Table 66. Summary by Combined Government Payments and Market Value of Agricultural Products 
Sold: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
$25,000 to 
$49,999 
$10,000 to 
$24,999 
$5,000 to 
$9,999 
$2,500 to 
$4,999 
$1,000 to 
$2,499 
Less than 
$1,000 
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 
6,748 
12,598 
11,164 
9,444 
9,370 
15,363 
acres 
1,401,888 
1,756,861 
1,041,734 
676,105 
574,055 
929,249 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
269 
431 
270 
261 
235 
520 
acres 
68,520 
63,801 
28,242 
28,761 
19,175 
42,030 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
6,170 
11,849 
10,633 
9,044 
8,998 
14,625 
acres 
1,250,263 
1,629,454 
979,189 
636,197 
537,467 
861,333 
Partnership 
farms 
545 
795 
563 
433 
386 
597 
acres 
137,617 
130,789 
57,652 
43,321 
33,988 
50,422 
Registered under state law 
farms 
293 
443 
288 
235 
198 
387 
acres 
74,679 
72,649 
32,148 
25,133 
15,521 
34,373 
Corporation 
farms 
205 
256 
190 
153 
133 
362 
acres 
47,278 
45,824 
28,210 
16,807 
12,328 
40,329 
Family held 
farms 
185 
221 
181 
131 
122 
304 
acres 
41,064 
40,162 
26,315 
14,262 
10,499 
33,199 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
3 
10 
7 
6 
2 
9 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
182 
211 
174 
125 
120 
295 
Other than family held 
farms 
20 
35 
9 
22 
11 
58 
acres 
6,214 
5,662 
1,895 
2,545 
1,829 
7,130 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
20 
35 
9 
22 
11 
58 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
36 
61 
62 
59 
58 
105 
acres 
11,787 
11,236 
8,821 
6,027 
4,421 
10,143 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
2,453 
3,359 
2,175 
1,660 
1,517 
2,265 
workers 
7,798 
9,100 
5,954 
4,043 
4,062 
6,817 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
580 
649 
367 
329 
290 
609 
workers 
1,104 
1,245 
1,085 
582 
1,006 
2,109 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
2,076 
2,940 
1,916 
1,419 
1,290 
1,868 
workers 
6,694 
7,855 
4,869 
3,461 
3,056 
4,708 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
98 
68 
34 
32 
16 
54 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
36 
26 
6 
5 
4 
10 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
3,113 
5,571 
4,845 
4,060 
3,917 
6,976 
workers 
7,335 
13,065 
1 1 ,230 
9,290 
8,989 
16,195 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
102 
336 
501 
685 
944 
1,677 
1 0 to 49 acres 
632 
2,198 
3,540 
4,163 
4,740 
7,971 
50 to 69 acres 
454 
1,297 
1,778 
1,370 
1,164 
1,790 
70 to 99 acres 
684 
1,956 
1,850 
1,288 
1,026 
1,478 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
1,015 
2,424 
1,660 
989 
792 
1,291 
140 to 1 79 acres 
824 
1,583 
762 
460 
380 
616 
180 to 219 acres 
798 
1,044 
538 
280 
195 
344 
220 to 259 acres 
619 
695 
249 
160 
108 
152 
260 to 499 acres 
1,422 
1,154 
475 
238 
180 
271 
500 to 999 acres 
348 
223 
77 
49 
35 
58 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
51 
39 
13 
6 
10 
37 
2,000 acres or more 
7 
12 
5 
1 
1 
4 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
983 
1,179 
948 
519 
319 
187 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
135 
268 
362 
255 
126 
60 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
24 
120 
151 
128 
89 
182 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
128 
239 
105 
80 
53 
70 
Other crop farming (1119) 
1,533 
3,338 
3,617 
3,997 
4,408 
5,087 
Tobacco farming (1 1 191) 
558 
455 
164 
51 
11 
1 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
975 
2,883 
3,453 
3,946 
4,397 
5,086 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
3,624 
6,879 
5,334 
3,556 
2,834 
4,454 
Cattle feedlots (1 121 12) 
135 
186 
38 
3 
1 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
30 
6 
8 
2 
1 
62 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
- 
11 
18 
28 
46 
102 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
19 
21 
68 
97 
292 
540 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
38 
96 
173 
256 
416 
760 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
307 
618 
626 
768 
990 
4,185 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
4,990 
8,638 
6,264 
4,075 
3,407 
5,388 
number 
349,728 
332,039 
139,446 
64,907 
44,264 
78,417 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
159 
597 
1,156 
1,457 
1,879 
3,059 
10 to 49 
1,862 
5,750 
4,731 
2,484 
1,416 
2,098 
50 to 99 
1,964 
2,038 
330 
112 
92 
183 
1 00 to 1 99 
875 
231 
41 
21 
10 
35 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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