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 
7,362 
6,168 
463 
321 
acres 
469,987 
321,592 
58,555 
43,864 
Limited Liability Corporation farms 
475 
270 
173 
160 
acres 
42,611 
18,756 
21,198 
19,612 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual farms 
6,168 
6,168 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
Partnership farms 
583 
- 
583 
388 
acres 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
Registered under state law farms 
388 
- 
388 
388 
acres 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
Corporation farms 
719 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
105,800 
- 
- 
- 
Family held farms 
578 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
82,550 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders farms 
10 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
568 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held farms 
141 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
23,250 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders farms 
2 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
139 
- 
- 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc farms 
285 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
- 
- 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor farms 
2,534 
1,546 
255 
189 
workers 
15,649 
6,369 
1,895 
1,423 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more farms 
1,500 
732 
176 
129 
workers 
6,257 
2,001 
780 
525 
Less than 150 days farms 
1,893 
1,176 
189 
138 
workers 
9,392 
4,368 
1,115 
898 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) farms 
124 
54 
19 
16 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) farms 
8 
8 
Unpaid workers (see text) farms 
3,967 
3,322 
257 
188 
workers 
9,760 
8,116 
635 
460 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
2,322 
1,958 
140 
81 
1 0 to 49 acres 
2,913 
2,354 
175 
120 
50 to 69 acres 
570 
474 
31 
26 
70 to 99 acres 
555 
437 
48 
32 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
467 
372 
40 
28 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
241 
190 
20 
15 
180 to 219 acres 
197 
116 
27 
10 
220 to 259 acres 
108 
68 
19 
8 
260 to 499 acres 
269 
165 
55 
45 
500 to 999 acres 
81 
26 
23 
18 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
25 
8 
5 
5 
2,000 acres or more 
7 
- 
- 
- 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
41 
34 
4 
4 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
923 
706 
110 
47 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
779 
519 
70 
47 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
968 
754 
57 
34 
Other crop farming (1 1 19) 
1,502 
1,271 
123 
93 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
11 
7 
3 
2 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
1,491 
1,264 
120 
91 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
620 
572 
13 
10 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
8 
5 
1 
1 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
147 
83 
36 
31 
Hog and pig farming (1 122) 
135 
126 
6 
6 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
380 
323 
21 
19 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
365 
336 
16 
10 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
1,887 
1,439 
126 
86 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory farms 
1,423 
1,171 
118 
85 
number 
35,703 
17,338 
10,277 
8,954 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
872 
773 
48 
35 
1 0 to 49 
383 
307 
29 
15 
50 to 99 
87 
66 
12 
9 
100 to 199 
46 
18 
17 
15 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
148 Massachusetts 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
