Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
FERTILIZERS AND CHEMICALS 
Commercial fertilizer, lime, and soil 
conditioners used 
Manure used 
farms 
acres treated 
farms 
acres treated 
Acres treated to control- 
Insects farms 
acres 
Weeds, grass, or brush farms 
acres 
Nematodes farms 
acres 
Diseases in crops and orchards farms 
acres 
Chemicals used to control growth, 
thin fruit, ripen, or defoliate farms 
acres on which used 
LAND USE PRACTICES 
Land drained by tile farms 
acres 
Land artificially drained by ditches farms 
acres 
Land under conservation easement farms 
acres 
Cropland on which no-till practices were 
used farms 
acres 
Cropland on which conservation tillage, 
including no till, practices were 
used farms 
acres 
Cropland on which conventional tillage 
practices were used farms 
acres 
Cropland planted to a cover crop 
(excluding CRP) farms 
acres 
ENERGY 
Renewable energy producing systems farms 
Solar panels farms 
Wind turbines farms 
Methane digesters farms 
Geoexchange systems farms 
Small hydro systems farms 
Biodiesel farms 
Ethanol farms 
Other farms 
Wind rights leased to others farms 
TENURE 
Full owners farms 
Part owners farms 
Tenants farms 
OWNED AND RENTED LAND 
Land owned farms 
acres 
Owned land in farms farms 
acres 
Land rented or leased from others farms 
acres 
Rented or leased land in farms farms 
acres 
Land rented or leased to others farms 
acres 
NUMBER OF OPERATORS 
Total operators number 
Farms by number of operators: 
1 operator 
2 operators 
3 operators 
4 operators 
5 or more operators 
Total women operators number 
Farms by number of women operators: 
1 operator 
2 operators 
3 operators 
4 operators 
5 or more operators 
Family or 
individual 
Partnership 
Total 
Registered 
under 
state law 
14,168 
12,106 
1,373 
1,076 
3,089,983 
1 ,395,270 
1,451,677 
1,300,121 
3,779 
3,347 
267 
183 
380,456 
260,447 
80,015 
60,055 
5,637 
4,298 
931 
792 
2,425,471 
815,681 
1,412,296 
1,310,115 
11,118 
9,157 
1,298 
1,059 
3,780,101 
1,503,107 
1,968,371 
1,790,229 
852 
608 
179 
152 
319,154 
(D) 
168,508 
156,222 
1,578 
1,078 
348 
316 
709,504 
221,831 
419,939 
390,895 
1,038 
624 
334 
292 
548,525 
171,537 
342,384 
305,625 
404 
349 
36 
29 
33,013 
21,628 
6,095 
5,646 
4,827 
3,845 
641 
529 
1,661,892 
592,519 
928,580 
835,303 
1,257 
977 
186 
153 
187,943 
95,507 
61,536 
58,000 
1,852 
1,331 
375 
311 
620,535 
238,845 
329,885 
304,010 
1,510 
997 
389 
334 
908,660 
300,230 
544,343 
505,980 
4,931 
3,743 
854 
716 
2,157,189 
760,623 
1,206,235 
1 ,089,204 
1,019 
819 
129 
96 
66,069 
31,572 
27,712 
24,042 
275 
230 
21 
19 
225 
186 
17 
15 
16 
16 
- 
- 
6 
2 
2 
2 
23 
22 
1 
1 
6 
6 
_ 
_ 
1 
- 
1 
1 
14 
10 
3 
3 
4 
2 
2 
2 
27,734 
24,720 
1,646 
1,117 
7,963 
6,839 
774 
569 
2,379 
1,757 
451 
406 
35,763 
31,612 
2,430 
1,695 
7,716,572 
5,319,808 
1,421,646 
1,141,276 
35,697 
31,559 
2,420 
1,686 
6,957,468 
4,872,732 
1,244,931 
1,006,334 
10,397 
8,646 
1,229 
979 
4,020,008 
1,820,210 
1,885,104 
1,691,580 
10,342 
8,596 
1,225 
975 
3,973,612 
1,801,463 
1,859,536 
1,678,603 
3,900 
3,147 
461 
346 
805,500 
465,823 
202,283 
147,919 
55,568 
47,277 
5,279 
3,914 
23,705 
21,383 
1,221 
857 
12,040 
10,334 
1,149 
847 
1,869 
1,331 
357 
276 
284 
173 
84 
66 
178 
95 
60 
46 
16,124 
14,106 
1,247 
918 
14,200 
12,723 
885 
642 
753 
573 
114 
83 
98 
55 
29 
21 
12 
10 
2 
2 
13 
6 
6 
6 
See footnote(s) at end of table. 
-continued 
144 Mississippi 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
