Table 18. Summary by Farm Typology Measured by Gross Cash Farm Income, Primary Occupation of Small 
Family Farm Operators, and Non-Family Farms - Kentucky: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Small family farms - GCFI less than $350,000 
Operator's primary occupation Large-scale family 
farming excluding retirement farms - GCFI 
f arms Mid-size $1 ,000,000 or more 
family 
Low Moderate farms - 
sales - GCFI sales - GCFI GCFI Large - Very large - 
Off-farm less than $150,000 $350,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000 Non-family 
Item All farms Retirement occupation $150,000 to $349,999 to $999,999 to $4,999,999 or more farms 
LAND USE - Con. 
Total cropland - Con. 
Harvested cropland - Con. 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 49 acres 34,662 12,079 16,335 5,197 207 74 14 2 754 
50 to 99 acres 8,772 2,917 3,196 2,052 250 74 10 - 273 
100 to 199 acres 4,735 1,219 1,392 1,359 390 151 5 1 218 
200 to 499 acres 2,524 388 513 525 569 375 48 2 104 
500 to 999 acres 901 45 58 27 190 480 49 2 50 
1.000 to 1,999 acres 565 3 1 1 23 339 152 4 42 
2.000 acres or more 388 - - - 1 51 287 20 29 
Cropland- 
Other pasture and grazing land that could 
have been used for crops without 
additional improvements (see text) ... farms 7,226 2,169 2,956 1,336 269 243 54 2 197 
acres 325,588 84,656 87,944 60,088 21,333 44,681 16,190 (D) (D) 
On which all crops failed or 
were abandoned farms 2,057 634 843 385 67 69 22 1 36 
acres 56,056 14,728 15,941 10,161 4,121 6,531 2,823 (D) (D) 
Idle or used for cover crops or soil 
improvement, but not harvested and 
not pastured or grazed (see text) farms 13,126 5,328 5,290 1,508 186 276 117 12 409 
acres 560,327 226,256 197,579 61,968 17,051 20,825 10,878 (D) (D) 
In cultivated summer fallow farms 1,737 587 516 474 56 33 10 - 61 
acres 44,731 14,689 10,800 10,558 3,699 2,816 699 - 1,470 
Total woodland farms 45,709 15,465 19,655 7,118 1,082 894 273 11 1,211 
acres 2,745,655 927,636 996,479 424,028 95,610 131,914 65,424 8,275 96,289 
Woodland pastured farms 21,224 6,917 9,018 3,720 519 393 75 4 578 
acres 665,010 211,382 224,776 124,002 29,101 39,281 14,031 1,008 21,429 
Woodland not pastured farms 32,854 11,281 14,107 4,880 804 671 237 8 866 
acres 2,080,645 716,254 771,703 300,026 66,509 92,633 51,393 7,267 74,860 
Permanent pasture and rangeland, 
other than cropland and woodland 
pastured (see text) farms 50,952 16,055 22,135 8,944 1,268 953 269 16 1,312 
acres 3,223,610 874,358 992,562 644,459 197,512 240,634 101,106 15,394 157,585 
Land in farmsteads, homes, buildings, 
livestock facilities, ponds, roads, 
wasteland, etc farms 52,715 17,560 22,476 8,334 1,423 1,170 387 26 1,339 
acres 743,835 231,313 228,367 120,531 37,682 56,103 28,261 5,212 36,366 
Irrigated land farms 2,910 526 906 774 272 205 107 10 110 
acres 73,573 2,930 4,995 4,184 5,398 11,289 28,328 8,817 7,632 
Harvested cropland farms 2,795 502 849 754 272 203 104 10 101 
acres 71,168 (D) 4,092 3,953 (D) 11,176 (D) 8,817 7,342 
Pastureland and other land farms 144 28 66 32 1 4 3 - 10 
acres 2,405 (D) 903 231 (D) 113 (D) - 290 
CONSERVATION AND CROP INSURANCE 
Land enrolled in Conservation Reserve, 
Wetlands Reserve, Farmable Wetlands, 
or Conservation Reserve Enhancement 
Programs farms 6,906 2,896 2,331 726 175 332 192 12 242 
acres 317,928 138,710 100,452 32,793 8,839 13,371 9,767 3,092 10,904 
Land enrolled in crop insurance 
programs (see text) farms 5,798 780 1,220 1,329 713 1,029 453 25 249 
acres 2,465,576 63,612 103,045 98,153 178,707 699,029 983,356 175,452 164,222 
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE 
Total organic commodity sales (see text) ... farms 86 19 15 35 13 2 - - 2 
$1,000 4,059 152 250 748 2,254 (D) - - (D) 
VALUE OF LAND AND BUILDINGS 
Estimated market value of land and 
buildings farms 77,064 25,227 33,368 12,230 1,825 1,651 606 36 2,121 
$1,000 39,459,278 7,933,287 9,926,632 5,223,694 2,512,648 5,199,349 5,568,323 1,000,738 2,094,607 
Average per farm dollars 512,033 314,476 297,490 427,121 1,376,793 3,149,212 9,188,652 27,798,274 987,556 
Average per acre dollars 3,024 2,562 2,936 2,734 3,210 3,313 3,795 4,488 3,389 
Farms by value group: 
$1 to $49,999 7,425 2,613 3,487 1,079 16 10 1 - 219 
$50,000 to $99,999 10,067 3,685 4,768 1,330 26 2 2 254 
$100,000 to $199,999 17,965 6,084 8,836 2,597 69 23 - - 356 
$200,000 to $499,999 24,912 8,592 11,340 4,015 279 76 14 - 596 
$500,000 to $999,999 9,603 3,034 3,471 2,032 521 207 15 1 322 
$1,000,000 to $1,999,999 3,951 891 1,111 889 518 350 38 3 151 
$2,000,000 to $4,999,999 2,246 302 333 266 350 721 126 4 144 
$5,000,000 to $9,999,999 568 22 19 18 44 221 202 4 38 
$10,000,000 or more 327 4 3 4 2 41 208 24 41 
VALUE OF MACHINERY AND 
EQUIPMENT 
Estimated market value of all machinery 
and equipment farms 77,061 25,225 33,367 12,230 1,825 1,651 606 36 2,121 
$1,000 5,408,946 1,127,816 1,499,067 789,347 363,117 700,935 605,695 79,975 242,994 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture Farm Typology 243 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
