Table 58. Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino Origin Principal Operators - Selected Farm Characteristics: 
2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Characteristics 
2012 
2007 
Characteristics 
2012 
2007 
FARMS AND LAND IN FARMS 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY 
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) - Con. 
Farms number 
81 
61 
Land in farms acres 
4,362 
3,031 
Other crop farming (1119) - Con. 
FARMS BY SIZE 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, 
and all other crop farming 
1 to 9 acres 
37 
20 
(11193, 11194, 11199) 
5 
13 
1 0 to 49 acres 
25 
25 
50 to 1 79 acres 
9 
10 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
7 
8 
1 80 to 499 acres 
10 
6 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
- 
1 
Flog and pig farming (1122) 
- 
- 
OWNED AND RENTED LAND IN FARMS 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
14 
4 
Owned land in farms farms 
79 
53 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
- 
3 
acres 
3,827 
2,093 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
Rented or leased land in farms farms 
10 
16 
production (1125, 1129) 
21 
23 
acres 
535 
938 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
TENURE 
Farms by- 
Full owners farms 
71 
45 
Type of organization (see text): 
acres 
2,984 
1,843 
Organization with 50 percent or more 
Part owners farms 
8 
8 
ownership interest held by operator and/or 
acres 
(D) 
883 
persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption 
68 
(NA) 
Tenants farms 
2 
8 
acres 
(D) 
305 
Limited Liability Corporation (see text) 
15 
(NA) 
MARKET VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
Operation's legal status for tax 
SOLD AND GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS 
purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
48 
45 
Total farms 
81 
61 
Partnerships 
20 
11 
$1,000 
1,366 
378 
Corporations 
5 
5 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
Market value of agricultural products 
institutional, etc 
8 
- 
sold farms 
81 
61 
$1,000 
1,350 
375 
Number of operators: 
Crops, including nursery 
1 operator 
33 
19 
and greenhouse crops farms 
39 
23 
2 operators 
39 
39 
$1,000 
922 
139 
3 operators 
9 
- 
Livestock, poultry, and 
4 operators 
- 
3 
their products farms 
38 
36 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
$1,000 
429 
236 
Government payments farms 
6 
3 
Number of women operators: 
$1,000 
16 
3 
1 operator 
47 
42 
2 operators 
1 
- 
FARMS BY ECONOMIC CLASS 
3 operators 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
Less than $1 ,000 
30 
17 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
$1,000 to $2,499 
6 
3 
$2,500 to $4,999 
14 
12 
Farms reporting- 
$5,000 to $9,999 
15 
19 
Internet access 
64 
41 
$10,000 to $24,999 
2 
8 
Dial-up service 
1 
(NA) 
$25,000 to $49,999 
6 
1 
DSL service 
27 
(NA) 
$50,000 or more 
8 
1 
Cable modem service 
36 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
2 
(NA) 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION (CCC) LOANS 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer 
AND FEDERAL FARM PROGRAM PAYMENTS 
or a cell phone 
17 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
- 
(NA) 
CCC loans (see text) farms 
- 
- 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
6 
(NA) 
$1,000 
- 
- 
Other Internet service 
- 
(NA) 
Conservation Reserve, Wetlands Reserve, Farmable 
Wetlands, or Conservation Reserve Enhancement 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
14 
7 
Programs payments farms 
- 
- 
acres 
204 
(D) 
$1,000 
- 
- 
Other Federal farm program 
Farms by number of households sharing 
payments farms 
6 
3 
in net income of farm: 
$1,000 
16 
3 
1 household 
70 
54 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY 
2 households 
9 
7 
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) 
3 households 
- 
- 
4 households 
- 
- 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
2 
- 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
11 
3 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
5 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
total household income from farming: 
production (1114) 
18 
6 
Less than 25 percent 
68 
52 
25 to 49 percent 
6 
5 
Other crop farming (1119) 
5 
13 
50 to 74 percent 
7 
1 
Tobacco farming (1 1 191) 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
1 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
1 00 percent 
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USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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