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 
POULTRY - Con. 
Layers sold (see text) farms 
354 
286 
33 
20 
number 
110,454 
(D) 
3,043 
2,193 
Pullets for laying flock replacement 
sold farms 
23 
17 
1 
1 
number 
8,607 
2,907 
(D) 
(D) 
Broilers and other meat-type chickens 
sold farms 
204 
173 
12 
12 
number 
80,913 
62,333 
7,827 
7,827 
Farms with- 
1 to 1,999 
195 
168 
10 
10 
2,000 to 59,999 
9 
5 
2 
2 
60,000 to 99,999 
- 
- 
- 
- 
100,000 or more 
- 
- 
- 
Turkeys inventory (see text) farms 
176 
134 
21 
20 
number 
12,142 
6,275 
2,475 
(D) 
Turkeys sold (see text) farms 
144 
117 
6 
6 
number 
44,795 
7,170 
7,987 
7,987 
CROPS HARVESTED 
Barley for grain farms 
9 
7 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
64 
- 
- 
bushels 
(D) 
1,299 
- 
- 
Irrigated farms 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
" 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
8 
7 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
1 
- 
- 
- 
100 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for grain farms 
56 
33 
10 
6 
acres 
2,810 
(D) 
(D) 
583 
bushels 
401,986 
(D) 
(D) 
86,232 
Irrigated farms 
9 
7 
1 
- 
acres 
54 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
35 
25 
3 
2 
25 to 99 acres 
11 
5 
5 
2 
1 00 to 249 acres 
6 
2 
1 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
4 
1 
1 
1 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Corn for silage or greenchop farms 
163 
80 
43 
40 
acres 
11,872 
3,260 
5,455 
(D) 
tons 
220,172 
54,648 
101,994 
(D) 
Irrigated farms 
7 
2 
- 
acres 
87 
(D) 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
61 
43 
7 
7 
25 to 99 acres 
56 
29 
16 
15 
1 00 to 249 acres 
38 
7 
14 
13 
250 to 499 acres 
8 
1 
6 
5 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
Dry edible beans, excluding limas farms 
8 
8 
- 
- 
acres 
28 
28 
- 
- 
cwt 
669 
669 
- 
- 
Irrigated farms 
1 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
8 
8 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oats for grain farms 
5 
2 
- 
- 
acres 
92 
(D) 
- 
- 
bushels 
6,995 
(D) 
- 
- 
Irrigated farms 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
3 
2 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
2 
- 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Soybeans for beans farms 
10 
7 
1 
1 
acres 
751 
367 
(D) 
(D) 
bushels 
32,722 
14,456 
(D) 
(D) 
Irrigated farms 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Farms by acres harvested: 
1 to 24 acres 
3 
3 
- 
- 
25 to 99 acres 
2 
2 
- 
- 
1 00 to 249 acres 
5 
2 
1 
1 
250 to 499 acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tobacco farms 
22 
14 
6 
5 
acres 
413 
220 
(D) 
117 
pounds 
621,181 
(D) 
280,955 
(□) 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
152 Massachusetts 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
