Section 4 - Irrigation 
Include acres irrigated by all methods and from all water 
sources including those irrigated from lagoons through a 
sprinkler or flood system 
Section 5 
Agricultural Programs and Crop 
Insurance acres 
For conservation program cost shares, include the government’s 
share of the amount paid. Exclude any payments from loans or 
programs that must be repaid. 
Item 2 - Report all acres covered by any crop insurance policy 
in 2012. Include land in pasture insurance programs and acres 
covered by guaranteed revenue policies. 
Item 7 - Report amount received for commodities placed under 
CCC loan during 2012. Include amount received even if 
commodity was redeemed or forfeited prior to December 31, 
2012. Exclude CCC loans to build crop storage facilities. 
Item S - Report total amount repaid in 2012, regardless of the 
crop year the loan w'as made. 
IReporting value of sales! 
Report the value of all crops and livestock sold from this 
operation in 2012 in the appropriate commodity section. Report 
the sales in 2012 regardless of the year crops were harvested or 
raised. Include the value of your landlord’s share of the 
commodities harvested. Report commodities as sold that you 
owned and moved to someone else’s operation for further 
feeding, such as cattle. Report the gross value before the 
deduction of expenses, fees, or income taxes. Include payments 
received in 2012 from cooperatives or marketing organizations 
for crops produced on this operation regardless of the year in 
which the crops were harvested. Also, include as sales your 
estimate of the value of any crop or livestock removed from this 
operation in trade of services, such as baled hay for labor or 
other services. Report the total value you received for animals 
and poultry sold from this operation in 2012, without deducting 
production or marketing expenses (cost of feed, cost of livestock 
purchased, cost of hauling and selling, etc). 
Do NOT include . 
• Proceeds from CCC loans or other government payments. 
• The value of sales of any cattle, hogs, or poultry owned by 
you but kept and sold from a location you did not operate. 
• The value of commodities grown under a production 
contract. 
Section 8 | - Cut Christmas Trees, Short Rotation 
Woody Crops and Maple Syrup 
Item 2 - Acres in production of cut Christmas trees include both 
those to be harvested in future years as well as those harvested 
in 2012. Trees cut should include only those trees cut in 2012. 
Item 3 - A short rotation woody crop is a tree that is harvested 
in 10 years or less. These are trees for use by the paper or pulp 
industry or as engineered wood. Exclude trees cut for timber. 
Acres harvested in 2012 should be reported as having been both 
in production and harvested. Acres not harvested in 2012 
should be reported as acres in production but not as acres 
harvested. 
Item 4 - Producers should report number of taps and gallons of 
syrup. If sap was sold, estimate the number of gallons of syrup 
it would have produced. Report the acres of tapped maple trees 
in Section 2, Item 3, woodland not pastured. 
Section 9 
Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, 
Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagative 
Materials 
Report Christmas trees grown on this operation and sold live as 
nursery stock, code 0488. Exclude crops bought for resale 
without additional growing, and garden center items, such as 
chemicals and fertilizers. Report all acres of Christmas trees in 
production for cut Christmas trees and the number cut in 2012 in 
Section 8, Item 2. 
Section 10 1 - Vegetables, Potatoes, and Melons 
Item 3 - Report acres harvested for individual crops. If the same 
crop was planted more than once during the year on the same 
field, report the sum of the acres harvested during 2012. For 
example, if 4 acres were planted to lettuce and harvested, then 
replanted to lettuce and harvested, report 8 acres of lettuce in 
Item 3 but only 4 acres in Item 2. 
Section 11 - Frutt and Nuts 
Report fruit and nut trees only if there was a combined total of 
20 or more trees and vines, whose production was for sale. 
Exclude abandoned acres of orchards or vineyards that should 
be reported in Section 2, Item Id. Bearing age acres are the 
acres of trees or vines that produced any fruit or nut crop in 
2012 or previous years. If fruit and nut trees and vines were 
interplanted with other crops, report only the total acres for the 
orchard in Section 11, and the total acres of each interplanted 
crop in their appropriate section(s). 
Sections - Field Crops 
Section 12l - Berries 
Acres harvested - Enter the acres harvested in 2012. Round 
fractions to whole acres except for tobacco, where tenths should 
be reported. 
Total quantity harvested - If your unit of measure is different 
than the unit requested on the report form, convert your figure 
for the quantity harvested to the unit requested. If the harvest 
was incomplete by December 31, 2012, estimate the total 
quantity to be harvested. 
Acres irrigated - Report the irrigated harvested acres only once, 
even if the crop was irrigated multiple times during the growing 
season. 
Double cropping - If two or more crops were halves ted from the 
same land (double cropping), report the total acres and 
production of each harvested crop. 
Interplanted crops - If two crops were grown at the same time 
in alternating strips in the same field, report the acreage of the 
field used for each crop. 
Skip row planting - If a crop w'as planted in an alternating 
pattern of planted and non-planted rows, such as two row's 
planted and two rows skipped, report the acreage occupied by 
the crop and report the skipped portion as cropland idle in 
Section 2, Item Id. 
If you rented land under a share arrangement, include your 
landlord’s share of the crop in value of sales. 
section 7 - Hay and Forage Crops 
Include hay and forage from alfalfa, wild or native grasses, 
small grains, soybeans, and peanuts. Report production in tons. 
Any pasture or conservation land that had hay cut from it should 
be reported as cropland harvested in Section 2, Item la. 
Item 2 - Report all acres on which berries were grown in 2012 
for harvest in 2012 or later years. Do not include abandoned 
acres or acres harvested for home use. 
Sections 13, 14, and 18 1 - Cattle and Calves. Hogs and 
Pigs, and poultry 
Include all animals on this operation on December 31, 2012 
owned by you, raised by you under contract, or kept by you for 
otliers. Include animals on unfenced lands, National Forest land, 
Indian Reservation Land, cooperative grazing association land, 
or rangeland administered by the Bureau of Land Management 
on a per head, animal unit month (ALIM), or lease basis. 
Animals in transit on December 31, 2012, should be reported by 
the person who had control of the animals on that day. Report 
beefalo as cattle in Section 13. Report buffalo as bison in 
Section 20. 
Contract and custom feeding operations - Report numbers of 
all animals or poultry on this operation on December 31, 2012. 
Animals and poultry kept on a contract or custom basis and 
moved or sold from this operation in 2012 should be reported as 
sold. In addition, report in Section 21- Production Contracts and 
Custom Feeding on the appropriate line the quantity delivered of 
custom fed livestock or production contract livestock and 
poultry and the dollar amount received from the contractor in 
Section 21. Do NOT include fees received for commodities 
produced under production contract in the value of sales in 
Sections 6 - 20. 
Cattle , hogs, and poultry to exclude from the report form - 
Exclude animals or poultry kept on land rented to others or kept 
under a share arrangement on land rented to otliers. Exclude 
animals quartered in feedlots that were not located on this 
B - 50 APPENDIX B 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
