9117 GRAIN STOCKS REPORT PROFILE 2024 October 2023

GRAIN STOCKS REPORT PROFILE 2024

OMB No. 0535-0007

Approval Expires: XX/XX/XXXX Project Code:

SurveyId: 9117

United States Department of Agriculture

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

Please make corrections to name, address and ZIP Code, if necessary.

USDA/NASS

National Operations Division

9700 Page Avenue, Suite 400

St. Louis, MO 63132-1547

Phone: 1-888-424-7828

Fax: 1-855-415-3687

Email: nass@usda.gov

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1. Please review the attached sheet. Verify that the list of facilities is correct and complete.

Does the attached sheet reflect your firm?

1 ^Yes 3 ^No

(Interviewer: If No, make appropriate deletions, additions, and/or capacity changes. Re-verify the list and continue.)

(Interviewer: For firms with one facility, skip to 1b; firms with more than one facility, continue)

1. Considering all the facilities and locations listed, how would this firm prefer to report? (Select one)

1 ^{Headquarters reports all facilities separately.}

2 ^{Headquarters reports combined total for all facilities.}

Does this operation store any commodities in other states?. . . . . . . . . ₁ [ ] Yes ₃ [ ] No

IF Yes, can you report totals by state? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ₁ [ ] Yes ₃ [ ] No

3 ^{Each facility reports individually.}

4 ^{Some other combination.}

Please list which sites this operation would like combined for reporting purposes.

2. Does this firm lease additional storage capacity from another firm not listed?

1 ^Yes 3 ^No

(Interviewer: IF Yes, document locations and capacities to listing)

3. Will this firm exclude commodities in storage leased from another licensed grain elevator?

1 ^Yes 3 ^No

(Interviewer: IF Yes, Firms should exclude grain stored at another firm.)

(Interviewer: IF No, please explain: ________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________)

4. Does this firm lease storage capacity to another firm not listed?

1 ^Yes 3 ^No

(Interviewer: IF Yes, document locations and capacities to listing)

5. Will this firm report commodities in storage leased to another licensed grain elevator?

1 ^Yes 3 ^No

(Interviewer: IF Yes, Firms should include grain stored in their facilities regardless of ownership.)

(Interviewer: IF No, please explain: ________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________)

2. What is the total rated storage capacity of all facilities that will be reported by your firm?

INCLUDE:

• capacity of all lines if this is a Headquarters unit or a Multi-unit firm where total quantity stored from all lines are reported

• total capacity of whole grains, pulse crops and oilseeds operated by your firm

• capacity for structures normally used such as ground piles (temporarily stored) or warehouses

• both bulk and sacked capacity in the rated storage capacity

EXCLUDE storage capacity leased from another licensed grain elevator.

STORAGE CAPACTIY	UNIT (Circle one)
	1 Bu.	2 Lbs.	3 Tons	4 Cwt.

3. Does this firm expect to store any of the following commodities during the next 12 months? Include all facilities.

INCLUDE:

• all whole grains, pulse crops and oilseeds stored in your facilities and/or piles (temporarily stored) regardless of ownership for farmers, elevators, millers, processors, farmer owned reserve, under loan, and the Government Commodity Credit Corporation

• grain to be used for seed

• both domestic and imported stocks

EXCLUDE grain owned that is stored at another licensed grain elevator.

Crops Collected Every Quarter:	Other Crops Collected During the Year:
Durum Wheat	Sunflower (oil varieties)
Wheat Other than Durum	Sunflower (non-oil varieties)
Barley	Small Chickpeas (Garbanzo Beans that pass through a 20/64 inch round hole screen)
Oats	Large Chickpeas (Garbanzo Beans larger than the 20/64 inch round hole screen)
Whole Corn	Dry Edible Peas (Including Austrian Winter Peas and Wrinkled Seed Peas
Sorghum Grain	Lentils
Soybeans	Flaxseed
	Canola
	Rapeseed
	Mustard Seed
	Safflower

1 ^Yes 3 ^No

Next, we would like to discuss some reporting guidelines for the quarterly Grain Stocks Report:

Each quarter in March, June, September, and December, your firm will be asked to report stocks the 1^st of the month, or as accurate as possible relative to the 1^st of the month.

Each quarter we will mail this operation a quarterly Grain Stocks Report to complete. We will also include a copy of the reporting instructions for reference. This operation may also fill this report out on the Internet. Instructions will be made available as to how to access the report. If you have any other reporting preferences, please indicate below.

4. Which method would this firm prefer to report? (Select one)

_{1 Mail}

_{2 Telephone}

_{3 Web (via agcounts.usda.gov)}

_{4 Fax}

_{5 Email (spreadsheet, PDF, etc.)}

5. Who will be the primary contact at this operation for completing the quarterly Grain Stocks Report?

Name:			Position:
Telephone: (	Check if cell phone )		Fax: ( )
Email:

6. Who will be the alternate contact at this operation for completing the quarterly Grain Stocks Report?

Name:			Position:
Telephone: (	Check if cell phone )		Fax: ( )
Email:

Thank you so much for your assistance today and for your continued help in completing the Grain Stocks Report Profile. If you have any questions, feel free to contact our office using our toll-free number. [If you did not interview the primary contact, ask to speak with the primary contact and take some time to review the reporting instructions with them.]

Respondent Name: Respondent Phone

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check if cell phone

9910 MM DD YY Date:

This completes the survey. Thank you for your help.

OFFICE USE ONLY
Response		Respondent		Mode		Enum.	Eval.	Change	Office Use for POID
1-Comp 2-R 3-Inac 4-Office Hold 5-R – Est 6-Inac – Est 7-Off Hold – Est	9901	1-Op/Mgr 2-Spouse 3-Acct/Bkpr 4-Partner 9-Other	9902	PASI (Mail) PATI (Tel) PAPI (Face-to- Face) 6-Email 7-Fax 19-Other	9903	9998	9900	9985	9989 - -
									Optional Use
									9921	9907	9908	9906	9916
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