Table 61. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race: 2012 (continued) 
[Data were collected for a maximum of three operators. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 
Any operator reporting race as- 
Any operator 
reporting ethnicity 
as Spanish, 
Hispanic, or 
Latino origin 
Characteristics 
American Indian 
or Alaska Native 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Asian 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Black or African 
American 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Native Hawaiian 
or Other Pacific 
Islander alone or 
in combination with 
other races 
White 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
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 
91 
118 
173 
14 
11,550 
196 
Limited Liability Corporation 
9 
9 
13 
- 
918 
20 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
85 
98 
156 
13 
9,927 
170 
Partnerships 
3 
7 
9 
- 
917 
12 
Corporations 
4 
14 
11 
1 
961 
14 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
institutional, etc 
- 
1 
4 
- 
216 
11 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
22 
39 
97 
11 
6,414 
85 
2 operators 
42 
65 
62 
3 
4,515 
89 
3 operators 
20 
12 
20 
- 
850 
26 
4 operators 
6 
2 
1 
- 
169 
3 
5 or more operators 
2 
2 
- 
- 
73 
4 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
56 
66 
71 
3 
5,183 
117 
2 operators 
10 
8 
3 
- 
399 
12 
3 operators 
2 
2 
- 
- 
49 
3 
4 operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
8 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
" 
- 
5 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
71 
100 
114 
8 
8,653 
170 
Dial-up 
6 
7 
19 
- 
919 
9 
DSL service 
16 
19 
11 
3 
1,780 
30 
Cable modem service 
18 
28 
25 
4 
2,319 
47 
Fiber-optic service 
5 
9 
15 
1 
672 
21 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
21 
20 
25 
- 
2,091 
44 
Satellite service 
9 
23 
21 
- 
1,398 
33 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
1 
- 
5 
- 
267 
12 
Other Internet service 
- 
4 
4 
- 
210 
1 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
acres 
2 
(D) 
6 
77 
7 
4,409 
- 
417 
155,697 
16 
1,137 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
69 
80 
150 
12 
9,807 
164 
2 households 
16 
26 
19 
2 
1,603 
20 
3 households 
4 
2 
10 
- 
362 
10 
4 households 
1 
7 
1 
- 
150 
10 
5 or more households 
2 
5 
- 
- 
99 
3 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
81 
53 
138 
13 
8,596 
164 
25 to 49 percent 
7 
11 
8 
- 
842 
4 
50 to 74 percent 
2 
34 
16 
1 
997 
17 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
5 
9 
- 
770 
4 
100 percent 
2 
17 
9 
- 
816 
18 
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