Statistics New Zealand, Tatauranga Aotearoa

Thank you for completing the 2022 Agricultural Production Census

Thank you for taking time to complete the Agricultural Production Census. Results from the 2022 Agricultural Production Census will provide up-to-date information on this important industry. Provisional results will be released in December 2022 on our website. The statistics produced will be used for planning and decision-making by both the private and the public sectors.

Help to complete the questionnaire

The questionnaire includes instructions you need to help you complete the census. The guide notes below contain additional information to help you answer the questions in the census. Please read the sections that are relevant to your farm.

If you are looking for help using the online questionnaire, please refer to the frequently asked questions tab.

If you need additional help with completing the census, require extra questionnaires, or consider you are no longer involved in farming or forestry, please contact us: 0800 809 464 or ag@stats.govt.nz.

Guide notes

If you have leased, sold, or purchased a farm

If you are a high-country run holder

If you are involved in forestry, or lease land

If you are grazing livestock

If you grow vegetable seeds

If urea, potassic superphosphate (potash super) or superten fertilisers were applied on the farm

For further information about the Agricultural Production Census and completing the questionnaire visit www.stats.govt.nz/help-with-surveys/business-survey-information/

If you have sold, leased or purchased a farm

If you have sold, leased or otherwise disposed of your farm and have a new farm, complete a questionnaire for the farm your farming business was operating at 30 June 2022.

If you are a high-country run holder

Land use: If you have grazing land which was not being used (eg, above the snow line) at 30 June 2022, please ensure the area is included under the item tussock and danthonia used for grazing. If you have land on your farm (eg, ridge lines) which cannot be used at any time of the year, and is not plantation, bush, etc, include this land under all other land.

If you are involved in forestry, or lease land

Land use and Forestry: These questions are to be completed by all farmers and forestry companies. Please include all land you own or land leased from others as well as any land for which you had cutting rights at 30 June 2022. Do not include land leased to or used by others.

If you have plantation area that has been clear-felled or salvage-logged and the area is to be replanted, include the area under harvested exotic forest area awaiting restocking. If the logged area is awaiting a land use change, include the area under all other land.

Please only include all forested land that is intended for harvest, whatever the type or for whatever purpose it is being used and record these in the appropriate place(s) in the land use table.

If you are grazing livestock

If you owned livestock which were grazing on someone else’s farm at 30 June 2022 do not include these animals with your on-farm count (eg, in the case of dairy animals, in ‘Dairy cattle').

•   Remember to include these animals in ‘Grazing'.

•   Remember to include offspring born on the farm during the year in the relevant question.

If you were grazing livestock from another farm(s) on your farm at 30 June 2022, include these animals with your on-farm count (eg, ‘Dairy cattle'). Remember to also include these animals in ‘Grazing’.

 If you grow vegetable seeds

The area grown in the year ended 30 June 2022 should be recorded in  'Grain and seed crops’.

If potassic superphosphate (potash super) or superten fertilisers were applied on the farm

Please note that the fertiliser information needed to complete this questionnaire can be retrieved from:

• Ballance’s  customers can log into their MyBallance account, via www.myballance.co.nz to access "My Reports - STATS NZ Survey", or
• Ravensdown’s  ‘Summary of Fertiliser Purchased’  report or from www.ravensdown.co.nz.

For farmers who do not have access to rebate notices, information for super phosphate and potassium chloride and/or potassium sulphate could be derived based on the following basic guidelines.

For example,  if you purchased 100 tonnes of 10% Potash Super or Superten 5K, then:

• Potassium Chloride/Sulphate  = 10 tonnes, and
• Superphosphate = 90 tonnes.

Please contact our Survey Help Desk: 0800 809 464 or ag@stats.govt.nz if you have any queries.

Thank you for your time and effort.