Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Family or 
individual 
Partnership 
Total 
Registered 
under 
state law 
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 
22,393 
1,062 
777 
acres 
4,460,442 
3,409,872 
605,599 
462,567 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
1,604 
1,103 
476 
452 
acres 
675,723 
364,064 
305,577 
280,244 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
22,393 
22,393 
- 
- 
acres 
3,409,872 
3,409,872 
- 
- 
Partnership 
farms 
1,482 
- 
1,482 
1,022 
acres 
849,702 
- 
849,702 
625,241 
Registered under state law 
farms 
1,022 
- 
1,022 
1,022 
acres 
625,241 
- 
625,241 
625,241 
Corporation 
farms 
1,108 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
572,105 
- 
- 
- 
Family held 
farms 
968 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
488,941 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
25 
- 
- 
- 
10 or less stockholders 
farms 
943 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held 
farms 
140 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
83,164 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
10 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
130 
- 
- 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
283 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
139,565 
- 
- 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
5,851 
4,618 
600 
441 
workers 
23,398 
12,853 
4,798 
4,038 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
2,685 
1,792 
416 
319 
workers 
9,020 
3,959 
1,710 
1,411 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
4,235 
3,519 
369 
257 
workers 
14,378 
8,894 
3,088 
2,627 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
200 
120 
35 
29 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
23 
18 
2 
1 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
11,350 
10,112 
663 
448 
workers 
24,548 
21,752 
1,573 
1,099 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
2,135 
1,969 
70 
47 
1 0 to 49 acres 
8,996 
8,331 
321 
189 
50 to 69 acres 
2,538 
2,295 
121 
87 
70 to 99 acres 
2,382 
2,212 
93 
59 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
2,152 
1,934 
118 
88 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
1,292 
1,165 
56 
34 
180 to 219 acres 
1,032 
906 
72 
45 
220 to 259 acres 
787 
659 
82 
55 
260 to 499 acres 
1,912 
1,562 
179 
127 
500 to 999 acres 
1,121 
838 
148 
120 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
555 
350 
106 
84 
2,000 acres or more 
364 
172 
116 
87 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
2,100 
1,806 
166 
109 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
1,062 
961 
46 
33 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
936 
843 
31 
20 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
805 
594 
64 
57 
Other crop farming (1 1 19) 
7,701 
6,767 
517 
370 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
55 
46 
6 
5 
Cotton farming (11192) 
368 
313 
31 
26 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
7,278 
6,408 
480 
339 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
5,851 
5,341 
326 
194 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
80 
50 
11 
9 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
236 
217 
10 
7 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
1,238 
1,044 
87 
64 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
1,100 
1,030 
30 
14 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
4,157 
3,740 
194 
145 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
8,121 
7,323 
496 
291 
number 
297,286 
228,221 
38,198 
21,794 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
2,665 
2,467 
114 
65 
1 0 to 49 
4,072 
3,740 
230 
131 
50 to 99 
841 
731 
61 
39 
100 to 199 
325 
248 
47 
30 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
150 South Carolina 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
