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 - Con. 
Operators 
Characteristics 
Native Hawaiian 
or other 
Pacific Islander 
White 
reporting 
more than 
one race 
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 
- 
(NA) 
7,785 
(NA) 
55 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
- 
(NA) 
394 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
- 
3 
6,791 
6,859 
41 
27 
Partnerships 
- 
- 
510 
528 
14 
1 
Corporations 
- 
- 
582 
549 
- 
3 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
135 
78 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
- 
2 
3,697 
3,933 
15 
13 
2 operators 
- 
1 
3,726 
3,523 
33 
15 
3 operators 
- 
- 
436 
425 
7 
2 
4 operators 
- 
- 
119 
87 
- 
1 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
40 
46 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
4,583 
4,320 
40 
21 
2 operators 
- 
- 
345 
297 
3 
2 
3 operators 
- 
- 
21 
40 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
3 
3 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
2 
3 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
- 
- 
6,272 
5,244 
45 
28 
Dial-up 
- 
(NA) 
592 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
DSL service 
- 
(NA) 
2,706 
(NA) 
23 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
- 
(NA) 
1,961 
(NA) 
15 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
- 
(NA) 
122 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
- 
(NA) 
738 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
- 
(NA) 
463 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
- 
(NA) 
262 
(NA) 
9 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
- 
(NA) 
107 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
- 
1 
289 
195 
5 
- 
acres 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
95,465 
585 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
_ 
2 
7,011 
6,676 
48 
30 
2 households 
- 
1 
758 
1,047 
7 
- 
3 households 
- 
- 
140 
163 
- 
- 
4 households 
- 
- 
63 
60 
- 
1 
5 or more households 
- 
- 
46 
68 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
- 
2 
6,036 
6,166 
33 
29 
25 to 49 percent 
- 
- 
572 
561 
5 
1 
50 to 74 percent 
- 
1 
618 
511 
1 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
- 
355 
392 
5 
1 
1 00 percent 
- 
- 
437 
384 
11 
- 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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