Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Partnership 
Item 
Total 
Family or 
Registered 
individual 
Total 
under 
state law 
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 
farms 
5,689 
4,663 
483 
406 
acres 
391,397 
258,511 
55,009 
43,937 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
1,068 
673 
369 
353 
acres 
107,277 
61,022 
(D) 
38,633 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
4,663 
4,663 
- 
- 
acres 
258,511 
258,511 
- 
- 
Partnership 
farms 
612 
- 
612 
529 
acres 
69,996 
- 
69,996 
56,582 
Registered under state law 
farms 
529 
- 
529 
529 
acres 
56,582 
56,582 
56,582 
Corporation 
farms 
523 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
84,454 
- 
- 
- 
Family held 
farms 
439 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
73,621 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
6 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
433 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held 
farms 
84 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
10,833 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
5 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
79 
- 
- 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
179 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
23,578 
- 
- 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
1,704 
990 
279 
251 
workers 
13,713 
4,304 
2,546 
2,430 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
1,078 
531 
186 
166 
workers 
6,663 
1,766 
953 
887 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
1,149 
683 
195 
181 
workers 
7,050 
2,538 
1,593 
1,543 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
farms 
79 
30 
16 
14 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
3 
1 
1 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
3,261 
2,561 
378 
319 
workers 
8,319 
6,178 
1,104 
932 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
1,768 
1,429 
139 
124 
1 0 to 49 acres 
2,403 
1,973 
202 
168 
50 to 69 acres 
460 
356 
46 
44 
70 to 99 acres 
389 
283 
67 
62 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
279 
207 
36 
30 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
189 
135 
25 
19 
180 to 219 acres 
142 
105 
14 
13 
220 to 259 acres 
60 
41 
9 
7 
260 to 499 acres 
177 
100 
42 
36 
500 to 999 acres 
67 
22 
23 
20 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
29 
9 
7 
5 
2,000 acres or more 
14 
3 
2 
1 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
78 
58 
10 
9 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
574 
479 
44 
41 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1 1 13) 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
270 
174 
48 
45 
production (1 1 14) 
1,115 
808 
113 
105 
Other crop farming (1 1 19) 
1,007 
854 
86 
63 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
39 
22 
7 
7 
Cotton farming (11192) 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
“ 
" 
“ 
“ 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
968 
832 
79 
56 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
693 
617 
33 
29 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
6 
6 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
146 
80 
41 
33 
Hog and pig farming (1 122) 
160 
139 
18 
12 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
175 
130 
32 
24 
Sheep and goat farming (1 124) 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
246 
222 
20 
14 
production (1125, 1129) 
1,507 
1,096 
167 
154 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
1,452 
1,209 
142 
119 
number 
48,278 
(D) 
(D) 
11,630 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
887 
795 
52 
40 
1 0 to 49 
418 
343 
38 
35 
50 to 99 
56 
29 
21 
20 
100 to 199 
38 
26 
9 
6 
See footnote(s) at end of table. 
-continued 
148 Connecticut 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
