Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Corporation 
Other- 
Item 
Family held 
Other than family held 
cooperative. 
Total 
Total 
1 0 or less 
stockholders 
Total 
1 0 or less 
stockholders 
estate or trust, 
institutional, etc. 
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 
farms 
610 
579 
570 
31 
28 
406 
acres 
1,412,190 
1,342,027 
1,321,312 
70,163 
(D) 
937,238 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
18 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 1 ,457 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Partnership 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Registered under state law 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corporation 
farms 
707 
662 
652 
45 
42 
- 
acres 
1 ,578,330 
1,504,821 
1 ,480,933 
73,509 
(D) 
- 
Family held 
farms 
662 
662 
652 
- 
- 
acres 
1,504,821 
1,504,821 
1 ,480,933 
- 
- 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
10 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
652 
652 
652 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held 
farms 
45 
_ 
_ 
45 
42 
_ 
acres 
73,509 
- 
- 
73,509 
(D) 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
3 
- 
- 
3 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
42 
- 
- 
42 
42 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
552 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1,032,380 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
509 
491 
481 
18 
16 
123 
workers 
2,810 
2,556 
2,531 
254 
(D) 
468 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
386 
373 
369 
13 
11 
60 
workers 
1,147 
1,069 
1,060 
78 
(D) 
193 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
345 
332 
325 
13 
13 
87 
workers 
1,663 
1,487 
1,471 
176 
176 
275 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
36 
36 
36 
. 
. 
1 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
1 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
172 
157 
156 
15 
14 
135 
workers 
350 
317 
(D) 
33 
(D) 
308 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
28 
23 
23 
5 
5 
12 
1 0 to 49 acres 
25 
25 
25 
- 
- 
40 
50 to 69 acres 
12 
10 
10 
2 
2 
24 
70 to 99 acres 
18 
16 
16 
2 
2 
32 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
11 
10 
10 
1 
1 
40 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
27 
25 
25 
2 
2 
85 
180 to 219 acres 
16 
11 
11 
5 
5 
33 
220 to 259 acres 
9 
6 
6 
3 
3 
32 
260 to 499 acres 
46 
40 
40 
6 
5 
120 
500 to 999 acres 
59 
55 
55 
4 
4 
56 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
111 
106 
101 
5 
5 
32 
2,000 acres or more 
345 
335 
330 
10 
8 
46 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
451 
439 
435 
12 
11 
59 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
11 
11 
11 
- 
- 
- 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
2 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
13 
10 
10 
3 
3 
1 
Other crop farming (1119) 
137 
113 
108 
24 
23 
410 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (1 1192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (11193,11194,11199) 
137 
113 
108 
24 
23 
410 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
52 
50 
49 
2 
1 
37 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
4 
4 
4 
- 
- 
1 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
2 
2 
2 
- 
- 
1 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
3 
3 
3 
- 
- 
- 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
30 
27 
27 
3 
3 
41 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
140 
134 
133 
6 
5 
56 
number 
59,119 
57,370 
(D) 
1,749 
(D) 
9,172 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
5 
5 
4 
10 
1 0 to 49 
31 
31 
31 
- 
- 
16 
50 to 99 
23 
20 
20 
3 
3 
1 
100 to 199 
18 
18 
18 
- 
- 
15 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data North Dakota 149 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
