Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
Farms by- 
Type of organization (see text): 
Operation with 50 percent or more ownership 
interest held by operator and/or persons 
related by blood, marriage, or adoption 
3,893 
(NA) 
307 
(NA) 
13 
(NA) 
9 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
371 
(NA) 
31 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
3,217 
2,542 
216 
328 
9 
5 
3 
3 
Partnerships 
330 
284 
13 
34 
3 
1 
- 
- 
Corporations 
343 
230 
10 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
247 
75 
105 
28 
- 
- 
6 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
1,877 
1,543 
210 
300 
1 
4 
8 
3 
2 operators 
1,930 
1,338 
113 
69 
11 
1 
- 
- 
3 operators 
266 
181 
9 
16 
1 
1 
1 
- 
4 operators 
34 
42 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
30 
27 
12 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
2,360 
1,562 
190 
102 
11 
1 
- 
- 
2 operators 
135 
95 
5 
8 
- 
1 
1 
- 
3 operators 
12 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
7 
1 
6 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
3,216 
2,128 
182 
213 
12 
6 
9 
- 
Dial-up 
229 
(NA) 
24 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
1,146 
(NA) 
28 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
7 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
376 
(NA) 
24 
(NA) 
7 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
181 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
563 
(NA) 
34 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
948 
(NA) 
86 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
57 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
93 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
211 
157 
13 
12 
- 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
1,846,251 
2,389,457 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
3,460 
2,542 
287 
335 
9 
3 
7 
_ 
2 households 
528 
410 
45 
30 
3 
3 
- 
3 
3 households 
96 
111 
11 
19 
- 
1 
2 
- 
4 households 
41 
47 
1 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
12 
21 
- 
3 
1 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
3,043 
2,175 
262 
236 
12 
4 
8 
3 
25 to 49 percent 
249 
295 
17 
79 
- 
1 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
318 
231 
36 
23 
- 
- 
1 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
308 
233 
23 
33 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
219 
197 
6 
19 
1 
2 
- 
- 
--continued 
46 Nevada 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
