crops such as fruits and nuts, berries, vegetables and 
melons, and nursery and greenhouse erops. 
Age of operator. See Farms by age and primary 
oeeupation of operator. 
American Indian and Alaska Native farm 
operators. Operators of Ameriean Indian and Alaska 
Native raee operating on or off of an Indian 
reservation. For most reservations, the individual 
operators were added to the eensus mail list. Those 
reservations that did not inelude all the individual 
operators on the eensus mail list were identified and 
the data for the entire reservation, ineluding the data 
for the operators that would have met the definition 
of a farm, were eolleeted on one report form. 
Biodiesel. See Renewable energy produeing 
systems. 
Corn, traditional. Traditional eom is an open- 
pollinated (non-hybrid), non-GMO eultivar of Zea 
mays that was indigenously developed and eonsists 
of many heritage varieties of sizes, eolor, and 
drought toleranee. Traditional eorn grown on 
southwest reservations has been passed from 
generation to generation through seed saving by 
Native Ameriean and Hispanie eommunities. 
Traditional eom is eulturally signifieant. 
Cropland, harvested. See Harvested eropland. 
Cropland, total. See Total eropland. 
Deeded land. Land individually or tribally owned 
that is subjeet to real estate and/or property taxes. 
Energy. See Renewable energy produeing systems. 
Ethanol. See Renewable energy produeing systems. 
Expenses. See Total farm produetion expenses. 
Farms by legal status for tax purposes. All farms 
were elassified by legal status in the 2012 eensus. In 
2007 this category was referred to as Farms by type 
of organization. This seetion eolleets information for 
federal tax purposes to determine an operation’s 
legal status. The elassifieations used were: 
1. Family or individual (sole proprietorship). 
2. Partnership, ineluding family partnership. 
3. Corporation, ineluding family eorporations. 
4. Other - eooperative, estate or trust, institutional, 
ete. 
Farms by percent of cropland harvested on 
reservation. The elassifieation of total amount of 
eropland harvested on reservations divided by total 
eropland aeres on farm. 
Farms by percent of land on reservation. The 
elassifieation of total amount of land on reservations 
divided by total aeres on farm. 
Farms by size. All farms were elassified into size 
groups aeeording to the total land area in the farm. 
The land area of a farm is an operating unit eoneept 
and ineludes land owned and operated as well as 
land rented from others. Land rented to or assigned 
to a tenant was considered part of the tenant’s farm 
and not part of the owner’s. 
Farms by tenure of operator. All farms were 
elassified by tenure of operators. The elassifieations 
used were: 
• Full owners operated only land they owned. 
• Part owners operated land they owned and also 
land they rented from others. 
• Tenants operated only land they rented from 
others or worked on shares for others. For the 
2012 Census of Agriculture, operations are 
classified as tenant farms when the only land they 
operate is permit land on the reservations. 
Farms with hired managers are elassified aeeording 
to the land ownership eharaeteristies reported. For 
example, a eorporation owns all the land used on the 
farm and hires a manager to run the farm. The hired 
manager is eonsidered the farm operator, and the 
farm is classified with a tenure type of “full owner” 
even though the hired manager owns none of the 
land he/she operates. 
Farms by value of sales. See market value of 
produets sold. 
Farms with sales of less than $1,000. This eategory 
ineludes farms with sales of less than $1,000 but 
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USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
