Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbois, 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) 
1,140 
(NA) 
9 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
- 
(NA) 
104 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
- 
- 
904 
897 
3 
5 
Partnerships 
- 
- 
133 
110 
6 
- 
Corporations 
- 
- 
148 
176 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
31 
15 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
563 
657 
6 
5 
2 operators 
- 
- 
541 
437 
1 
- 
3 operators 
- 
- 
88 
84 
2 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
18 
12 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
6 
8 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
- 
- 
634 
546 
3 
4 
2 operators 
- 
- 
49 
52 
- 
- 
3 operators 
- 
- 
6 
1 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
2 
2 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
- 
- 
985 
784 
9 
5 
Dial-up 
- 
(NA) 
31 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
- 
(NA) 
128 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
- 
(NA) 
515 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
- 
(NA) 
261 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
- 
(NA) 
97 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
- 
(NA) 
43 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
- 
(NA) 
16 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
- 
(NA) 
7 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
- 
- 
74 
75 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
12,521 
8,055 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
_ 
_ 
1,052 
984 
9 
5 
2 households 
- 
- 
123 
135 
- 
- 
3 households 
- 
- 
29 
56 
- 
- 
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 
- 
- 
875 
894 
9 
5 
25 to 49 percent 
- 
- 
129 
100 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
- 
- 
70 
90 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
- 
56 
63 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
- 
- 
86 
51 
- 
- 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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