Table 66. Summary by Combined Government Payments and Market Value of Agricultural Products 
Sold: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
All farms 
$1,000,000 or 
more 
$500,000 to 
$999,999 
$250,000 to 
$499,999 
$100,000 to 
$249,999 
$50,000 to 
$99,999 
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 
1,165 
7 
9 
22 
49 
87 
acres 
58,664 
(D) 
(D) 
2,291 
4,689 
4,309 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
104 
3 
8 
5 
acres 
4,185 
- 
- 
412 
(D) 
95 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
919 
1 
3 
8 
22 
54 
acres 
43,332 
(D) 
(D) 
1,109 
2,697 
2,673 
Partnership 
farms 
144 
1 
2 
3 
12 
20 
acres 
11,316 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,207 
1,462 
Registered under state law 
farms 
69 
1 
3 
9 
11 
acres 
7,050 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
1,434 
Corporation 
farms 
149 
6 
11 
14 
20 
27 
acres 
10,420 
(D) 
2,064 
1,277 
(D) 
1,610 
Family held 
farms 
128 
6 
8 
14 
18 
18 
acres 
8,823 
(D) 
1,860 
1,277 
(D) 
290 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
127 
5 
8 
14 
18 
18 
Other than family held 
farms 
21 
_ 
3 
_ 
2 
9 
acres 
1,597 
- 
204 
- 
(D) 
1,320 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
21 
- 
3 
- 
2 
9 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
31 
1 
- 
1 
3 
- 
acres 
4,521 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
394 
9 
16 
26 
50 
61 
workers 
1,869 
126 
202 
257 
336 
282 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
248 
9 
16 
20 
40 
37 
workers 
783 
90 
127 
79 
152 
79 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
277 
5 
7 
22 
31 
48 
workers 
1,086 
36 
75 
178 
184 
203 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
6 
1 
4 
1 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
598 
- 
2 
8 
17 
49 
workers 
1,474 
- 
(D) 
22 
(D) 
115 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
433 
_ 
_ 
1 
20 
34 
1 0 to 49 acres 
451 
- 
3 
7 
17 
40 
50 to 69 acres 
83 
- 
1 
1 
1 
6 
70 to 99 acres 
97 
1 
2 
2 
3 
3 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
63 
- 
1 
6 
3 
9 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
35 
1 
1 
5 
4 
- 
180 to 219 acres 
20 
- 
1 
- 
3 
- 
220 to 259 acres 
20 
- 
1 
4 
1 
- 
260 to 499 acres 
30 
2 
5 
- 
4 
9 
500 to 999 acres 
7 
4 
1 
- 
1 
- 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2,000 acres or more 
3 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
7 
4 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
139 
1 
2 
7 
3 
21 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
65 
1 
1 
2 
5 
8 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
256 
6 
10 
8 
28 
48 
Other crop farming (1119) 
196 
- 
- 
- 
3 
11 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 193,1 1 194,1 1199) 
196 
_ 
_ 
_ 
3 
11 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
154 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
7 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
13 
1 
2 
4 
5 
1 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
20 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
88 
- 
1 
2 
2 
4 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
54 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
244 
- 
- 
3 
7 
4 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
300 
1 
2 
6 
11 
9 
number 
4,667 
(D) 
(D) 
552 
811 
149 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
209 
1 
4 
10 to 49 
65 
- 
- 
- 
4 
5 
50 to 99 
15 
- 
- 
3 
4 
- 
100 to 199 
10 
- 
2 
2 
3 
- 
See footnote(s) at end of table. --continued 
116 Rhode Island 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
