Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
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 
48,375 
(NA) 
65 
(NA) 
16 
(NA) 
25 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
1,915 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
42,543 
39,848 
52 
22 
16 
12 
25 
9 
Partnerships 
2,974 
3,616 
3 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
Corporations 
3,784 
3,571 
5 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
institutional, etc 
668 
677 
6 
9 
- 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
28,505 
28,004 
40 
25 
15 
10 
18 
8 
2 operators 
18,111 
16,438 
23 
6 
1 
2 
7 
1 
3 operators 
2,712 
2,511 
2 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
4 operators 
449 
528 
1 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
192 
231 
- 
" 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
18,495 
17,025 
26 
7 
1 
3 
7 
1 
2 operators 
750 
682 
1 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 operators 
61 
73 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
9 
8 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
3 
6 
" 
" 
" 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
37,260 
30,073 
39 
22 
16 
8 
19 
8 
Dial-up 
2,853 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
DSL service 
16,072 
(NA) 
15 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
13 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
4,137 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
2,199 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
6,430 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
8,546 
(NA) 
17 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
777 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
947 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
2,187 
2,284 
4 
4 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
5,168,571 
4,313,574 
7,572 
11,856 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
38,775 
35,766 
59 
24 
15 
12 
25 
8 
2 households 
7,965 
8,427 
7 
9 
1 
1 
- 
1 
3 households 
1,958 
2,137 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 households 
735 
816 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
536 
566 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
22,809 
21,404 
42 
23 
6 
8 
14 
7 
25 to 49 percent 
5,282 
5,510 
- 
2 
7 
- 
- 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
7,545 
7,692 
19 
1 
2 
1 
5 
1 
75 to 99 percent 
8,289 
7,767 
2 
2 
1 
2 
6 
1 
100 percent 
6,044 
5,339 
3 
5 
- 
2 
- 
-continued 
50 Nebraska 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
