Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Family or 
individual 
Partnership 
Total 
Registered 
under 
state law 
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 
7,938 
6,929 
438 
263 
acres 
1,314,892 
912,217 
116,818 
82,316 
Limited Liability Corporation farms 
396 
234 
155 
136 
acres 
107,962 
48,489 
58,991 
54,175 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual farms 
6,929 
6,929 
_ 
_ 
acres 
912,217 
912,217 
- 
- 
Partnership farms 
525 
- 
525 
312 
acres 
151,773 
- 
151,773 
1 1 1 ,743 
Registered under state law farms 
312 
- 
312 
312 
acres 
1 1 1 ,743 
- 
1 1 1 ,743 
1 1 1 ,743 
Corporation farms 
582 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
354,808 
- 
- 
- 
Family held farms 
503 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
335,369 
- 
- 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders farms 
8 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
495 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held farms 
79 
_ 
_ 
_ 
acres 
19,439 
- 
- 
- 
More than 1 0 stockholders farms 
7 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
72 
- 
- 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc farms 
137 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
35,306 
- 
- 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor farms 
2,415 
1,710 
254 
144 
workers 
15,072 
7,143 
1,562 
1,034 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more farms 
1,146 
663 
156 
107 
workers 
4,594 
1,386 
680 
512 
Less than 150 days farms 
1,976 
1,413 
202 
110 
workers 
10,478 
5,757 
882 
522 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) farms 
109 
63 
15 
6 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) farms 
16 
16 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) farms 
4,229 
3,631 
296 
175 
workers 
10,698 
9,120 
878 
519 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
1,239 
1,068 
61 
34 
1 0 to 49 acres 
2,278 
2,033 
119 
89 
50 to 69 acres 
622 
534 
47 
17 
70 to 99 acres 
857 
748 
38 
14 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
794 
712 
39 
14 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
521 
434 
41 
20 
180 to 219 acres 
407 
358 
25 
21 
220 to 259 acres 
257 
210 
13 
7 
260 to 499 acres 
654 
496 
62 
34 
500 to 999 acres 
332 
233 
42 
33 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
157 
86 
30 
21 
2,000 acres or more 
55 
17 
8 
8 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
45 
37 
5 
5 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
891 
718 
77 
43 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
681 
576 
40 
22 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
958 
778 
54 
41 
Other crop farming (1119) 
2,340 
2,022 
118 
64 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 193,1 1 194,1 1199) 
2,340 
2,022 
118 
64 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
950 
863 
60 
42 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
14 
12 
1 
1 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
308 
199 
60 
32 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
160 
158 
1 
- 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
209 
183 
13 
6 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
326 
292 
21 
6 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
1,291 
1,091 
75 
50 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory farms 
2,423 
2,060 
182 
107 
number 
86,256 
(D) 
19,606 
14,179 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
1,467 
1,336 
63 
37 
10 to 49 
667 
548 
61 
34 
50 to 99 
113 
78 
21 
10 
100 to 199 
102 
72 
11 
6 
See footnote(s) at end of table. --continued 
148 Maine 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
