1. REFERENCE FARMS DATA COLLECTION PROGRESS

2. AUSTRIA (17 farm types) K. Pistrich (Bundesanstalt für Agrarwirtschaft) has requested local farmers’ groups to name farms

3. DENMARK (4 farm types) FINLAND (6 farm types) SWEDEN (11 farm types) Erling has finished interviews (?)

4. FRANCE (total 53 (?) farm types) BELGIUM LUXEMBOURG A. Pflimlin has contacted local advisers, but further questions before work can start

5. GERMANY EAST (5 farm types) GERMANY WEST (22 farm types) some interviews done, more lined up; difficulty to identify farms in some regions

6. GREECE (14 farm types) interviews finished

7. IRELAND (18 farm types) E. Bignal promised to contact farmers (all other contacts without success)

8. ITALY (61 farm types) F. Di Iacovo / University of Pisa contacted for us M. Veronesi / APA (Associazione Provinciale Allevatóri) - first questionnaires to be expected in December

9. PORTUGAL (16 farm types) T. Pinto Correia will arrange for interviews in January

10. SPAIN (60 farm types) C. Lopez Garrido (Galicia) organises interviews; many contacts through previous survey - interviews should be finished in February

11. NETHERLANDS (6 farm types) interviewing in progress (student, organised through Berien)

12. UNITED KINGDOM (29 farm types) some interviews done, more lined up

13. REFERENCE FARM DATABASE developed in Access by K. Buchan at Macaulay (in co-operation with M. Beek and M. Hilferink) - first data entered

14. 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...)

15. personal contacts invaluable difficulty to find particular farm types: how old are data? (e.g., many farms changed production in last 5 years)