ABSTRACT

The previous chapter portrayed an extensive spreadsheet. Unfortunately, the average questionnaire or survey mailed to participants is usually much shorter than desired to gain information. The ideal questionnaire fully re ects or asks participants for accurate data that ful ll all sections of the spreadsheet. Unfortunately, a questionnaire such as this would take pages of inquiry (questions with examples) and constitute many more hours to complete than the average grower(s) would provide. A truncated questionnaire has the best chance of being completed and returned. Thus, the following questionnaire is one that has been greatly shortened, from a much longer originally conceived questionnaire, and used to survey an Iowa organization comprising farmers growing identity-preserved crops such as ultra-low linolenic soybeans, both genetically modi ed organism (GMO) and non-GMO varieties. For some farmers this represents a double stack trait variety: the rst being ultra-low linolenic and the second being that it is a non-GMO. So for some farmers in this group this could be considered double identity preservation (IP) for the two traits of interest (non-GMO and ultra-low linolenic traits).