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 
57,548 
(NA) 
76 
(NA) 
62 
(NA) 
61 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
2,036 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
52,390 
57,749 
73 
148 
57 
51 
55 
53 
Partnerships 
3,808 
3,265 
2 
3 
3 
1 
5 
- 
Corporations 
2,294 
1,719 
3 
4 
1 
3 
- 
8 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
817 
430 
- 
- 
1 
- 
1 
2 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
32,632 
37,997 
48 
86 
22 
32 
28 
34 
2 operators 
22,068 
20,705 
26 
57 
40 
19 
23 
16 
3 operators 
3,618 
3,418 
4 
12 
- 
4 
5 
9 
4 operators 
649 
727 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
4 
5 or more operators 
342 
316 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
23,933 
23,648 
34 
72 
43 
21 
30 
23 
2 operators 
1,679 
1,422 
1 
3 
- 
- 
4 
7 
3 operators 
185 
161 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
4 operators 
34 
26 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
7 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
36,794 
32,239 
62 
89 
40 
34 
43 
30 
Dial-up 
3,709 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
11 
(NA) 
DSL service 
17,874 
(NA) 
20 
(NA) 
16 
(NA) 
24 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
8,964 
(NA) 
20 
(NA) 
11 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
1,761 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
4,453 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
2,936 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
860 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
277 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
1,410 
1,347 
3 
7 
- 
6 
- 
1 
acres 
398,590 
330,334 
(D) 
1,618 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
50,269 
53,571 
71 
129 
51 
45 
45 
49 
2 households 
6,906 
7,411 
6 
13 
8 
8 
14 
12 
3 households 
1,252 
1,326 
- 
7 
- 
1 
2 
1 
4 households 
500 
488 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
382 
367 
1 
6 
3 
1 
- 
1 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
40,637 
45,833 
57 
119 
48 
39 
57 
55 
25 to 49 percent 
4,018 
3,815 
5 
9 
2 
2 
1 
1 
50 to 74 percent 
4,770 
4,277 
8 
16 
5 
6 
1 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
4,535 
4,478 
5 
8 
1 
3 
2 
7 
1 00 percent 
5,349 
4,760 
3 
3 
6 
5 
- 
- 
--continued 
50 Pennsylvania 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
