• Chukars inventory and number sold or moved 
• Guineas inventory and number sold or moved 
• Hungarian partridge inventory and number sold 
or moved 
• Peacocks or peahens inventory and number sold 
or moved 
• Rheas inventory and number sold or moved 
• Roosters inventory and number sold or moved 
• Type of poultry hatched 
• Largest number of bee colonies owned for all 
purposes 
• Largest number of honey producing bee colonies 
owned 
• Owned horses sold 
• Value of owned horses sold 
• Type of equine operation, including race track, 
boarding, training, riding facility, breeding 
service place, not a boarding facility but horses 
kept for others’ personal use, or other 
Items listed individually in the 2012 report form that 
were reported in conjunction with similar livestock 
or poultry items on the 2007 report form include: 
• Milk from cows, value of sales 
• Sheep and lambs value of sales 
• Angora goats and kids value of sales 
• Milk goats and kids value of sales 
• Meat goats and kids and other goats and kids 
value of sales 
• Wool shorn value of sales 
• Mohair clipped value of sales 
• Milk from sheep and goats value of sales 
• Horses and ponies owned value of sales 
• Horses and ponies not owned value of sales 
• Horse breeding and stud fees, including semen 
and other equine products 
• Mules, burros, and donkeys value of sales 
• Alpacas value of sales 
• Llamas value of sales 
• Bison value of sales 
• Deer in captivity value of sales 
• Elk in captivity value of sales 
• Live mink and their value of sales 
• Live rabbits and their value of sales 
• Honey value of sales 
• Bantams 
• Turkeys raised for meat production and turkey 
brooders 
Economic, Energy, Land Use Practices, 
Selected Practices, Organic, Operator 
Characteristics, and Type of 
Organization/Legal Status Data Changes 
Deleted items include: 
• Use of more than 500 gallons of water in any one 
day for any purpose 
• Barns built before 1960 
• Organic cropland harvested 
• Sales for organic crops 
• Acres used for organic production 
Added items include: 
• US DA NOP certified or exempt organic 
commodities value of sales 
• Number of unpaid workers 
• Layers moved under production contracts and 
amount received 
• Replacement dairy heifers moved under 
production contracts and amount received 
• Renewable energy producing systems, including 
solar panels, wind turbines, methane digesters, 
geoexchange systems, small hydro systems, 
biodiesel, and ethanol 
• Wind rights leased to others 
• Acres drained by tile 
• Acres artificially drained by ditches 
• Acres under a conservation easement 
• Cropland acres on which no-till practices were 
used 
• Cropland acres on which conservation tillage, 
excluding no-till, practices were used 
• Cropland acres on which conventional tillage 
practices were used 
• Cropland acres planted to cover crop (excluding 
CRP) 
• More than 50 percent ownership interest held by 
operator and/or persons related by blood, 
marriage, and/or adoption 
• Limited Liability Corporation 
• Type of internet service, including dial up, DSL, 
Cable modem, fiber optic, mobile broadband plan 
for computer or cell phone, satellite services, 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), or other 
• Acres transitioning into USDA National Organic 
Program organic production 
B - 2 APPENDIX B 2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
