Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbois, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race - Con. 
Operators 
Characteristics 
Native Hawaiian 
or other 
Pacific Islander 
White 
reporting 
more than 
one race 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
Farms by- 
Type of organization (see text): 
Operation with 50 percent or more ownership 
interest held by operator and/or persons 
related by blood, marriage, or adoption 
- 
(NA) 
674 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
- 
(NA) 
62 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
- 
- 
590 
530 
4 
2 
Partnerships 
- 
- 
44 
39 
- 
- 
Corporations 
- 
- 
52 
52 
1 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
39 
35 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
364 
315 
4 
1 
2 operators 
- 
- 
305 
282 
- 
- 
3 operators 
- 
- 
37 
36 
1 
1 
4 operators 
- 
- 
12 
15 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
7 
8 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
419 
350 
4 
1 
2 operators 
- 
- 
33 
31 
1 
1 
3 operators 
- 
- 
5 
5 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
- 
- 
615 
485 
5 
1 
Dial-up 
- 
(NA) 
71 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
DSL service 
- 
(NA) 
298 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
- 
(NA) 
58 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
- 
(NA) 
17 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
- 
(NA) 
76 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
- 
(NA) 
131 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
- 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
- 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
- 
- 
46 
52 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
_ 
_ 
646 
555 
5 
2 
2 households 
- 
- 
65 
77 
- 
- 
3 households 
- 
- 
11 
15 
- 
- 
4 households 
- 
- 
2 
3 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
- 
- 
1 
6 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
- 
- 
509 
444 
5 
2 
25 to 49 percent 
- 
- 
77 
52 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
- 
- 
62 
71 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
- 
40 
62 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
- 
- 
37 
27 
- 
- 
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