Table 34. Summary by Farm Typology Measured by Gross Cash Farm Income, Primary Occupation of Small 
Family Farm Operators, and Non-Family Farms - North Carolina: 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 23,569 8,969 9,289 4,091 417 160 50 1 592 
50 to 99 acres 3,360 975 1,042 823 245 105 23 8 139 
100 to 199 acres 1,953 394 439 503 293 189 42 4 89 
200 to 499 acres 1,738 142 170 221 521 487 100 4 93 
500 to 999 acres 1,043 15 10 12 91 643 194 4 74 
1.000 to 1,999 acres 752 - - - 5 188 474 9 76 
2.000 acres or more 387 - - - - 5 278 48 56 
Cropland- 
Other pasture and grazing land that could 
have been used for crops without 
additional improvements (see text) ...farms 3,161 1,045 1,239 525 126 90 53 8 75 
acres 95,603 22,058 24,353 11,680 10,179 9,961 8,592 5,797 2,983 
On which all crops failed or 
were abandoned farms 1,670 554 594 308 53 61 39 3 58 
acres 31,568 7,137 6,425 4,182 (D) (D) 4,364 (D) 1,751 
Idle or used for cover crops or soil 
improvement, but not harvested and 
not pastured or grazed (see text) farms 6,846 2,604 2,336 1,080 216 189 154 20 247 
acres 197,573 60,124 53,895 25,404 (D) 19,093 15,136 (D) 12,353 
In cultivated summer fallow farms 1,647 603 476 328 65 55 37 1 82 
acres 42,173 10,111 7,995 7,231 (D) (D) 5,742 (D) 3,962 
Total woodland farms 31,295 11,325 11,570 4,759 1,075 1,043 608 49 866 
acres 2,145,710 608,991 520,218 250,426 125,372 221,890 200,748 41,173 176,892 
Woodland pastured farms 12,675 4,749 4,881 2,048 305 267 113 8 304 
acres 270,242 89,649 76,113 42,024 15,429 19,424 15,102 829 11,672 
Woodland not pastured farms 24,918 9,048 8,953 3,700 946 940 557 45 729 
acres 1,875,468 519,342 444,105 208,402 109,943 202,466 185,646 40,344 165,220 
Permanent pasture and rangeland, 
other than cropland and woodland 
pastured (see text) farms 28,223 9,821 11,347 4,696 737 609 311 23 679 
acres 1,051,041 316,770 307,150 179,127 59,530 79,375 56,569 6,717 45,803 
Land in farmsteads, homes, buildings, 
livestock facilities, ponds, roads, 
wasteland, etc farms 33,122 11,314 12,096 5,497 1,313 1,173 691 77 961 
acres 472,991 122,621 103,429 61,794 36,835 46,492 43,267 8,446 50,107 
Irrigated land farms 4,699 941 1,175 1,086 361 444 355 37 300 
acres 174,526 5,743 8,278 10,186 12,957 33,093 55,448 18,446 30,375 
Harvested cropland farms 4,520 904 1,119 1,050 349 428 346 35 289 
acres 164,414 4,931 7,154 9,033 11,397 30,661 54,463 17,591 29,184 
Pastureland and other land farms 313 47 97 59 28 32 21 4 25 
acres 10,112 812 1,124 1,153 1,560 2,432 985 855 1,191 
CONSERVATION AND CROP INSURANCE 
Land enrolled in Conservation Reserve, 
Wetlands Reserve, Farmable Wetlands, 
or Conservation Reserve Enhancement 
Programs farms 3,240 1,468 996 307 73 110 111 19 156 
acres 105,906 46,566 29,434 8,368 2,237 9,132 3,058 890 6,221 
Land enrolled in crop insurance 
programs (see text) farms 5,615 702 822 855 781 1,192 907 50 306 
acres 2,819,750 57,435 72,305 91,550 187,914 651,921 1,288,432 152,213 317,980 
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE 
Total organic commodity sales (see text) ...farms 220 54 46 80 11 12 7 2 8 
$1,000 15,563 (D) 441 1,300 1,347 5,229 3,713 (D) 171 
VALUE OF LAND AND BUILDINGS 
Estimated market value of land and 
buildings farms 50,218 16,594 18,477 8,372 1,951 1,885 1,207 108 1,624 
$1,000 36,505,652 7,243,693 7,135,290 4,128,540 2,410,275 4,757,543 6,746,247 1,201,892 2,882,172 
Average per farm dollars 726,944 436,525 386,171 493,137 1,235,405 2,523,896 5,589,268 11,128,629 1,774,736 
Average per acre dollars 4,338 5,023 5,349 5,219 4,511 3,724 3,433 3,641 3,892 
Farms by value group: 
$1 to $49,999 4,101 1,448 1,775 709 24 14 4 3 124 
$50,000 to $99,999 4,249 1,473 1,897 659 37 14 5 1 163 
$100,000 to $199,999 8,733 3,116 3,793 1,492 68 28 3 9 224 
$200,000 to $499,999 16,897 6,122 6,867 2,993 372 121 49 2 371 
$500,000 to $999,999 8,599 2,959 2,879 1,562 573 301 66 9 250 
$1,000,000 to $1,999,999 4,064 1,077 895 692 586 482 132 11 189 
$2,000,000 to $4,999,999 2,495 363 338 233 242 720 414 13 172 
$5,000,000 to $9,999,999 754 26 28 22 46 176 369 14 73 
$10,000,000 or more 326 10 5 10 3 29 165 46 58 
VALUE OF MACHINERY AND 
EQUIPMENT 
Estimated market value of all machinery 
and equipment farms 50,215 16,594 18,475 8,372 1,951 1,885 1,206 108 1,624 
$1,000 4,664,336 658,250 757,891 492,736 337,492 698,589 1,099,639 212,066 407,675 
See footnote(s) at end of table. 
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466 Farm Typology 2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
