REFERENCE FARMS

DATA COLLECTION PROGRESS

AUSTRIA (17 farm types)

K. Pistrich(Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft)

has requested local farmers’ groups to name farms

DENMARK (4 farm types)

FINLAND (6 farm types)

SWEDEN (11 farm types)

Erling has finished interviews (?)

FRANCE (total 53 (?) farm types)

BELGIUMLUXEMBOURG

A. Pflimlin has contacted local advisers, but further questions before work can start

GERMANY EAST (5 farm types)

GERMANY WEST (22 farm types)

some interviews done, more lined up; difficulty to identify farms in some regions

GREECE (14 farm types)

interviews finished

IRELAND (18 farm types)

E. Bignal promised to contact farmers (all other contacts without success)

ITALY (61 farm types)

F. Di Iacovo / University of Pisacontacted for us M. Veronesi / APA(Associazione Provinciale Allevatóri)- first questionnaires to be expected in December

PORTUGAL (16 farm types)

T. Pinto Correia will arrange for interviews in January

SPAIN (60 farm types)

C. Lopez Garrido (Galicia) organises interviews; many contacts through previous survey- interviews should be finished in February

NETHERLANDS (6 farm types)

interviewing in progress (student, organised through Berien)

UNITED KINGDOM (29 farm types)

some interviews done, more lined up

REFERENCE FARM DATABASE

developed in Access by K. Buchan at Macaulay (in co-operation with M. Beek and M. Hilferink)

- first data entered

CONCLUSIONS:

• officials in some countries very reluctant to release addresses (data protection) - no problem in others

• some regions “survey-damaged” (e.g. UK after BSE, FMD, floods...)

• personal contacts invaluable

• difficulty to find particular farm types: how old are data?

(e.g., many farms changed production in last 5 years)