Table 61. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race: 2012 (continued) 
[Data were collected for a maximum of three operators. For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 
Characteristics 
Any operator reporting race as- 
Any operator 
reporting ethnicity 
as Spanish, 
Hispanic, or 
Latino origin 
American Indian 
or Alaska Native 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Asian 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Black or African 
American 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
Native Hawaiian 
or Other Pacific 
Islander alone or 
in combination with 
other races 
White 
alone or in 
combination with 
other races 
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 
16 
14 
9 
- 
1,149 
16 
Limited Liability Corporation 
- 
1 
- 
- 
104 
2 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
7 
10 
9 
- 
907 
11 
Partnerships 
9 
5 
- 
- 
140 
5 
Corporations 
- 
1 
- 
- 
149 
1 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust. 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
- 
- 
31 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
6 
8 
4 
- 
569 
6 
2 operators 
8 
7 
5 
- 
543 
10 
3 operators 
2 
1 
- 
- 
91 
1 
4 operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
18 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
6 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
10 
3 
5 
- 
638 
8 
2 operators 
- 
4 
- 
- 
49 
- 
3 operators 
- 
1 
- 
- 
7 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
12 
10 
4 
- 
996 
10 
Dial-up 
- 
- 
- 
- 
31 
- 
DSL service 
1 
1 
- 
- 
129 
2 
Cable modem service 
9 
2 
- 
- 
521 
3 
Fiber-optic service 
3 
5 
- 
- 
264 
5 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
2 
6 
4 
- 
100 
- 
Satellite service 
- 
1 
- 
- 
44 
- 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
16 
- 
Other Internet service 
- 
- 
- 
- 
7 
- 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
74 
1 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
12,521 
(D) 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
16 
15 
9 
_ 
1,062 
15 
2 households 
- 
- 
- 
- 
123 
1 
3 households 
- 
1 
- 
- 
30 
- 
4 households 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 
1 
5 or more households 
- 
- 
- 
- 
9 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
16 
15 
9 
- 
885 
15 
25 to 49 percent 
- 
- 
- 
- 
129 
1 
50 to 74 percent 
- 
1 
- 
- 
71 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
- 
- 
- 
56 
- 
1 00 percent 
- 
- 
- 
- 
86 
1 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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