Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
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 
23,913 
(NA) 
146 
(NA) 
72 
(NA) 
11 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
1,861 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
11 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
20,716 
21,308 
133 
192 
53 
48 
10 
4 
Partnerships 
1,802 
2,124 
5 
17 
13 
15 
2 
3 
Corporations 
1,792 
1,533 
2 
4 
17 
13 
- 
1 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
506 
384 
14 
10 
2 
- 
2 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
11,796 
12,967 
67 
120 
32 
38 
8 
4 
2 operators 
11,109 
10,583 
74 
87 
42 
24 
4 
4 
3 operators 
1,427 
1,304 
7 
8 
10 
11 
2 
- 
4 operators 
304 
316 
3 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
180 
179 
3 
7 
1 
3 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
1 1 ,992 
11,679 
92 
141 
29 
17 
7 
5 
2 operators 
530 
516 
4 
2 
- 
2 
- 
- 
3 operators 
74 
52 
1 
2 
- 
1 
- 
- 
4 operators 
12 
21 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
4 
11 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
19,211 
16,703 
102 
135 
68 
54 
12 
6 
Dial-up 
1,451 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
7,659 
(NA) 
35 
(NA) 
30 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
2,032 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
545 
(NA) 
7 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
3,376 
(NA) 
22 
(NA) 
15 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
5,323 
(NA) 
26 
(NA) 
21 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
386 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
684 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
1,036 
893 
9 
10 
10 
5 
2 
1 
acres 
2,159,058 
1,927,076 
(D) 
(D) 
9,015 
6,055 
(D) 
(D) 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
20,199 
20,363 
125 
180 
54 
49 
11 
5 
2 households 
3,310 
3,570 
22 
32 
21 
18 
- 
3 
3 households 
763 
809 
2 
4 
7 
6 
2 
- 
4 households 
307 
331 
5 
3 
- 
1 
1 
- 
5 or more households 
237 
276 
- 
4 
3 
2 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
16,982 
18,005 
114 
178 
31 
37 
12 
8 
25 to 49 percent 
1,900 
1,859 
13 
18 
9 
6 
2 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
2,311 
2,136 
14 
9 
16 
9 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
1,821 
1,768 
5 
13 
18 
15 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
1,802 
1,581 
8 
5 
11 
9 
- 
- 
--continued 
50 Idaho 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
