- State
The state for which the profile is being prepared.
- Commodity
The agricultural commodity for which the profile is being prepared.
- Year
The current year is automatically entered for this field.
- Preparer Name
Enter your name here.
- Preparer Address Line 1
- Preparer Address Line 2
- Preparer City/State/Zip
Your address information.
- Preparer Phone
Your phone number.
- State Rank
The national rank of the state based on total production of the
commodity. This information can usually be found through the National
Agricultural Statistics Service.
- State's Contribution
Your state's percentage of total national production of the
commodity.
- Acres Grown
The number of acres of the commodity planted in your state.
- Acres Harvested
The number of acres of the commodity eventually harvested in your state.
- Cash Value
The dollar value of the commodity in your state.
- Production Costs
The amount of money it takes to produce an acre of the commodity in your state.
- Commodity Destination
The commodity destination is the end-use of the agricultural commodity (fresh market, processing, etc.).
Enter the destination, and the percentage of the commodity that goes toward that end-use. You can enter as
many destinations as necessary. To remove a destination, click on the trash symbol.
- Production Regions
If the commodity is produced in distinct regions of the state,
with different cultural practices, describe the geographic boundaries of
those regions.
- Cultural Practices
Describe the cultural practices used for producing this commodity within
your state (e.g. Soil types, irrigation practices, land preparation, planting
times, thinning practices, etc.). Highlight intrastate or regional differences
if they exist. Feel free to type as much text into this box as necessary.
You will be able to scroll through all that you have written.
This is the screen where you list all the pests (diseases, weeds, insects, etc.) that are economically important to
the commodity in your state. You can enter as many pests as you need, one per line. To enter the rest of the
pest information required by a crop profile click the 
button and you will be taken to the Pest Info 1 screen. Click the trash can 
icon to remove a pest from the list. There are two fields you need to fill in for each pest:
- Pest Name
For pest name you should use the common name of the pest, with
the Latin name in parenthesis if clarification is necessary. It is also
acceptable to group related pests into a general group (such as "broadleaf weeds").
- Type of Pest
This is the general category of pest. Tabbing into this field activates
a pop-up list of the most common pest types (insect, mite, fungus,
bacteria, virus, nematode, weed). You can type in other types of pests as well,
for example, type in vertebrate if the pest in question is meadow vole on apple.
