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  • From: "road's end farm" <organic101@linkny.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Agricultural Census
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:19:40 -0500

If you're not actually farming you may not need to do this at all; just follow the instructions for "never farmed" and send it back having just filled that out. I'm not sure how they define "farming" for purposes of the survey, though. There is a phone number in tiny print in the upper right hand corner of the instruction sheet, 1-888-424-7828; you could call them and ask them.

I'm not sure how they mean you to figure small areas; but what I would do is take the entire area the trees are using (root zone, access aisles, etc); figure it in square feet; divide by 43,560 to turn square feet into acres; round to the nearest tenth. So if you've got 20 trees on say 12 foot spacing, say in 2 rows 16' apart, you'd get: 32 feet times 120 feet = 3840, divide by 43,560 is roughly .088, call it 1/10 acre?

If you do call them and they tell you to figure it out some other way please let me know, I figure small areas for a lot of crops in that fashion for a lot of surveys --

Rivka

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:53 PM, Mauch1@aol.com wrote:

First the census question:
I recieved a census form from the USDA to report what I'm
growing. Any suggestions on how to estimate acreage per tree.
The form requires me to report what I'm growing by the 1/10 of
an acre. Don't know for sure how I was lucky enough to get on
this survey :-)





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