Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
Operators reporting one race 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
FARMS AND LAND IN FARMS 
Farms number 
1,243 
1,219 
_ 
_ 
14 
16 
4 
_ 
Land in farms acres 
69,589 
67,819 
- 
- 
95 
138 
(D) 
- 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
433 
353 
_ 
_ 
11 
12 
4 
_ 
1 0 to 49 acres 
451 
484 
- 
- 
3 
4 
- 
- 
50 to 1 79 acres 
278 
308 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 80 to 499 acres 
70 
67 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
11 
7 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
OWNED AND RENTED LAND IN FARMS 
Owned land in farms farms 
1,131 
1,095 
_ 
- 
3 
5 
4 
_ 
acres 
56,988 
53,616 
- 
- 
76 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Rented or leased land in farms farms 
314 
322 
- 
- 
12 
11 
- 
acres 
12,601 
14,203 
- 
- 
19 
(D) 
- 
- 
TENURE 
Full owners farms 
929 
897 
_ 
_ 
2 
5 
4 
_ 
acres 
48,055 
43,062 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Part owners farms 
202 
198 
- 
- 
1 
- 
acres 
17,118 
19,253 
- 
- 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
Tenants farms 
112 
124 
- 
- 
11 
11 
- 
- 
acres 
4,416 
5,504 
- 
- 
14 
(D) 
- 
- 
MARKET VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
SOLD AND GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS 
Total farms 
1,243 
1,219 
_ 
_ 
14 
16 
4 
_ 
$1,000 
61,997 
66,650 
- 
- 
132 
155 
(D) 
- 
Market value of agricultural 
products sold farms 
1,243 
1,219 
- 
- 
14 
16 
4 
- 
$1,000 
59,652 
65,908 
- 
- 
132 
155 
(D) 
- 
Crops, including nursery and 
greenhouse crops farms 
661 
705 
- 
- 
13 
15 
4 
- 
$1,000 
48,981 
55,602 
- 
- 
132 
(D) 
27 
- 
Livestock, poultry, and 
their products farms 
528 
444 
- 
- 
- 
1 
4 
- 
$1,000 
10,671 
10,306 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Government payments farms 
190 
101 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
$1,000 
2,345 
743 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY ECONOMIC CLASS 
Less than $1 ,000 
297 
346 
_ 
_ 
1 
_ 
_ 
_ 
$1 ,000 to $2,499 
105 
127 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
$2,500 to $4,999 
178 
145 
- 
- 
10 
8 
- 
- 
$5,000 to $9,999 
168 
145 
- 
- 
1 
- 
4 
- 
$10,000 to $24,999 
200 
187 
- 
- 
- 
8 
- 
- 
$25,000 to $49,999 
86 
89 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
$50,000 or more 
209 
180 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION (CCC) LOANS 
AND FEDERAL FARM PROGRAM PAYMENTS 
CCC loans (see text) farms 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
$1,000 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Conservation Reserve, Wetlands Reserve, 
Farmable Wetlands, or Conservation 
Reserve Enhancement Programs payments farms 
11 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
$1,000 
38 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other Federal farm program payments farms 
182 
101 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
$1,000 
2,307 
743 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY 
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
7 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
139 
141 
- 
- 
8 
8 
- 
- 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
65 
92 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
256 
252 
- 
- 
5 
7 
- 
- 
Other crop farming (1119) 
196 
218 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and ali other 
crop farming (1 1 1 93, 1 1 1 94, 1 1 1 99) 
196 
218 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
154 
102 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
7 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
13 
34 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
20 
31 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
88 
49 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
54 
53 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
244 
237 
- 
- 
1 
1 
- 
- 
--continued 
44 Rhode Island 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
