Table 61. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race: 2012 (continued) 
[Data were collected for a maximum of three operators. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 
Any operator reporting race as- 
Any operator 
reporting ethnicity 
as Spanish, 
Hispanic, or 
Latino origin 
Characteristics 
American Indian 
or Alaska Native 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Asian 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Black or African 
American 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Native Hawaiian 
or Other Pacific 
Islander alone or 
in combination with 
other races 
White 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
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 
1,021 
100 
2,784 
20 
39,233 
433 
Limited Liability Corporation 
31 
6 
130 
- 
1,513 
22 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
967 
77 
2,620 
18 
36,613 
394 
Partnerships 
40 
14 
152 
- 
1,954 
31 
Corporations 
25 
9 
66 
2 
1,257 
13 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
6 
2 
34 
- 
351 
3 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
433 
30 
1,923 
3 
23,491 
234 
2 operators 
511 
69 
672 
16 
14,357 
171 
3 operators 
68 
2 
224 
1 
1,911 
29 
4 operators 
19 
1 
34 
- 
303 
6 
5 or more operators 
7 
- 
19 
- 
113 
1 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
577 
77 
816 
16 
15,913 
187 
2 operators 
24 
- 
52 
- 
774 
11 
3 operators 
4 
- 
21 
- 
56 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
1 
- 
3 
- 
5 or more operators 
1 
- 
3 
- 
2 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
746 
68 
1,490 
18 
26,309 
295 
Dial-up 
68 
3 
188 
1 
2,413 
29 
DSL service 
295 
41 
640 
9 
1 1 ,295 
105 
Cable modem service 
117 
14 
255 
5 
5,309 
72 
Fiber-optic service 
18 
- 
16 
- 
638 
12 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
180 
6 
213 
7 
4,774 
50 
Satellite service 
145 
3 
340 
- 
4,057 
28 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
10 
1 
24 
- 
411 
2 
Other Internet service 
20 
1 
30 
1 
316 
10 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
14 
3 
117 
- 
930 
21 
acres 
8,620 
169 
44,455 
- 
649,829 
5,307 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
874 
72 
2,245 
17 
32,855 
360 
2 households 
111 
24 
471 
3 
5,949 
69 
3 households 
21 
4 
93 
- 
815 
10 
4 households 
20 
- 
33 
- 
362 
2 
5 or more households 
12 
2 
30 
- 
194 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
843 
58 
2,506 
18 
31,733 
351 
25 to 49 percent 
83 
13 
162 
2 
2,712 
34 
50 to 74 percent 
57 
16 
122 
- 
2,647 
21 
75 to 99 percent 
41 
10 
45 
- 
1,605 
20 
1 00 percent 
14 
5 
37 
- 
1,478 
15 
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