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COVID-19 Expense Survey

Below is a short, completely anonymous survey to help ESTIMATE expenses incurred while producing crops during the COVID-19 pandemic from January 1 - June 30, 2020. This information will be shared with officials who will be proposing legislation to ensure growers receive adequate financial support for COVID-19 related expenses. 

Your input is critical.

Our aim is to protect the growers who produce the crops that feed our nation. Your responses at this time need only be good faith estimates of costs related to COVID-19. This information will be used to gauge the financial representation necessary to cover the impact of COVID-19 to southeastern fruit and vegetable growers in 2020.

If you did not incur costs because you worked with a Farm Labor Contractor, please forward this survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WTGMXCN.
1.Select the main STATE in which you operate:
2.How many workers did you employ between January 1 - June 30, 2020?
3.Estimate expenses incurred for additional COVID-19 related measures.
Estimate expenses incurred for each area. 
PPE (masks, gloves, handwash stations, sanitation systems, disinfectants, etc.)
Employee screening (thermometers, nurses, etc.)
Testing/testing kits (on farm or off sight medical facility)
Disinfecting/sanitation equipment and chemicals (living quarters, transportation, equipment, facilities, etc.)
Housing modifications (moving beds, barriers, addt’l amenities, etc.)
Additional housing for social distancing and/or isolation (purchase, construction, lease, rental, etc.)
Additional employee transportation costs
Additional distribution transportation costs
Additional employees due to change in work flow, distribution method, oversight, etc.
Packing/processing line modifications (literal alterations, barriers constructed, etc.)
Converting commercial-sized products to consumer-sized products
Additional/different packaging materials and labels due to different end market
Updating technology, software, and computers to allow for social distancing
Purchase or lease of additional/temporary space for holding, cold storage, etc.
Development and dissemination of COVID-19 related educational materials