Table 66. Summary by Combined Government Payments and Market Value of Agricultural Products 
Sold: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
All farms 
$1,000,000 or 
more 
$500,000 to 
$999,999 
$250,000 to 
$499,999 
$100,000 to 
$249,999 
$50,000 to 
$99,999 
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 
21,075 
161 
165 
139 
342 
511 
acres 
3,501,214 
139,345 
108,764 
106,290 
223,821 
260,324 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
721 
31 
15 
21 
31 
33 
acres 
202,950 
42,756 
6,688 
16,021 
20,051 
21,346 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
20,009 
116 
132 
116 
279 
454 
acres 
3,194,583 
102,705 
78,923 
86,244 
188,504 
222,575 
Partnership 
farms 
893 
25 
15 
17 
58 
49 
acres 
256,458 
20,937 
17,942 
16,088 
36,841 
33,048 
Registered under state law 
farms 
626 
24 
12 
9 
46 
42 
acres 
192,770 
20,898 
11,547 
13,189 
29,637 
25,910 
Corporation 
farms 
429 
41 
21 
8 
19 
22 
acres 
123,053 
32,822 
10,076 
(D) 
5,966 
11,748 
Family held 
farms 
382 
38 
20 
8 
18 
20 
acres 
110,458 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
(D) 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
11 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
371 
36 
20 
8 
18 
20 
Other than family held 
farms 
47 
3 
1 
- 
1 
2 
acres 
12,595 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
(D) 
(D) 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
5 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
42 
3 
1 
- 
1 
2 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
158 
- 
3 
6 
10 
5 
acres 
32,580 
- 
7,490 
(D) 
6,361 
597 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
3,452 
149 
95 
98 
188 
210 
workers 
10,153 
1,686 
349 
382 
622 
575 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
882 
112 
55 
61 
99 
66 
workers 
2,284 
937 
173 
149 
178 
126 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
2,921 
92 
67 
74 
138 
176 
workers 
7,869 
749 
176 
233 
444 
449 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
30 
12 
6 
1 
2 
1 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
6 
- 
1 
- 
- 
1 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
10,867 
87 
89 
79 
188 
296 
workers 
26,567 
209 
181 
146 
451 
687 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
956 
5 
4 
8 
11 
14 
1 0 to 49 acres 
5,128 
28 
31 
8 
14 
14 
50 to 69 acres 
2,244 
6 
9 
6 
10 
8 
70 to 99 acres 
2,746 
4 
6 
3 
8 
21 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
2,841 
3 
10 
7 
8 
21 
140 to 179 acres 
1,861 
8 
14 
4 
8 
46 
180 to 219 acres 
1,322 
10 
8 
4 
24 
33 
220 to 259 acres 
955 
6 
4 
5 
23 
32 
260 to 499 acres 
2,180 
31 
22 
34 
80 
163 
500 to 999 acres 
894 
28 
32 
32 
106 
113 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
279 
31 
17 
26 
64 
49 
2,000 acres or more 
83 
22 
14 
10 
10 
16 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
296 
8 
9 
18 
28 
27 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
470 
1 
1 
1 
10 
11 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
438 
8 
4 
3 
4 
10 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
412 
4 
4 
4 
19 
21 
Other crop farming (1 1 19) 
6,744 
- 
- 
1 
10 
13 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
6 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
6,738 
_ 
_ 
1 
9 
13 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
9,430 
13 
20 
54 
225 
382 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
153 
- 
5 
- 
11 
23 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
155 
8 
13 
21 
34 
35 
Hog and pig farming (1 122) 
170 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
680 
139 
113 
38 
14 
- 
Sheep and goat farming (1 124) 
693 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
1,848 
1 
2 
7 
11 
7 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
12,067 
110 
113 
100 
296 
452 
number 
414,908 
39,110 
24,506 
27,097 
54,337 
47,963 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
4,145 
5 
7 
3 
6 
5 
10 to 49 
6,104 
22 
38 
11 
14 
49 
50 to 99 
1,032 
18 
14 
7 
47 
196 
100 to 199 
490 
11 
14 
21 
130 
167 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
122 West Virginia 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
