Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbois, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race - Con. 
Operators 
Characteristics 
Native Hawaiian 
or other 
Pacific Islander 
White 
reporting 
more than 
one race 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
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 
- 
(NA) 
2,302 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
- 
(NA) 
187 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
- 
- 
1,869 
1,950 
4 
5 
Partnerships 
- 
- 
155 
207 
- 
- 
Corporations 
- 
- 
312 
279 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
56 
48 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
1,324 
1,410 
1 
5 
2 operators 
- 
- 
837 
857 
2 
- 
3 operators 
- 
- 
192 
173 
1 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
27 
28 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
12 
16 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
1,017 
999 
2 
- 
2 operators 
- 
- 
68 
54 
1 
- 
3 operators 
- 
- 
8 
4 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
3 
2 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
- 
- 
1,637 
1,456 
3 
4 
Dial-up 
- 
(NA) 
153 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
- 
(NA) 
288 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
- 
(NA) 
472 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
- 
(NA) 
200 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
- 
(NA) 
393 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
- 
(NA) 
242 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
- 
(NA) 
47 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
- 
(NA) 
17 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
- 
- 
119 
101 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
61,867 
58,581 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
_ 
_ 
1,927 
1,944 
4 
2 
2 households 
- 
- 
356 
413 
- 
3 
3 households 
- 
- 
66 
61 
- 
- 
4 households 
- 
- 
29 
38 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
- 
- 
14 
28 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
- 
- 
1,240 
1,316 
3 
4 
25 to 49 percent 
- 
- 
258 
245 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
- 
- 
332 
365 
- 
1 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
- 
309 
333 
1 
- 
1 00 percent 
- 
- 
253 
225 
- 
- 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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