Table 61. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race: 2012 (continued) 
[Data were collected for a maximum of three operators. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 
Characteristics 
Any operator reporting race as- 
Any operator 
reporting ethnicity 
as Spanish, 
Hispanic, or 
Latino origin 
American Indian 
or Alaska Native 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Asian 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Black or African 
American 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Native Hawaiian 
or Other Pacific 
Islander alone or 
in combination with 
other races 
White 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
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 
454 
30 
9 
13 
29,767 
171 
Limited Liability Corporation 
12 
1 
- 
- 
685 
8 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
401 
30 
8 
13 
27,300 
146 
Partnerships 
24 
1 
1 
- 
2,112 
25 
Corporations 
8 
- 
- 
- 
699 
12 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
48 
- 
- 
- 
507 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
243 
13 
2 
4 
19,251 
90 
2 operators 
162 
16 
7 
9 
9,468 
69 
3 operators 
64 
2 
- 
- 
1,464 
22 
4 operators 
9 
- 
- 
- 
311 
2 
5 or more operators 
3 
- 
- 
- 
124 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
184 
29 
7 
9 
10,447 
106 
2 operators 
11 
- 
- 
- 
341 
8 
3 operators 
3 
- 
- 
- 
93 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
10 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
13 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
309 
23 
7 
12 
23,031 
137 
Dial-up 
31 
- 
4 
4 
1,688 
18 
DSL service 
183 
11 
3 
- 
9,711 
69 
Cable modem service 
26 
4 
- 
- 
3,569 
5 
Fiber-optic service 
46 
3 
- 
8 
5,802 
28 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
16 
- 
- 
4 
3,366 
11 
Satellite service 
21 
3 
- 
- 
2,369 
13 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
10 
- 
- 
- 
342 
8 
Other Internet service 
5 
2 
- 
- 
379 
- 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
14 
- 
- 
- 
637 
16 
acres 
53,270 
- 
- 
- 
1,815,832 
35,607 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
373 
28 
9 
13 
24,187 
151 
2 households 
73 
3 
- 
- 
4,708 
23 
3 households 
27 
- 
- 
- 
1,045 
6 
4 households 
4 
- 
- 
- 
382 
3 
5 or more households 
4 
- 
- 
- 
296 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
322 
20 
5 
4 
13,617 
69 
25 to 49 percent 
46 
2 
3 
5 
3,011 
9 
50 to 74 percent 
59 
3 
1 
- 
4,522 
36 
75 to 99 percent 
32 
4 
- 
4 
5,139 
36 
1 00 percent 
22 
2 
- 
- 
4,329 
33 
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