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 
$25,000 to 
$49,999 
$10,000 to 
$24,999 
$5,000 to 
$9,999 
$2,500 to 
$4,999 
$1,000 to 
$2,499 
Less than 
$1,000 
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 
1,215 
2,671 
2,968 
3,087 
3,494 
8,139 
acres 
296,433 
484,915 
371,667 
361,374 
320,905 
662,693 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
132 
174 
154 
143 
115 
452 
acres 
51,748 
65,075 
29,058 
36,586 
26,784 
73,285 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
1,054 
2,483 
2,760 
2,893 
3,287 
7,666 
acres 
224,301 
416,945 
309,821 
291,409 
289,216 
576,533 
Partnership 
farms 
130 
138 
141 
149 
154 
353 
acres 
67,228 
54,821 
(D) 
29,256 
32,843 
67,502 
Registered under state law 
farms 
83 
89 
92 
103 
98 
239 
acres 
45,446 
48,179 
20,534 
20,492 
28,180 
52,034 
Corporation 
farms 
90 
106 
80 
105 
107 
252 
acres 
(D) 
47,662 
(D) 
53,922 
20,579 
71,977 
Family held 
farms 
75 
93 
70 
85 
97 
235 
acres 
(D) 
43,058 
55,077 
51,492 
19,528 
44,092 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
2 
- 
2 
5 
8 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
73 
93 
68 
80 
89 
235 
Other than family held 
farms 
15 
13 
10 
20 
10 
17 
acres 
(D) 
4,604 
(D) 
2,430 
1,051 
27,885 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
3 
10 or less stockholders 
farms 
15 
13 
10 
20 
10 
14 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
11 
23 
59 
36 
29 
87 
acres 
(D) 
13,529 
42,891 
25,892 
4,901 
1 1 ,252 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
427 
690 
580 
475 
494 
1,153 
workers 
1,184 
1,757 
1,284 
1,194 
1,194 
2,656 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
148 
195 
158 
157 
158 
463 
workers 
248 
336 
303 
448 
267 
860 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
361 
568 
464 
351 
384 
833 
workers 
936 
1,421 
981 
746 
927 
1,796 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
9 
8 
3 
7 
11 
9 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
2 
- 
7 
1 
- 
2 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
624 
1,281 
1,361 
1,390 
1,551 
3,866 
workers 
1,402 
2,850 
2,940 
3,001 
3,213 
8,538 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
51 
138 
263 
292 
422 
900 
1 0 to 49 acres 
260 
566 
927 
1,227 
1,523 
4,192 
50 to 69 acres 
85 
292 
367 
321 
396 
968 
70 to 99 acres 
105 
305 
404 
383 
356 
692 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
151 
353 
338 
307 
258 
546 
140 to 1 79 acres 
110 
241 
190 
156 
163 
278 
180 to 219 acres 
93 
185 
147 
129 
105 
208 
220 to 259 acres 
79 
146 
82 
86 
87 
125 
260 to 499 acres 
221 
333 
207 
156 
179 
263 
500 to 999 acres 
89 
131 
79 
91 
70 
120 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
31 
41 
25 
18 
13 
33 
2,000 acres or more 
10 
19 
11 
17 
5 
33 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
229 
296 
347 
206 
170 
98 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
113 
240 
243 
200 
92 
22 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
84 
163 
129 
136 
81 
246 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
91 
157 
79 
50 
67 
155 
Other crop farming (1119) 
252 
660 
905 
1,199 
1,532 
2,355 
Tobacco farming (1 1 191) 
4 
2 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
24 
34 
17 
2 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
224 
624 
888 
1,197 
1,531 
2,355 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
354 
996 
936 
910 
775 
1,653 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
14 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
7 
5 
20 
26 
58 
75 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
12 
10 
39 
71 
126 
363 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
7 
27 
52 
101 
229 
682 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
136 
196 
290 
284 
447 
2,695 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
574 
1,366 
1,196 
1,084 
936 
2,029 
number 
36,370 
51,010 
25,619 
15,965 
9,743 
23,054 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
53 
127 
227 
409 
514 
1,283 
10 to 49 
220 
870 
906 
656 
418 
700 
50 to 99 
194 
335 
56 
19 
4 
34 
1 00 to 1 99 
91 
29 
7 
- 
- 
9 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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