Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
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 
21,075 
(NA) 
43 
(NA) 
20 
(NA) 
28 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
721 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
20,009 
22,488 
42 
33 
20 
19 
27 
31 
Partnerships 
893 
856 
1 
5 
- 
- 
1 
3 
Corporations 
429 
209 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
institutional, etc 
158 
65 
- 
- 
- 
1 
1 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
12,448 
14,341 
10 
7 
12 
12 
19 
27 
2 operators 
7,771 
7,857 
26 
30 
5 
5 
10 
7 
3 operators 
1,021 
1,158 
8 
1 
3 
2 
- 
1 
4 operators 
186 
186 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
63 
76 
- 
" 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
8,535 
9,115 
31 
32 
9 
7 
9 
9 
2 operators 
399 
462 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 operators 
41 
49 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
1 
6 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
1 
1 
" 
- 
" 
" 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
13,133 
1 1 ,024 
37 
24 
14 
9 
17 
17 
Dial-up 
1,617 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
DSL service 
5,883 
(NA) 
15 
(NA) 
9 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
2,239 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
360 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
1,338 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
2,506 
(NA) 
12 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
289 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
143 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
329 
248 
- 
- 
1 
- 
1 
1 
acres 
108,528 
74,877 
- 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
17,829 
19,103 
44 
33 
15 
15 
23 
31 
2 households 
3,021 
3,705 
- 
5 
3 
2 
3 
4 
3 households 
396 
503 
- 
- 
2 
1 
1 
- 
4 households 
136 
212 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
- 
5 or more households 
107 
95 
" 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
18,539 
20,744 
39 
31 
16 
13 
23 
31 
25 to 49 percent 
1,263 
1,166 
1 
4 
2 
2 
5 
3 
50 to 74 percent 
921 
980 
3 
1 
- 
1 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
414 
423 
1 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
100 percent 
352 
305 
- 
- 
1 
2 
- 
- 
-continued 
48 West Virginia 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
