Table 5. Farms With Sales of $10,000 or More: 1982 and 1978 



[Excludes abnormal (wm*) 



Fanns - numbef. 



Land m farms awes- 



Average size ot farm acres. 



Value ol land and buildings': 



Average per farm — dollars. 



Average per acre ..doUara-. 



Farms by size: 



1 to 9 acre* — 



10 to 49 acres 



50 to 179 acres 



180 10 499 acres 



500 10 999 acres 



1.000 10 1.999 acres — . 



2.000 acres or more - 



Land in (arms according to use: 



Total cropland farms.. 



acres.. 



Harvested cropland farms.. 



acres.. 



Imgated land farms.. 



acres.. 



Tenure of operator 



Full owrwrs 



Part owners 



Tenants 



Operators tr/ prirvapai occupatiorv 



Farming 



Other man farmino . 



Estimated martiet value ol all machinery and 



equipment' $1.000.. 



Average per farm dollars., 



MarVel value ot agricuttural products sold $1,000.. 



Average per farm doHars.. 



Oops. iTKluding nursery and greenliouae 



products -- $1,000. 



JvestocK. poultry, and ttwr products $1,000. 



Poultry and poultry products $1,000. 



Dairy products $1,000. 



2 404 



401 419 



167 



304 572 



1 962 



2B1 

 57S 

 B35 



671 



117 



19 



6 



2 281 

 198 000 



2 218 



156 812 



704 



16 717 



1 234 



853 

 217 



1 971 

 433 



111 814 

 46 823 



271 666 

 113 006 



133 825 



137 740 



25 236 



78 834 



'Data are based on a sarr^ of farms- 



>Data for 1978 irtdude the cost of lime wfuch was not collected in 1982. 



2 222 



401 577 



181 



259 290 

 1 382 



251 

 429 

 796 

 607 



lis 



20 



4 



2 106 



200 533 



2 046 



ISO 761 



603 



IS 306 



1 103 

 942 

 177 



1 887 

 335 



88 167 

 39 572 



202 133 

 90 969 



94 119 



106 014 



18 156 



60 821 



Item 



Selected farm production expenses': 



Livestock and poultry purchased $1.000.. 



Feed for Irvestock arra poultry $1.000.. 



Seeds, bulbs, plants, and trees $1.000.. 



Commercial lerljlizer $1.000.. 



Other agncutlural chemicals' $1,000.. 



Hired farm labor $1.000.. 



Energy and petroleum products $1.000.. 



Interest expense $1.000.. 



Cattle and calves Invantny . 

 Beef co«n 



rxjmber.. 



farms.. 



number.. 



Milk cowa farms.. 



number.. 



Hogs arid pigs inventrxy farms.. 



number.. 



Chickens 3 months old or oWer inventory farms. 



number.. 



Com lor grain or aeed 



acres.. 

 txishels.. 



Com lor silage or gre^«tigp farms.. 



acres.. 

 Green weight..tons.. 



Irish potatoes farms. . 



acres., 

 cwu. 



Hav— alfalfa. otf>er tame, snwll grain, wild, graas 

 silage, green chop, etc. larrns. 



acres. 

 Vegetat)les harvested for sale farms. 



acres. 

 Land m orchards farms. 



acres. 



1978 



Appendix. Effect Of the Area Sample on Census Comparability 



The 1982 and 1978 Censuses were conducted 

 primarily by mail. Despite every effort to assemble a 

 complete list, a small portion of the Nation's farms were 

 not included on the census mail list. To improve the 

 coverage of the 1978 Census, especially in counting the 

 number of small farms, the mail-out/mail-back 

 enumeration was supplemented by the direct 

 enumeration of all households in a sample of areas in 

 all States, except Alaska and Hawaii. Due to budget 

 reductions, the direct enumeration sample was 

 eliminated in the 1982 Census. 



In late 1978, enumerators visited all households in 

 approximately 6,400 segments in rural areas (areas with 

 less than 2,500 population) and completed a census 

 form for each agricultural operation. These forms were 

 then matched to the census mail list. Data from those 

 cases which were not matched to the mail list were 

 used to estimate the number and characteristics of 

 farms not on the mail list at the State, regional, and 

 national levels. No county-level estimates were 

 developed because the area sample size was 

 insufficient for reliable estimates at that level. 



The U.S., region, and State data for 1978 shown in 

 the 1976 Census of Agriculture publications included 

 data for farms represented on the mail list plus 

 estimates from the area sample for farms not on the 

 mail list. To provide comparable data for 1982 and 

 1978, estimates from the area sample have been 

 subtracted from the 1978 data. Thus, all 1978 data 

 presented in the 1982 Census of Agriculture publications 

 include data only for farms on the 1978 mail list. 



In 1978, the area sample farms accounted for 9 

 percent of all farms in the United States, but only 1 

 percent of the total value of agricultural products sold 

 and 1 percent of the land in farms. The area sample 

 farms represented 25 percent of all farms with sales of 

 less than $2,500. The contribution of the area sample 

 farms to the total farm count varied widely by State, 

 from a low of 2.0 percent in North Dakota to a high of 

 23.8 percent in New Hampshire. 



The following table shows the 1982 results and 

 adjusted 1978 data for farms on the mail list, as well as 

 1978 data which include estimates for farms not on the 

 mail list 



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