Table 3. Summary by Farm Typology Measured by Gross Cash Farm Income, Primary Occupation of Small 
Family Farm Operators, and Non-Family Farms - Alaska: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Small family farms - GCFI less than $350,000 
Operator's primary occupation 
farming excluding retirement 
farms 
Mid-size 
family 
farms - 
GCFI 
$350,000 
to $999,999 
Large-scale family 
farms - GCFI 
$1 ,000,000 or more 
Item 
All farms 
Retirement 
Off-farm 
occupation 
Low 
sales - GCFI 
less than 
$150,000 
Moderate 
sales - GCFI 
$150,000 
to $349,999 
Large - 
$1,000,000 
to $4,999,999 
Very large - 
$5,000,000 
or more 
Non-family 
farms 
CROPS HARVESTED - Con. 
Land in vegetables (see text) - Con. 
Potatoes - Con. 
Farms by acres harvested: - Con. 
25.0 to 99.9 acres 
7 
1 
1 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
3 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
250.0 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sweet corn 
.farms 
12 
4 
5 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
2 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Harvested for processing 
.farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tomatoes in the open 
.farms 
12 
1 
6 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
1 
(D) 
(D) 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Harvested for processing 
.farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Land in orchards 
.farms 
17 
4 
5 
6 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
2 
acres 
21 
9 
6 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Irrigated 
.farms 
7 
2 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
acres 
6 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Farms by bearing and nonbearing acres: 
0.1 to 4.9 acres 
17 
4 
5 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
5.0 to 24.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25.0 to 99.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250.0 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Apples 
.farms 
17 
4 
5 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
bearing and nonbearing acres 
17 
(D) 
4 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
Grapes 
.farms 
1 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bearing and nonbearing acres 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Land in berries (see text) 
.farms 
54 
16 
18 
17 
1 
- 
- 
- 
2 
acres 
42 
12 
13 
15 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
1 Landlord production expenses are included with total farm production expenses. 
2 Farms with total production expenses equal to market value of agricultural products sold, government payments, and farm-related income are included as farms with gains of less than $1 ,000. 
42 Farm Typology 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
