Table 68. Summary by North American Industry Classification System: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Oilseed and 
grain farming 
(1111) 
Vegetable 
and melon 
farming 
(1112) 
Fruit and 
tree nut 
farming 
(1113) 
Greenhouse, 
nursery, and 
floriculture 
production 
(1114) 
Other crop farming 
(1119) 
Total 
Tobacco 
farming 
(11191) 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES 
(SEE TEXT) - Con. 
Corporation - Con. 
Other than family held - Con. 
More than 1 0 stockholders farms 
2 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
2 
_ 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
20 
4 
1 
- 
2 
6 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc farms 
56 
7 
4 
1 
1 
20 
- 
acres 
6,267 
1,942 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
2,181 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor farms 
898 
234 
39 
7 
39 
59 
_ 
workers 
3,697 
813 
666 
102 
300 
190 
- 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more farms 
578 
153 
25 
5 
25 
35 
- 
workers 
1,772 
421 
202 
35 
115 
104 
- 
Less than 150 days farms 
567 
145 
35 
5 
29 
43 
- 
workers 
1,925 
392 
464 
67 
185 
86 
- 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) farms 
38 
10 
10 
1 
4 
4 
- 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) farms 
6 
3 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) farms 
1,092 
221 
24 
12 
36 
150 
- 
workers 
2,550 
524 
72 
26 
79 
287 
- 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
452 
6 
19 
4 
37 
10 
_ 
1 0 to 49 acres 
933 
77 
11 
9 
27 
158 
- 
50 to 69 acres 
143 
39 
3 
2 
3 
46 
- 
70 to 99 acres 
158 
47 
1 
1 
- 
35 
- 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
153 
62 
4 
1 
- 
16 
- 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
89 
49 
1 
- 
1 
8 
- 
180 to 219 acres 
63 
40 
1 
1 
2 
7 
- 
220 te 259 acres 
43 
19 
1 
- 
1 
5 
- 
260 to 499 acres 
177 
94 
3 
- 
2 
11 
- 
500 to 999 acres 
92 
57 
7 
1 
- 
8 
- 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
90 
66 
5 
- 
- 
5 
- 
2,000 acres or more 
58 
50 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
606 
606 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Vegetable and melen farming (1112) 
61 
- 
61 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
19 
- 
- 
19 
- 
- 
- 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
73 
- 
- 
- 
73 
- 
- 
Other crop farming (1119) 
309 
- 
- 
- 
- 
309 
- 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 193,1 1 194,1 1199) 
309 
- 
- 
- 
- 
309 
- 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
137 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
32 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
16 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
645 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
31 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
520 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory farms 
431 
102 
6 
2 
3 
60 
_ 
number 
18,225 
7,387 
(D) 
(D) 
26 
672 
- 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
171 
19 
2 
2 
1 
29 
- 
1 0 to 49 
188 
63 
3 
- 
2 
30 
- 
50 to 99 
36 
9 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
100 to 199 
17 
3 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
200 to 499 
14 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 or more 
5 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cows and heifers that calved farms 
347 
86 
6 
_ 
2 
48 
_ 
number 
8,345 
3,000 
120 
- 
(D) 
367 
- 
Beef cows farms 
296 
80 
6 
_ 
1 
47 
_ 
number 
3,833 
1,418 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
315 
- 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
181 
45 
4 
- 
1 
35 
- 
1 0 to 49 
101 
31 
1 
- 
- 
12 
- 
50 to 99 
14 
4 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 199 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
200 to 499 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
See footnote(s) at end of table. --continued 
174 Delaware 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
