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 - Con. 
Operators 
Characteristics 
Native Hawaiian 
or other 
Pacific Islander 
White 
reporting 
more than 
one race 
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 
2 
(NA) 
20,928 
(NA) 
54 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
2 
(NA) 
715 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
2 
4 
19,869 
22,342 
49 
59 
Partnerships 
- 
- 
889 
848 
2 
- 
Corporations 
- 
- 
425 
209 
3 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
157 
64 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
- 
3 
12,381 
14,266 
26 
26 
2 operators 
2 
- 
7,708 
7,787 
20 
28 
3 operators 
- 
1 
1,005 
1,148 
5 
5 
4 operators 
- 
- 
186 
186 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
60 
76 
3 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
2 
1 
8,458 
9,031 
26 
35 
2 operators 
- 
- 
391 
460 
5 
2 
3 operators 
- 
- 
40 
49 
1 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
1 
6 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
" 
1 
1 
- 
" 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
2 
2 
13,024 
10,934 
39 
38 
Dial-up 
- 
(NA) 
1,609 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
DSL service 
- 
(NA) 
5,836 
(NA) 
15 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
- 
(NA) 
2,226 
(NA) 
7 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
- 
(NA) 
354 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
- 
(NA) 
1,320 
(NA) 
8 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
2 
(NA) 
2,479 
(NA) 
9 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
- 
(NA) 
285 
(NA) 
4 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
- 
(NA) 
142 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
- 
- 
326 
247 
1 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
107,799 
(D) 
(D) 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
2 
3 
17,705 
18,974 
40 
47 
2 households 
- 
1 
3,002 
3,682 
13 
11 
3 households 
- 
- 
393 
501 
- 
1 
4 households 
- 
- 
134 
212 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
- 
- 
106 
94 
1 
" 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
2 
4 
18,407 
20,617 
52 
48 
25 to 49 percent 
- 
- 
1,255 
1,149 
- 
8 
50 to 74 percent 
- 
- 
916 
978 
2 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
- 
- 
411 
418 
- 
1 
100 percent 
- 
- 
351 
301 
- 
2 
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