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 
1,165 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
12 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
104 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
919 
918 
- 
- 
8 
16 
4 
- 
Partnerships 
144 
110 
- 
- 
5 
- 
- 
- 
Corporations 
149 
176 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
31 
15 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
581 
670 
- 
- 
8 
8 
4 
- 
2 operators 
547 
445 
- 
- 
5 
8 
- 
- 
3 operators 
91 
84 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
18 
12 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
6 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
638 
562 
- 
- 
1 
12 
- 
- 
2 operators 
53 
52 
- 
- 
4 
- 
- 
- 
3 operators 
7 
1 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
1,006 
798 
- 
- 
8 
9 
4 
- 
Dial-up 
31 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
130 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
522 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
268 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
108 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
44 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
16 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
7 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
74 
79 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
- 
acres 
12,521 
8,059 
- 
- 
- 
4 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
1,078 
1,005 
_ 
_ 
13 
16 
4 
_ 
2 households 
123 
135 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 households 
30 
56 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
4 households 
3 
15 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
9 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
901 
907 
- 
- 
13 
8 
4 
- 
25 to 49 percent 
129 
108 
- 
- 
- 
8 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
71 
90 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
56 
63 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
86 
51 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
--continued 
46 Rhode Island 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
