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 
PRINCIPAL OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS 
Sex of operator: 
Male 
60,280 
800 
773 
964 
1,529 
2,061 
Female 
7,770 
28 
29 
38 
47 
113 
Primary occupation: 
Farming 
28,454 
756 
695 
805 
1,181 
1,389 
Other 
39,596 
72 
107 
197 
395 
785 
Place of residence: 
On farm operated 
55,153 
642 
653 
848 
1,307 
1,784 
Not on farm operated 
12,897 
186 
149 
154 
269 
390 
Days worked off farm: 
None 
25,071 
606 
558 
620 
886 
978 
Any 
42,979 
222 
244 
382 
690 
1,196 
1 to 49 days 
4,950 
32 
39 
49 
93 
148 
50 to 99 days 
3,204 
12 
17 
27 
61 
113 
100 to 199 days 
5,808 
12 
36 
55 
97 
202 
200 days or more 
29,017 
166 
152 
251 
439 
733 
Years on present farm: 
2 years or less 
2,132 
11 
13 
18 
34 
54 
3 or 4 years 
3,112 
11 
23 
24 
64 
56 
5 to 9 years 
9,728 
43 
73 
69 
101 
160 
10 years or more 
53,078 
763 
693 
891 
1,377 
1,904 
Average years on present farm 
22.8 
29.5 
28.3 
27.5 
28.3 
28.2 
Years operating any farm (see text): 
2 years or less 
1,465 
4 
5 
13 
25 
44 
3 or 4 years 
2,514 
7 
10 
21 
45 
37 
5 to 9 years 
8,227 
30 
56 
53 
82 
123 
10 years or more 
55,844 
787 
731 
915 
1,424 
1,970 
Average years operating any farm 
25.0 
31.1 
30.3 
29.5 
30.8 
30.5 
Age group: 
Under 25 years 
259 
- 
1 
18 
16 
8 
25 to 34 years 
2,564 
35 
37 
49 
106 
97 
35 to 44 years 
6,768 
104 
99 
154 
156 
232 
45 to 49 years 
6,011 
102 
92 
82 
146 
172 
50 to 54 years 
8,130 
123 
113 
164 
178 
276 
55 to 59 years 
9,452 
156 
121 
150 
249 
311 
60 to 64 years 
10,305 
112 
122 
136 
223 
310 
65 to 69 years 
9,268 
89 
98 
119 
201 
285 
70 years and over 
15,293 
107 
119 
130 
301 
483 
Average age 
59.2 
55.8 
56.3 
55.1 
57.3 
58.7 
Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino origin (see text) 
467 
2 
2 
2 
8 
5 
Race: 
American Indian or Alaska Native 
281 
- 
2 
2 
3 
9 
Asian 
87 
7 
2 
11 
1 
- 
Black or African American 
992 
2 
3 
6 
7 
12 
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
White 
66,460 
815 
794 
981 
1,563 
2,143 
More than one race reported 
226 
4 
1 
2 
2 
10 
Farms by number of persons living in 
operator's household: 
1 person 
9,341 
72 
60 
115 
183 
209 
2 people 
36,351 
412 
384 
448 
774 
1,190 
3 people 
10,289 
122 
139 
159 
228 
347 
4 people 
8,020 
139 
158 
173 
249 
285 
5 or more people 
4,049 
83 
61 
107 
142 
143 
Percent of operator's total 
household income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
55,478 
124 
123 
245 
495 
928 
25 to 49 percent 
5,109 
40 
80 
113 
221 
424 
50 to 74 percent 
3,984 
125 
162 
224 
375 
477 
75 to 99 percent 
1,911 
275 
233 
196 
275 
206 
1 00 percent 
1,568 
264 
204 
224 
210 
139 
Operator is a hired manager farms 
1,107 
63 
37 
52 
60 
44 
acres 
378,193 
126,068 
46,242 
47,307 
30,812 
17,197 
Farms with- 
Internet access 
44,001 
713 
648 
755 
1,162 
1,465 
Dial-up service 
4,836 
43 
57 
102 
152 
178 
DSL service 
17,579 
320 
325 
330 
519 
606 
Cable modem service 
8,811 
79 
79 
110 
188 
263 
Fiber-optic service 
1,322 
35 
20 
16 
39 
52 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer 
or cell phone 
9,093 
182 
129 
142 
230 
281 
Satellite service 
6,226 
147 
110 
135 
154 
201 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
988 
23 
17 
14 
16 
41 
Other Internet service 
494 
8 
8 
6 
7 
11 
Farms by number of households sharing 
in net income of operation: 
1 household 
54,168 
450 
536 
685 
1,113 
1,521 
2 households 
1 1 ,363 
236 
188 
241 
324 
532 
3 households 
1,575 
93 
51 
42 
108 
70 
4 households 
657 
39 
12 
19 
20 
36 
5 or more households 
287 
10 
15 
15 
11 
15 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
122 Tennessee 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
