Table 69. Summary by Age and Primary Occupation of Principal Operator: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS 
Commercial fertilizer, lime, and soil 
conditioners used farms 
acres treated 
Manure used farms 
acres treated 
Acres treated to control - 
Insects farms 
acres 
Weeds, grass, or brush farms 
acres 
Nematodes farms 
acres 
Diseases in crops and orchards farms 
acres 
Chemicals used to control growth, 
thin fruit, ripen, or defoliate farms 
acres on which used 
LAND USE PRACTICES 
Land drained by tile farms 
acres 
Land artificially drained by ditches farms 
acres 
Land under conservation easement farms 
acres 
Crepland on which no-till practices were 
used farms 
acres 
Cropland on which conservation tillage, 
including no till, practices were 
used farms 
acres 
Cropland on which conventional tillage 
practices were used farms 
acres 
Cropland planted to a cover crop 
(excluding CRP) farms 
acres 
ENERGY 
Renewable energy producing systems farms 
Solar panels farms 
Wind turbines farms 
Methane digesters farms 
Geoexchange systems farms 
Small hydro systems farms 
Biodiesel farms 
Ethanol farms 
Other farms 
Wind rights leased to others farms 
TENURE 
Full owners farms 
Part owners farms 
Tenants farms 
OWNED AND RENTED LAND 
Land owned farms 
acres 
Owned land in farms farms 
Land rented or leased from others farms 
acres 
Rented or leased land in farms farms 
acres 
Land rented or leased to others farms 
NUMBER OF OPERATORS 
Total operators number 
Farms by number of operators: 
1 operator 
2 operators 
3 operators 
4 operators 
5 or more operators 
Total women operators number 
Farms by number of women operators: 
1 operator 
2 operators 
3 operators 
4 operators 
5 or more operators 
See footnote(s) at end of table. 
Other occupations 
Age of operator (years) 
Under 25 
25 to 34 
35 to 44 
45 to 54 
55 to 64 
65 and over 
3 
12 
19 
76 
55 
46 
9 
16 
211 
1,027 
1,428 
993 
- 
- 
13 
58 
22 
13 
- 
- 
21 
345 
398 
158 
6 
12 
24 
35 
16 
- 
8 
30 
462 
720 
385 
- 
7 
16 
36 
30 
17 
- 
18 
36 
539 
945 
586 
- 
2 
1 
14 
5 
3 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
55 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
6 
4 
17 
16 
6 
- 
(D) 
8 
126 
398 
290 
_ 
_ 
_ 
6 
3 
1 
18 
15 
(D) 
1 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
2 
3 
2 
6 
- 
- 
(D) 
43 
(D) 
22 
- 
2 
4 
14 
10 
3 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
726 
1,076 
115 
_ 
_ 
1 
7 
6 
6 
- 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
83 
12 
6 
11 
1 
11 
17 
- 
(D) 
29 
(D) 
118 
50 
3 
4 
8 
30 
17 
5 
3 
17 
14 
543 
453 
459 
_ 
1 
6 
8 
8 
4 
(D) 
6 
(D) 
(D) 
18 
17 
9 
- 
- 
- 
1 
5 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
1 
- 
3 
12 
59 
170 
124 
134 
- 
10 
6 
39 
16 
12 
■ 
10 
2 
11 
6 
10 
3 
22 
65 
209 
140 
146 
225 
640 
1,854 
1 1 ,090 
7,078 
6,684 
3 
22 
65 
209 
140 
146 
(D) 
638 
1,854 
11,015 
(D) 
(D) 
_ 
20 
8 
50 
22 
22 
- 
(D) 
244 
1,332 
1,286 
514 
- 
20 
8 
50 
22 
22 
- 
116 
(D) 
1,332 
1,286 
(D) 
_ 
1 
_ 
3 
8 
6 
(D) 
(D) 
154 
303 
6 
59 
124 
382 
238 
239 
_ 
15 
17 
93 
66 
87 
3 
15 
46 
101 
71 
60 
- 
- 
1 
18 
7 
6 
- 
- 
3 
7 
1 
2 
- 
2 
- 
1 
1 
1 
3 
19 
53 
156 
84 
70 
3 
11 
47 
120 
70 
51 
- 
- 
3 
18 
7 
8 
1 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
-continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data Rhode Island 187 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
