Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
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 
702 
(NA) 
19 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
65 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
614 
550 
16 
15 
4 
3 
- 
- 
Partnerships 
46 
42 
2 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corporations 
56 
52 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
46 
42 
7 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
387 
337 
17 
19 
2 
2 
- 
- 
2 operators 
315 
286 
8 
3 
2 
1 
- 
- 
3 operators 
40 
39 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
12 
15 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
8 
9 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
438 
357 
13 
5 
2 
1 
- 
- 
2 operators 
34 
32 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 operators 
5 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
1 
2 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
645 
505 
24 
16 
1 
3 
- 
- 
Dial-up 
73 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
310 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
62 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
18 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
77 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
143 
(NA) 
11 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
8 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
10 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
53 
58 
7 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
76,438 
290,912 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
679 
581 
24 
21 
4 
3 
_ 
_ 
2 households 
67 
81 
2 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 households 
12 
15 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 households 
2 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
2 
6 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
539 
464 
22 
16 
3 
2 
- 
- 
25 to 49 percent 
78 
53 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
64 
79 
2 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
43 
62 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
38 
28 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
--continued 
44 Alaska 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
