Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Corporation 
Other- 
Item 
Family held 
Other than family held 
cooperative. 
Total 
Total 
1 0 or less 
stockholders 
Total 
1 0 or less 
stockholders 
estate or trust, 
institutional, etc. 
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 
279 
266 
261 
13 
13 
36 
acres 
145,948 
143,488 
140,398 
2,460 
2,460 
3,807 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
13 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
829 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Partnership 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Registered under state law 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corporation 
farms 
317 
295 
289 
22 
20 
- 
acres 
159,443 
156,297 
153,205 
3,146 
(D) 
- 
Family held 
farms 
295 
295 
289 
- 
- 
acres 
156,297 
156,297 
153,205 
- 
- 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
6 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
289 
289 
289 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held 
farms 
22 
_ 
_ 
22 
20 
_ 
acres 
3,146 
- 
- 
3,146 
(D) 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
2 
- 
- 
2 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
20 
- 
- 
20 
20 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
56 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
6,267 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
199 
193 
188 
6 
5 
25 
workers 
1,276 
1,249 
1,138 
27 
(D) 
122 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
146 
141 
136 
5 
4 
21 
workers 
698 
(D) 
578 
(D) 
(D) 
91 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
120 
118 
115 
2 
2 
14 
workers 
578 
(D) 
560 
(D) 
(D) 
31 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
17 
17 
16 
. 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
2 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
123 
114 
113 
9 
9 
36 
workers 
294 
266 
(D) 
28 
28 
82 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
45 
44 
43 
1 
1 
6 
1 0 to 49 acres 
88 
79 
79 
9 
8 
23 
50 to 69 acres 
11 
8 
8 
3 
3 
3 
70 to 99 acres 
18 
17 
17 
1 
1 
3 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
21 
16 
15 
5 
4 
8 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
15 
15 
15 
- 
- 
1 
180 to 219 acres 
7 
7 
7 
- 
- 
2 
220 to 259 acres 
8 
8 
8 
- 
- 
1 
260 to 499 acres 
22 
21 
20 
1 
1 
6 
500 to 999 acres 
26 
25 
22 
1 
1 
3 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
29 
28 
28 
1 
1 
- 
2,000 acres or more 
27 
27 
27 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
81 
77 
76 
4 
4 
7 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
13 
12 
11 
1 
1 
4 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
1 
1 
1 
- 
- 
1 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
19 
17 
17 
2 
2 
1 
Other crop farming (1119) 
22 
14 
14 
8 
6 
20 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (1 1192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (11193,11194,11199) 
22 
14 
14 
8 
6 
20 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
3 
3 
3 
- 
- 
2 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
7 
7 
7 
- 
- 
1 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
1 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
121 
116 
112 
5 
5 
12 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
49 
47 
47 
2 
2 
7 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
33 
33 
33 
_ 
_ 
6 
number 
3,578 
3,578 
3,578 
- 
- 
397 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
2 
2 
2 
3 
1 0 to 49 
15 
15 
15 
- 
- 
- 
50 to 99 
5 
5 
5 
- 
- 
2 
100 to 199 
7 
7 
7 
- 
- 
- 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data Delaware 147 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
