Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Corporation 
Other- 
Item 
Family held 
Other than family held 
cooperative. 
Total 
Total 
1 0 or less 
stockholders 
Total 
1 0 or less 
stockholders 
estate or trust, 
institutional, etc. 
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 
2,929 
2,751 
2,692 
178 
165 
1,206 
acres 
2,363,985 
2,247,334 
2,193,448 
116,651 
114,007 
235,791 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
57 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
19,104 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Partnership 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Registered under state law 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corporation 
farms 
3,716 
3,319 
3,236 
397 
347 
- 
acres 
2,858,974 
2,680,220 
2,615,875 
178,754 
169,487 
- 
Family held 
farms 
3,319 
3,319 
3,236 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
2,680,220 
2,680,220 
2,615,875 
- 
- 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
83 
83 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10 or less stockholders 
farms 
3,236 
3,236 
3,236 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held 
farms 
397 
_ 
_ 
397 
347 
_ 
acres 
178,754 
- 
- 
178,754 
169,487 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
50 
- 
- 
50 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
347 
- 
- 
347 
347 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1,882 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
358,037 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
2,384 
2,218 
2,160 
166 
146 
499 
workers 
16,112 
14,659 
14,236 
1,453 
1,409 
1,752 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
1,763 
1,638 
1,593 
125 
113 
235 
workers 
8,391 
7,645 
7,352 
746 
720 
747 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
1,558 
1,450 
1,414 
108 
97 
331 
workers 
7,721 
7,014 
6,884 
707 
689 
1,005 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
56 
48 
46 
8 
7 
5 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
1,078 
975 
959 
103 
89 
549 
workers 
2,249 
1,995 
1,957 
254 
227 
1,314 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
273 
223 
213 
50 
46 
157 
1 0 to 49 acres 
630 
551 
531 
79 
69 
542 
50 to 69 acres 
124 
96 
93 
28 
25 
159 
70 to 99 acres 
191 
145 
143 
46 
31 
225 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
164 
142 
136 
22 
19 
163 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
139 
112 
112 
27 
25 
159 
180 to 219 acres 
102 
87 
85 
15 
13 
90 
220 to 259 acres 
93 
85 
84 
8 
6 
76 
260 to 499 acres 
353 
320 
309 
33 
31 
166 
500 to 999 acres 
537 
503 
494 
34 
27 
98 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
673 
645 
635 
28 
28 
23 
2,000 acres or more 
437 
410 
401 
27 
27 
24 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
2,019 
1,889 
1,855 
130 
117 
657 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
48 
41 
41 
7 
6 
12 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
97 
80 
75 
17 
14 
11 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
275 
241 
233 
34 
32 
31 
Other crop farming (1119) 
559 
420 
402 
139 
110 
988 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (1 1192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (11193,11194,11199) 
559 
420 
402 
139 
110 
988 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
111 
100 
100 
11 
11 
67 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
49 
49 
49 
- 
- 
4 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
71 
71 
62 
- 
- 
6 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
179 
158 
153 
21 
20 
6 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
31 
28 
24 
3 
2 
18 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
7 
7 
7 
- 
- 
11 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
270 
235 
235 
35 
35 
71 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
604 
573 
557 
31 
31 
167 
number 
126,518 
124,531 
121,393 
1,987 
1,987 
18,084 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
66 
54 
49 
12 
12 
49 
1 0 to 49 
181 
173 
171 
8 
8 
69 
50 to 99 
97 
93 
93 
4 
4 
15 
100 to 199 
77 
75 
72 
2 
2 
15 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data Illinois 151 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
