FOOD Survey for Farmers

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Survey Questions

  • How long have you been farming?
  • How much land do you farm?
  • Do you grow just for yourself? Commercially?
  • How many years commercially?
  • What economic form do you prefer: market, community based non-market?
  • Do you grow organically? Conventionally?
  • What crops do you grow?
  • What other crops have you tried to grow (unsuccessfully)?
  • How many people do you estimate you can feed from the acreage you farm?
  • How many people does it take to produce your crops?
  • Do you use season-extending methods? If so, what?
  • Do you produce value-added products to sell? If so, what?
  • What are your energy sources? What do you use for tillage, water pumping, transportation?
  • Do you use tractors? Other machinery? Animal power?
  • If you use animal power, how much forage/feed supplement does it take for one animal? Do you grow this yourself?
  • What percentage of your time do you estimate you use to farm?
  • If there were better markets for your crops, would you like to farm more? Do you have more land to put into production?