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 
189 
236 
153 
161 
162 
355 
acres 
14,154 
11,950 
5,521 
6,196 
4,107 
7,728 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
14 
29 
8 
13 
7 
14 
acres 
767 
459 
169 
604 
(D) 
308 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
134 
208 
144 
144 
147 
318 
acres 
10,537 
10,223 
4,676 
5,522 
3,595 
6,811 
Partnership 
farms 
8 
8 
7 
7 
4 
24 
acres 
(D) 
376 
250 
(D) 
(D) 
524 
Registered under state law 
farms 
7 
8 
4 
6 
2 
19 
acres 
670 
376 
(D) 
250 
(D) 
463 
Corporation 
farms 
35 
23 
5 
9 
12 
14 
acres 
2,530 
1,428 
(D) 
285 
671 
426 
Family held 
farms 
34 
17 
3 
9 
12 
13 
acres 
(D) 
1,211 
(D) 
285 
671 
(D) 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
33 
17 
3 
9 
12 
13 
Other than family held 
farms 
1 
6 
2 
_ 
_ 
1 
acres 
(D) 
217 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
- 
2 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
1 
6 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
18 
5 
2 
1 
3 
5 
acres 
(D) 
44 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
292 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
69 
48 
42 
30 
23 
74 
workers 
228 
123 
79 
73 
52 
160 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
47 
20 
29 
24 
15 
29 
workers 
150 
30 
45 
34 
29 
59 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
35 
40 
14 
15 
11 
50 
workers 
78 
93 
34 
39 
23 
101 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
_ 
1 
_ 
_ 
1 
_ 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
Ill 
93 
55 
90 
84 
203 
workers 
245 
212 
133 
196 
212 
449 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
13 
83 
27 
19 
40 
125 
1 0 to 49 acres 
68 
76 
95 
101 
102 
210 
50 to 69 acres 
25 
33 
16 
13 
8 
9 
70 to 99 acres 
35 
20 
12 
19 
9 
7 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
32 
20 
5 
3 
3 
1 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
11 
4 
1 
4 
2 
- 
180 to 219 acres 
6 
2 
- 
1 
1 
4 
220 to 259 acres 
1 
2 
- 
- 
- 
4 
260 to 499 acres 
3 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
500 to 999 acres 
1 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2,000 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
97 
57 
29 
14 
6 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
6 
12 
4 
3 
1 
- 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
1 
5 
3 
- 
1 
5 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
8 
16 
7 
4 
4 
9 
Other crop farming (1119) 
21 
52 
47 
59 
67 
46 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (1 1192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (11193,11194,11199) 
21 
52 
47 
59 
67 
46 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
3 
20 
13 
12 
34 
41 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
5 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
- 
11 
- 
- 
- 
4 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
- 
5 
2 
4 
7 
13 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
- 
1 
- 
6 
9 
14 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
54 
64 
52 
59 
37 
229 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
47 
43 
29 
34 
36 
72 
number 
1,503 
628 
313 
468 
254 
395 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
6 
5 
13 
10 
29 
67 
10 to 49 
31 
38 
16 
24 
7 
5 
50 to 99 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 199 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
Delaware 121 
