EMASSCRAFT Baseline Data Form

EMASSCRAFT > Baseline Datasheet Form

This form is a guide for sharing information about your farm. Please fill it out with as much detail as possible in order to provide a context for your farm visit. (or Download a blank Form, fill it out, and email it back to the webmaster.)

Physical Description:

1. Describe briefly the physical setting of the farm(i.e. the topographical setting and structures)

2. Describe existing structures, including current and original usage.

3. Total acreage
4. Tillable acreage
5. Acreage in vegetables in 2002
6. Soil type by field
7. First frost date
8. Last frost date
9. Average first date of tillage
10. Use of remaining land

Farm History:
11. When was the farm founded?

12. Who owns the land, Does the farmer live on the land?
13. What is the primary mission of the farm?

Farmer History:
14. Number of years as a farmer
15. Number of years as a farmer at this farm
16. Occupation prior to farming
17. Why did you become a farmer?

18. How did you learn how to farm?

Distribution:
19. Describe the distribution system you use

20. Total number of pounds( or $) distributed in 2001

Budget:
21. Total gross farm income
22. % of entire farm budget devoted to labor costs(including the farmer)
23. Who develops and controls the annual budget?

Equipment and Mechanization:
24. Who owns the equipment?
25. List of tractors with H.P.
26. List of cultivation equipment and usage
27. List seeding equipment
28. Irrigation Equipment: Overhead or Drip
            Pipe Diameter/Pipe Length
            Sprinklers/Fittings, How many?
            Area of coverage/Acreage covered in one set up
            Pump description
            Water Source?

Greenhouses:
29. Do you have a greenhouse?
30. Describe greenhouse?
31. What % of transplants do you grow?
32. When is the greenhouse used and for what?

33. What are your heating costs/year?
34. Who manages it?

Labor:
35. Number of people employed year round(inc. farmer)
36. Number employed in season
37. Total labor hours employed over a year(inc. all farmer hours)
38. Type of labor used(i.e. apprentice, worker, volunteer, etc.)
39. How do you find help
40. Compensation and benefits for labor
41. Is housing offered

Animals:
42. What types of livestock do you have?
43. Size of flocks, herds, etc.?
44. How is the meat marketed?
45. How is the milk marketed?
46. Do you cut hay, how is it stored/sold?
47. How are animals integrated into the overall farm?
48. Do you sell any value added animal products?

Fruit:
49. What types of fruit do you grow?
50. How is it marketed?


Fertility:
51. How do you manage your overall farm fertility?