Table 68. Summary by North American Industry Classification System: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Oilseed and 
grain farming 
(1111) 
Vegetable 
and melon 
farming 
(1112) 
Fruit and 
tree nut 
farming 
(1113) 
Greenhouse, 
nursery, and 
floriculture 
production 
(1114) 
Other crop farming 
(1119) 
Total 
Tobacco 
farming 
(11191) 
POULTRY - Con. 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens 
sold farms 
704 
167 
24 
7 
16 
42 
- 
number 
10,572,270 
20,529 
3,209 
334 
2,479 
9,187 
- 
Farms with- 
1 to 1,999 
663 
166 
24 
7 
16 
41 
- 
2,000 to 59,999 
22 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
60,000 to 99,999 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100,000 or more 
18 
- 
Turkeys inventory (see text) farms 
402 
53 
14 
1 
6 
28 
- 
number 
4,383,172 
(D) 
222 
(D) 
26 
201 
- 
Turkeys sold (see text) farms 
229 
28 
10 
2 
9 
- 
number 
10,908,278 
(D) 
173 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
CROPS HARVESTED 
Barley for grain farms 
79 
38 
- 
- 
2 
2 
- 
acres 
2,153 
1,121 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
bushels 
84,665 
41,115 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Irrigated farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
50 
25 
- 
- 
2 
1 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
27 
11 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
" 
- 
Corn for grain farms 
47,477 
39,731 
20 
5 
14 
363 
_ 
acres 
13,709,408 
11,907,436 
1,054 
20 
896 
23,739 
- 
bushels 
1,835,358,239 
1,603,477,933 
148,065 
2,550 
96,858 
2,548,555 
- 
Irrigated farms 
529 
472 
- 
- 
- 
3 
- 
acres 
111,521 
103,730 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
5,000 
3,526 
15 
5 
8 
167 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
12,364 
10,426 
2 
- 
4 
144 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
12,359 
10,417 
1 
- 
1 
39 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
9,524 
8,070 
2 
- 
1 
11 
- 
500 acres or more 
8,230 
7,292 
- 
- 
- 
2 
" 
Corn for silage or greenchop farms 
6,934 
3,576 
2 
- 
5 
100 
- 
acres 
392,304 
157,688 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
3,373 
- 
tons 
5,654,303 
2,241,256 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
49,445 
- 
Irrigated farms 
38 
7 
- 
1 
- 
acres 
2,484 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
3,144 
1,934 
2 
- 
5 
55 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
2,851 
1,340 
- 
- 
- 
37 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
705 
231 
- 
- 
- 
8 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
165 
49 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
69 
22 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas farms 
2 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
cwt 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated farms 
2 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
2 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
" 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain farms 
2,594 
1,544 
4 
- 
3 
95 
- 
acres 
57,259 
34,864 
6 
- 
80 
1,494 
- 
bushels 
3,868,538 
2,375,191 
335 
- 
3,951 
95,710 
- 
Irrigated farms 
19 
10 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
356 
263 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
1,916 
1,134 
4 
- 
2 
80 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
607 
365 
- 
- 
1 
15 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
71 
45 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
" 
Sorghum for grain farms 
26 
25 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
751 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
bushels 
58,955 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Irrigated farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
12 
11 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
14 
14 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans farms 
41,710 
36,255 
33 
6 
26 
259 
- 
acres 
9,301,594 
8,448,476 
1,790 
86 
1,849 
16,109 
- 
bushels 
406,951,953 
368,899,755 
64,837 
3,309 
69,470 
603,695 
- 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
182 Iowa 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
