Table 66. Summary by Combined Government Payments and Market Value of Agricultural Products 
Sold: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
$25,000 to 
$49,999 
$10,000 to 
$24,999 
$5,000 to 
$9,999 
$2,500 to 
$4,999 
$1 ,000 to 
$2,499 
Less than 
$1,000 
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 
2,745 
5,968 
6,185 
5,586 
5,712 
9,782 
acres 
852,272 
1,187,926 
834,187 
610,253 
521,805 
841,781 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
127 
247 
169 
162 
173 
286 
acres 
114,978 
105,429 
46,796 
47,565 
61,136 
81,498 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
2,515 
5,601 
5,919 
5,327 
5,469 
9,357 
acres 
715,209 
1 ,020,387 
754,423 
533,585 
456,734 
736,232 
Partnership 
farms 
189 
304 
240 
214 
188 
283 
acres 
141,888 
142,765 
79,874 
57,192 
(D) 
76,283 
Registered under state law 
farms 
95 
185 
137 
133 
117 
178 
acres 
78,745 
102,267 
62,456 
47,510 
42,491 
63,628 
Corporation 
farms 
106 
146 
100 
111 
99 
205 
acres 
54,574 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
23,857 
47,323 
Family held 
farms 
102 
134 
85 
99 
85 
178 
acres 
53,658 
60,015 
(D) 
25,266 
20,170 
41,936 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
2 
1 
2 
2 
5 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
100 
133 
83 
97 
80 
178 
Other than family held 
farms 
4 
12 
15 
12 
14 
27 
acres 
916 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
3,687 
5,387 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
- 
2 
5 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
4 
12 
15 
10 
9 
27 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
23 
41 
52 
44 
59 
111 
acres 
31,450 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
31,920 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
954 
1,588 
1,255 
983 
898 
1,690 
workers 
2,380 
4,112 
2,852 
2,174 
2,144 
3,960 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
268 
345 
297 
212 
214 
589 
workers 
478 
618 
458 
384 
379 
1,029 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
787 
1,372 
1,032 
839 
756 
1,289 
workers 
1,902 
3,494 
2,394 
1,790 
1,765 
2,931 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
9 
13 
11 
8 
11 
13 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
8 
5 
9 
- 
3 
4 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
1,286 
2,767 
2,719 
2,426 
2,565 
4,594 
workers 
2,816 
6,291 
5,993 
5,373 
5,769 
10,787 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
58 
191 
318 
366 
616 
1,220 
1 0 to 49 acres 
206 
960 
1,772 
2,204 
2,577 
4,494 
50 to 69 acres 
155 
537 
810 
689 
600 
1,075 
70 to 99 acres 
227 
764 
921 
726 
651 
928 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
299 
909 
835 
544 
467 
838 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
298 
688 
478 
339 
244 
436 
180 to 219 acres 
282 
483 
295 
225 
185 
264 
220 to 259 acres 
205 
373 
172 
135 
94 
130 
260 to 499 acres 
657 
769 
470 
293 
247 
329 
500 to 999 acres 
332 
285 
163 
124 
89 
178 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
75 
95 
56 
39 
30 
38 
2,000 acres or more 
39 
38 
21 
12 
15 
26 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
271 
233 
200 
163 
72 
114 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
130 
271 
252 
167 
104 
54 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
70 
266 
237 
144 
91 
367 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
60 
119 
84 
35 
47 
40 
Other crop farming (1119) 
481 
1,163 
1,599 
1,870 
2,201 
2,077 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (1 1192) 
33 
23 
16 
10 
4 
3 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (11193,11194,11199) 
448 
1,140 
1,583 
1,860 
2,197 
2,074 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
1,666 
3,632 
3,466 
2,579 
1,906 
3,185 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
- 
1 
2 
- 
3 
20 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
4 
6 
11 
25 
23 
84 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
26 
52 
56 
130 
325 
472 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
25 
74 
120 
206 
449 
1,020 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
100 
275 
284 
377 
594 
2,523 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
1,936 
4,057 
3,730 
2,753 
2,062 
3,518 
number 
165,352 
195,423 
101,156 
50,412 
27,989 
59,623 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
46 
163 
338 
640 
889 
1,655 
1 0 to 49 
462 
2,433 
3,042 
2,035 
1,137 
1,665 
50 to 99 
781 
1,216 
309 
72 
32 
149 
100 to 199 
567 
200 
31 
6 
4 
34 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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