commodities market or livestock trading activities. 
Explanations of selected produetion expenses are 
listed below. 
Chemicals. These 2012 expenses inelude 
inseetieides, herbicides, fungicides, and other 
pesticides, ineluding costs of custom application. 
Data exclude commereial fertilizer purehased. 
Feed purchased. These expenses inelude the eost of 
all feed purehased for livestock and poultry 
including grain, hay, silage, mixed feeds, 
eoneentrates, ete. during 2012. 
Fertilizer, lime, and soil conditioners. These 2012 
expenses inelude fertilizer and lime including rock 
phosphate and gypsum, and the eosts of eustom 
applieation. 
Gasolines, fuels, and oils. These expenses inelude 
the cost of all gasoline, diesel, natural gas, LP gas, 
motor oil, and grease produets for the farm during 
2012. Expenses exelude fuel for personal use of 
automobiles by the family and others, fuel used for 
eooking and heating the farmhouse, and any other 
use outside of farm work on the operation. 
Hired farm labor. These 2012 expenses inelude the 
total amount paid for farm or raneh labor ineluding 
regular workers, part-time workers, and members of 
the operator’s family if they received payments for 
labor. Expenses inelude soeial seeurity taxes. State 
taxes, unemployment tax, payment for siek leave or 
vacation pay, workman’s compensation, insurance 
premiums, and pension plans. 
Interest paid on debts. These expenses inelude 
interest and finance charges paid in 2012 for debts 
seeured by real estate and on debt not seeured by real 
estate. Interest expenses exeluded from this eategory 
are non-farm interest expenses and interest expenses 
originating from maehinery and equipment used for 
a separate eustomwork business or for other 
operations. Interest expense for the operator’s 
dwelling, where the amount is separate from interest 
on farm land and buildings on the operation, is 
exeluded. Interest paid on debts was reported in one 
of two eategories: 
1. Secured by real estate. These data inelude all 
interest expenses paid in 2012 on debts seeured 
by real estate for the farm. 
2. Not secured by real estate. These data inelude all 
interest expenses paid in 2012 on debts secured 
by maehinery, traetors, trueks, other equipment, 
livestoek, poultry, breeding stoek, money 
borrowed for use as working eapital, and interest 
paid on CCC loans for the farm. 
Livestock and poultry purchased or leased. These 
data include Breeding livestoek purehased or leased 
and Other livestoek and poultry purehased or leased. 
Total operators. See Operators, total. 
Total sales. See Market value of agrieultural 
products sold. 
Value of sales. See Market value of agrieultural 
produets sold. 
Wheat for grain. Data were reported by type of 
wheat - Durum, winter, and spring other than 
Durum. 
Wind turbines. See Renewable energy systems. 
2012 Census of Agriculture APPENDIX A - 9 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
