QID 090282 Dairy Product Prices Cheddar Cheese

Project 934 QID 090282				OMB No. 0535-0020 Approval Expires 01/31/2011
	DAIRY PRODUCTS PRICES CHEDDAR CHEESE Week Ending Saturday______________					NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
	Report by noon on Wednesday unless a Federal Holiday falls on Tuesday or Wednesday. In this case, NASS will contact you by email or telephone concerning the report deadline.				National Agricultural Statistics Service U.S. Department of Agriculture, Room 5030, South Building 1400 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20250-2000 Phone: 1-800-727-9540 Fax: 202-264-3772 Email: nass@nass.usda.gov
Please make corrections to name, address and Zip Code, if necessary.			USDA NASS collects weekly information on cheddar cheese sales and prices to be published in the Dairy Products Prices Release. The information you provide is important to establish U.S. Cheddar cheese prices used in setting minimum class prices under the Federal milk order program. An accurate response to this survey is mandatory and subject to verification by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) under Public Law No. 106-532. This law specifically protects the confidentiality of your report from public disclosure except as directed by the US Secretary of Agriculture or the US Attorney General for enforcement purposes to ensure compliance with the Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting program.

Report:

• Cheddar cheese in 40 pound blocks, colored between 6 and 8 on the National Cheese Institute color chart, meeting Wisconsin State Brand and/or USDA Grade A or better standards.

• Cheddar cheese in 500 pound barrels, white, meeting Wisconsin State Brand and/or USDA Extra Grade or better standards.

• Price as either f.o.b. plant if the product is “shipped out” from a plant or f.o.b. storage facility if the product is “shipped out” from a storage facility.

• Complete transactions, i.e. cheddar cheese is “shipped out” and title transfer occurs.

• Sales of cheddar cheese 4 to 30 days of age.

• For 40 pound block cheddar cheese, price reflecting packaging costs for cheese wrapped in a sealed, airtight package in corrugated or solid fiberboard container with a reinforcing inner liner or sleeve. Exclude all other packaging costs from the reported price.

Do Not Deduct:

• Brokerage fees paid by the manufacturer.

• Clearing charges paid by the manufacturer.

Exclude:

• Forward pricing sales: sales in which the selling price is established (and not adjusted) 30 or more days before the transaction is completed.

• Intra-company sales of cheddar cheese.

• Re-sales of purchased cheddar cheese.

• Cheddar cheese certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.

• Sales of cheddar cheese produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer’s wholesale market price for the basic commodity

(for example, kosher cheese produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process).

• Sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) or other premium assisted sales

(example: export assistance sales through the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) program).

• 40 pound block cheddar cheese to be aged.

• 500 pound barrel cheddar cheese packaging costs.

• 500 pound barrel cheddar cheese with moisture content above 37.7%.

Records:

• Each person required to report information on this survey shall maintain, and make available to the US Secretary of Agriculture office on request, original contracts, agreements, receipts, and other records associated with the sale of qualified dairy products during the two-year period beginning on the date of the creation of the records.

Section 1 – Cheddar Cheese Sales

For the Week Ending Saturday ___________________
1. Plant Location	Pounds of Cheddar		Total Dollars OR Dollars / lb.		Moisture Content *
500 lb. Barrels	Rounded to the Nearest Pound		Rounded to the Nearest Dollar	Rounded to the Nearest Hundredth of a Cent	Weighted Average: Rounded to the Nearest Hundredth of a Percent
	511	lb.	521 $	531 $ . __ __ __ __	541 __ __ . __ __ %
	512	lb.	522 $	532 $ . __ __ __ __	542 __ __ . __ __%
	513	lb.	523 $	533 $ . __ __ __ __	543 __ __ . __ __%
40 lb. Blocks	Rounded to the Nearest Pound		Rounded to the Nearest Dollar	Rounded to the Nearest Hundredth of a Cent
	611	lb.	621 $	631 $ . __ __ __ __
	612	lb.	622 $	632 $ . __ __ __ __
	613	lb.	623 $	633 $ . __ __ __ __
* NASS will adjust price to benchmark of 38.0% based on standard moisture adjustment formulas
Section 2 – Other Information						Yes 1	No 3
1. Do you understand the instructions and requirements of this questionnaire? 2693						O	O
2. Do you need any additional explanation of any definition or question on this form? 2694 If yes, a NASS representative will contact you to discus the Dairy Product Prices reporting specifications.						O	O

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Section 3 – General Comments (If necessary, attach additional comment sheets)

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