publication. The report forms allowed farm and 
ranch operators to self-report agricultural activity on 
American Indian reservations and identified farms or 
ranches that operated land on reservations. The 
intent was to measure total agrieulture on farms and 
ranches that had at least some agrieultural production 
on reservations during 2012. Specifically, this 
section requested: 
• the number of acres used for livestoek or 
cropland during 2012 on the reservation, 
• the number of eropland acres harvested during 
2012 on the reservation, and 
• the percent of the operation’s livestoek on the 
reservation on December 31, 2012. 
An additional land tenure category was added to the 
Ameriean Indian report form (12-A200) - land used 
under a permit on an Ameriean Indian reservation. 
For the 2012 Census of Agriculture, operations were 
classified as tenant farms when the only land they 
operated was permit land on the reservations. In 
previous eensus reports, Ameriean Indian farm 
operations usually reported their land on an 
Ameriean Indian reservation as owned land. 
The data are summarized in Tables 1 and 2 for those 
census reports where the farm or raneh operator self- 
reported that at least a portion of the operation was 
located on a reservation during 2012. Tables 1 and 2 
contain two data columns for each reservation. The 
first data column includes data for all farms and 
ranehes operating on the reservation. The second 
column includes data for farms operated by 
American Indians or Alaska Natives on the operation 
where at least one of the reported operators (out of a 
maximum of three) were self-identified as Ameriean 
Indian or Alaska Native either as a single raee or in 
combination with other races. 
The data represent counts and totals for farms and 
ranches that had any agricultural production on 
reservations during 2012. This includes ranches that 
only grazed livestock on reservation land on an 
Animal Unit Month (AUM) basis, but did not 
actually operate any land. NASS did not ask for 
speeific crop acreages or livestoek inventories 
aetually on the reservation land. The total harvested 
cropland acreage and the percent of livestoek 
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inventory on reservation land was colleeted. 
Consequently, the total erop aereage or livestoek 
inventory may include some aereage or livestock that 
were aetually located outside of the reservation 
boundaries. Data are presented at the beginning of 
Table 1 that describe the distribution of reservation 
farms by pereent of land on a reservation, by pereent 
of harvested cropland on a reservation, and by 
percent of livestoek on a reservation. Note that these 
counts do not sum to the total number of farms on 
the reservation sinee all farms do not necessarily 
operate land, have harvested eropland, or have 
livestock on the reservation. These distribution 
eounts in Table 1 eannot be used to directly calculate 
any crop or livestock data items but they do provide 
information regarding the degree to which the erop 
and livestoek data aetually apply to reservation land. 
DATA CHANGES 
Following are descriptions of the report form changes 
and their effect on the publication tables in this report. 
Crop Data Changes 
Deleted items include: none 
Added items include: 
• Dry edible beans, exeluding limas harvested 
• Com, traditional harvested 
• Land in vegetables 
• Cantaloupes harvested 
• Honeydew melons harvested 
• Squash, all harvested 
• Watermelons harvested 
• Land in orehards 
• Land in berries 
Livestock and Poultry Data Changes 
Deleted items include: 
• Total horses sold 
Added items inelude: 
• Owned horses sold 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
