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 
24,460 
809 
355 
330 
553 
839 
acres 
4,460,442 
892,253 
326,826 
216,934 
228,873 
297,569 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
1,604 
158 
61 
36 
87 
92 
acres 
675,723 
210,605 
67,198 
29,437 
49,054 
36,893 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
22,393 
539 
254 
259 
452 
746 
acres 
3,409,872 
485,961 
225,314 
160,990 
184,949 
244,433 
Partnership 
farms 
1,482 
192 
59 
36 
70 
60 
acres 
849,702 
387,109 
(D) 
29,256 
47,019 
24,564 
Registered under state law 
farms 
1,022 
149 
44 
23 
58 
44 
acres 
625,241 
287,442 
45,322 
16,880 
38,572 
22,160 
Corporation 
farms 
1,108 
150 
67 
46 
48 
57 
acres 
572,105 
140,610 
(D) 
25,382 
27,087 
43,563 
Family held 
farms 
968 
129 
60 
42 
40 
42 
acres 
488,941 
125,375 
(D) 
(D) 
18,409 
37,490 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
25 
3 
1 
1 
- 
3 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
943 
126 
59 
41 
40 
39 
Other than family held 
farms 
140 
21 
7 
4 
8 
15 
acres 
83,164 
15,235 
(D) 
(D) 
8,678 
6,073 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
10 
3 
1 
1 
2 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
130 
18 
6 
3 
6 
15 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
283 
5 
1 
6 
13 
13 
acres 
139,565 
16,390 
(D) 
10,340 
6,418 
6,532 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
5,851 
729 
306 
250 
337 
410 
workers 
23,398 
8,683 
1,479 
1,385 
1,414 
1,168 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
2,685 
624 
241 
174 
204 
163 
workers 
9,020 
4,275 
758 
679 
504 
342 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
4,235 
410 
182 
160 
221 
301 
workers 
14,378 
4,408 
721 
706 
910 
826 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
200 
69 
27 
21 
27 
9 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
23 
2 
1 
- 
3 
5 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
11,350 
301 
120 
131 
268 
457 
workers 
24,548 
604 
226 
244 
519 
1,011 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
2,135 
14 
10 
7 
11 
27 
1 0 to 49 acres 
8,996 
92 
30 
23 
37 
119 
50 to 69 acres 
2,538 
49 
16 
10 
10 
24 
70 to 99 acres 
2,382 
41 
14 
10 
24 
48 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
2,152 
56 
9 
10 
37 
87 
140 to 179 acres 
1,292 
40 
6 
13 
20 
75 
180 to 219 acres 
1,032 
38 
10 
8 
38 
71 
220 to 259 acres 
787 
31 
4 
15 
51 
81 
260 to 499 acres 
1,912 
94 
31 
52 
192 
184 
500 to 999 acres 
1,121 
90 
92 
138 
114 
107 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
555 
153 
123 
47 
36 
35 
2,000 acres or more 
364 
188 
36 
14 
13 
18 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
2,100 
118 
102 
101 
193 
240 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
1,062 
19 
4 
13 
33 
83 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
936 
10 
8 
10 
27 
42 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
805 
29 
20 
29 
49 
79 
Other crop farming (1 1 19) 
7,701 
154 
139 
119 
186 
200 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
55 
6 
10 
15 
15 
2 
Cotton farming (11192) 
368 
40 
45 
58 
95 
53 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
7,278 
108 
84 
46 
76 
145 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
5,851 
2 
8 
16 
55 
146 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
80 
25 
16 
11 
6 
8 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
236 
21 
5 
13 
5 
1 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
1,238 
506 
76 
24 
8 
3 
Sheep and goat farming (1 1 24) 
1,100 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
4,157 
2 
3 
11 
21 
72 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
8,121 
286 
98 
76 
140 
336 
number 
297,286 
52,586 
21,540 
15,991 
18,260 
27,148 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
2,665 
7 
3 
3 
10 
29 
10 to 49 
4,072 
97 
29 
16 
43 
117 
50 to 99 
841 
63 
14 
15 
25 
82 
100 to 199 
325 
49 
17 
16 
27 
80 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
124 South Carolina 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
