The Voice of Milk Question Title * 1. What state do you reside in? Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Question Title * 2. How old are you? 18-30 31 – 45 46 – 60 61 – 75 76+ Question Title * 3. How many years have you been dairying? 1 – 5 years 6 – 10 years 11 – 20 years 21 – 30 years 30+ years Question Title * 4. Are you a key decision maker on your dairy farm? Yes No Other (please specify) Question Title * 5. What is your gender? Male Female Question Title * 6. What’s your highest level of education? Some high school High school degree Some college Associates degree/certificate program or two-year college degree College or university degree Advanced degree Other (please specify) Question Title * 7. Do you actively manage raising your own young and replacement stock (calves, heifers), or do you only manage the milking herd? Manage raising our young and replacement stock Only manage the milking herd Mix of both Question Title * 8. In which of the following, if any, do you currently participate? Select all that apply. Beef on dairy programs Raise beef cattle Raise dairy steers Row crop farming Specialty crop farming Other (please specify) Question Title * 9. Do you consider your dairy farm to be small, midsized, or large? Small Midsized Large Question Title * 10. Regarding your dairy farm, over the next three years, do you plan to grow, maintain, shrink, or exit the business? Select only one response. Grow Maintain Shrink Exit Question Title * 11. How many cows are you currently milking? Question Title * 12. Please choose which of the following best describes how you market your milk. We do on farm processing of our milk We ship our milk to a local processor We ship our milk to a multi-state processor My farm is a combination of farm-owned (on-farm) and another processor Question Title * 13. Where do you ship the milk from your farm? (select all that apply) Private Processor Manufacturing dairy cooperative Marketing-only dairy cooperative Farmer-owned (on-farm) processing Other (please specify) 33% of survey complete. Next
