Table 40. Summary by Farm Typology Measured by Gross Cash Farm Income, Primary Occupation of Small 
Family Farm Operators, and Non-Family Farms - Rhode Island: 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 
PRINCIPAL OPERATOR 
CHARACTERISTICS - Con. 
Age group: - Con. 
65 to 69 years 
179 
76 
49 
44 
2 
3 
- 
- 
5 
70 years and over 
184 
121 
19 
27 
2 
5 
1 
- 
9 
Average age 
56.7 
69.3 
51.7 
54.2 
53.5 
60.6 
57.3 
- 
55.0 
Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino origin (see text) 
9 
8 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Race: 
American Indian or Alaska Native 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Asian 
14 
- 
12 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
Black or African American 
4 
- 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
White 
1,216 
266 
459 
353 
35 
20 
7 
- 
76 
More than one race reported 
9 
6 
1 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by number of persons living in 
operator's household: 
1 person 
160 
63 
32 
52 
2 
1 
- 
- 
10 
2 people 
538 
146 
173 
152 
18 
10 
3 
- 
36 
3 people 
226 
48 
105 
54 
5 
2 
1 
- 
11 
4 people 
181 
8 
79 
66 
7 
3 
2 
- 
16 
5 or more people 
138 
7 
87 
31 
3 
4 
1 
" 
5 
Percent of operator's total 
household income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
901 
217 
440 
181 
4 
7 
2 
- 
50 
25 to 49 percent 
129 
23 
23 
69 
7 
1 
- 
- 
6 
50 to 74 percent 
71 
26 
4 
23 
4 
4 
1 
- 
9 
75 to 99 percent 
56 
4 
6 
28 
8 
4 
2 
- 
4 
100 percent 
86 
2 
3 
54 
12 
4 
2 
- 
9 
Operator is a hired manager farms 
74 
3 
15 
22 
7 
5 
5 
- 
17 
acres 
12,521 
66 
236 
2,806 
652 
783 
1,910 
- 
6,068 
Farms with- 
Internet access 
1,006 
192 
384 
312 
30 
18 
7 
- 
63 
Dial-up service 
31 
10 
6 
13 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
DSL service 
130 
10 
44 
49 
5 
5 
4 
- 
13 
Cable modem service 
522 
102 
216 
143 
17 
10 
2 
- 
32 
Fiber-optic service 
268 
51 
98 
91 
7 
3 
2 
- 
16 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer 
or cell phone 
108 
25 
44 
31 
2 
1 
2 
- 
3 
Satellite service 
44 
19 
15 
8 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
16 
1 
4 
9 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Other Internet service 
7 
- 
2 
5 
- 
- 
- 
" 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing 
in net income of operation: 
1 household 
1,078 
249 
414 
323 
28 
11 
3 
- 
50 
2 households 
123 
20 
51 
26 
2 
4 
2 
- 
18 
3 households 
30 
3 
7 
6 
2 
4 
2 
- 
6 
4 households 
3 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
5 or more households 
9 
- 
2 
- 
3 
1 
- 
- 
3 
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 farms 
1,165 
272 
476 
355 
35 
20 
7 
- 
- 
acres 
58,664 
11,862 
20,627 
17,563 
2,911 
3,046 
2,655 
- 
- 
Limited Liability Corporation farms 
104 
16 
37 
39 
5 
3 
- 
- 
4 
acres 
4,185 
802 
1,267 
1,180 
283 
356 
- 
- 
297 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES 
(SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual farms 
919 
234 
382 
279 
16 
7 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
43,332 
(D) 
16,512 
13,102 
1,569 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
Partnership farms 
144 
27 
59 
28 
5 
3 
1 
- 
21 
acres 
11,316 
1,480 
3,379 
(D) 
449 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
1,653 
Registered under state law farms 
69 
8 
25 
20 
4 
2 
- 
10 
acres 
7,050 
1,079 
2,022 
2,971 
204 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
Corporation farms 
149 
10 
29 
46 
14 
10 
4 
- 
36 
acres 
10,420 
(D) 
694 
(D) 
893 
1,154 
(D) 
- 
5,689 
Family held farms 
128 
8 
25 
43 
14 
8 
4 
- 
26 
acres 
8,823 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
893 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
4,254 
More than 10 stockholders farms 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
127 
8 
25 
43 
14 
8 
4 
- 
25 
Other than family held farms 
21 
2 
4 
3 
- 
2 
- 
- 
10 
acres 
1,597 
(D) 
(D) 
7 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
1,435 
More than 10 stockholders farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
21 
2 
4 
3 
- 
2 
- 
" 
10 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc farms 
31 
1 
6 
2 
- 
- 
1 
- 
21 
acres 
4,521 
(D) 
42 
(D) 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
3,583 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture Farm Typology 553 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
