Table 1 . Farm Characteristics of All Farms on Selected Reservations and of All Farms Operated by American 
Indians or Alaska Natives on Selected Reservations: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Crow 
Crow Creek 
Flandreau Santee 
Farms 
Farms 
Farms 
Characteristics 
operated by 
operated by 
operated by 
Total ^ 
American 
Indians or 
Total ^ 
American 
Indians or 
Total ^ 
American 
Indians or 
Alaska 
Alaska 
Alaska 
Natives ^ 
Natives ^ 
Natives ^ 
LAND USE PRACTICES - Con. 
Cropland planted to a cover crop 
(excluding CRP) 
....farms 
10 
- 
5 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
292 
- 
1,069 
- 
- 
- 
ENERGY 
Renewable energy producing systems 
...farms 
16 
1 
3 
- 
1 
- 
Solar panels 
...farms 
13 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wind turbines 
...farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Methane digesters 
...farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Geoexchange systems 
...farms 
4 
- 
3 
- 
1 
- 
Small hydro systems 
...farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Biodiesel 
...farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Ethanol 
...farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other 
...farms 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Wind rights leased to others 
....farms 
- 
- 
3 
- 
- 
- 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
241 
73 
59 
14 
7 
1 
Dial-up service 
23 
6 
1 
- 
- 
- 
DSL service 
55 
14 
14 
1 
3 
1 
Cable modem service 
12 
1 
6 
- 
1 
- 
Fiber-optic service 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer 
7 
1 
31 
8 
3 
1 
or a cell phone 
41 
13 
3 
- 
1 
1 
Satellite service 
108 
37 
4 
- 
1 
- 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) .. 
2 
1 
6 
6 
- 
- 
Other Internet service 
7 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
Farms by legal status for tax 
purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
280 
140 
48 
15 
6 
- 
Partnership 
21 
4 
9 
- 
- 
- 
Corporation 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
43 
1 
4 
” 
” 
” 
institutional, etc 
17 
12 
2 
2 
1 
1 
LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY 
Cattle and calves inventory 
....farms 
211 
76 
37 
5 
1 
- 
number 
82,873 
15,990 
41,030 
368 
(D) 
- 
Beef cows 
....farms 
199 
72 
37 
5 
1 
- 
number 
41 ,446 
9,938 
17,201 
280 
(D) 
- 
Milk cows 
....farms 
2 
- 
6 
4 
- 
- 
number 
(D) 
- 
42 
(D) 
- 
- 
Cattle and calves sold 
....farms 
189 
68 
37 
5 
1 
- 
number 
61 ,744 
9,167 
22,099 
292 
(D) 
- 
Flogs and pigs inventory 
....farms 
4 
- 
1 
- 
- 
number 
15 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
Flogs and pigs sold 
....farms 
4 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
number 
33 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
See footnote(s) at end of table. --continued 
60 American Indian Reservations 2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
