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 
$25,000 to 
$49,999 
$10,000 to 
$24,999 
$5,000 to 
$9,999 
$2,500 to 
$4,999 
$1,000 to 
$2,499 
Less than 
$1,000 
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 
1,124 
2,946 
3,521 
3,575 
3,794 
4,797 
acres 
374,090 
653,511 
524,971 
386,142 
334,450 
389,506 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
60 
112 
111 
87 
101 
119 
acres 
21,206 
24,648 
18,553 
10,806 
7,827 
13,048 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
998 
2,785 
3,382 
3,463 
3,666 
4,618 
acres 
328,241 
616,356 
504,155 
375,284 
322,024 
369,572 
Partnership 
farms 
86 
150 
141 
103 
119 
130 
acres 
36,162 
38,660 
24,052 
11,045 
10,348 
11,335 
Registered under state law 
farms 
62 
99 
91 
75 
76 
90 
acres 
29,751 
23,197 
16,159 
8,086 
6,235 
8,161 
Corporation 
farms 
63 
36 
53 
30 
40 
96 
acres 
15,328 
8,530 
10,472 
(D) 
6,204 
12,886 
Family held 
farms 
61 
34 
45 
25 
30 
83 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
6,658 
3,423 
4,164 
11,816 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
1 
3 
- 
1 
4 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
61 
33 
42 
25 
29 
79 
Other than family held 
farms 
2 
2 
8 
5 
10 
13 
acres 
(D) 
(D) 
3,814 
(D) 
2,040 
1,070 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
2 
2 
6 
4 
9 
12 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
7 
37 
19 
29 
16 
26 
acres 
1,938 
5,944 
2,092 
(D) 
1,275 
3,507 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
340 
550 
529 
397 
328 
568 
workers 
949 
1,239 
1,200 
915 
783 
1,453 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
97 
85 
93 
56 
51 
107 
workers 
156 
127 
137 
80 
65 
156 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
286 
497 
467 
354 
285 
485 
workers 
793 
1,112 
1,063 
835 
718 
1,297 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
_ 
2 
5 
_ 
1 
_ 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
642 
1,603 
1,813 
1,789 
1,858 
2,423 
workers 
1,555 
4,086 
4,492 
4,514 
4,461 
5,785 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
35 
52 
85 
124 
219 
399 
1 0 to 49 acres 
75 
238 
548 
933 
1,314 
1,925 
50 to 69 acres 
50 
199 
337 
480 
507 
632 
70 to 99 acres 
60 
279 
538 
603 
601 
623 
100 to 139 acres 
106 
410 
668 
537 
522 
549 
140 to 1 79 acres 
76 
385 
450 
350 
241 
279 
180 to 219 acres 
103 
305 
303 
207 
150 
175 
220 to 259 acres 
87 
242 
196 
155 
104 
101 
260 to 499 acres 
323 
666 
362 
204 
156 
139 
500 to 999 acres 
192 
203 
97 
28 
25 
38 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
43 
28 
8 
4 
2 
7 
2,000 acres or more 
4 
1 
3 
- 
- 
3 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
32 
55 
32 
35 
33 
19 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
42 
88 
144 
101 
47 
24 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
22 
50 
68 
63 
54 
152 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
61 
102 
55 
59 
43 
40 
Other crop farming (1119) 
86 
477 
1,178 
1,349 
2,099 
1,531 
Tobacco farming (1 1 191) 
2 
1 
- 
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) 
84 
476 
1,178 
1,347 
2,099 
1,531 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
806 
2,008 
1,876 
1,672 
993 
1,381 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
37 
60 
16 
1 
- 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
11 
2 
1 
1 
- 
29 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
- 
6 
12 
24 
41 
86 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
6 
10 
10 
27 
74 
249 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
15 
24 
68 
96 
174 
316 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
36 
126 
135 
197 
283 
1,043 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
908 
2,379 
2,382 
2,087 
1,342 
1,898 
number 
53,494 
73,478 
40,265 
24,311 
11,168 
19,179 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
42 
183 
666 
988 
933 
1,307 
10 to 49 
412 
1,842 
1,666 
1,090 
403 
557 
50 to 99 
333 
324 
50 
9 
6 
28 
1 00 to 1 99 
114 
29 
- 
- 
- 
4 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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