Table 58. Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino Origin Principal Operators - Selected Farm Characteristics: 
2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Characteristics 
2012 
2007 
Characteristics 
2012 
2007 
FARMS AND LAND IN FARMS 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY 
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) - Con. 
Farms number 
58 
55 
Land in farms acres 
10,993 
9,334 
Other crop farming (1119) - Con. 
FARMS BY SIZE 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, 
and all other crop farming 
1 to 9 acres 
19 
8 
(11193, 11194, 11199) 
14 
20 
1 0 to 49 acres 
16 
14 
50 to 1 79 acres 
10 
13 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
3 
12 
1 80 to 499 acres 
7 
17 
Cattle feedlots (112112) 
- 
- 
500 acres or more 
6 
3 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
5 
9 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
- 
- 
OWNED AND RENTED LAND IN FARMS 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
10 
- 
Owned land in farms farms 
57 
55 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
- 
- 
acres 
7,180 
6,696 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
Rented or leased land in farms farms 
11 
17 
production (1125, 1129) 
15 
8 
acres 
3,813 
2,638 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
TENURE 
Farms by- 
Full owners farms 
47 
38 
Type of organization (see text): 
acres 
(D) 
3,809 
Organization with 50 percent or more 
Part owners farms 
10 
17 
ownership interest held by operator and/or 
acres 
5,509 
5,525 
persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption 
57 
(NA) 
Tenants farms 
1 
- 
acres 
(D) 
Limited Liability Corporation (see text) 
8 
(NA) 
MARKET VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
Operation's legal status for tax 
SOLD AND GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS 
purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
50 
51 
Total farms 
58 
55 
Partnerships 
4 
4 
$1,000 
8,205 
7,071 
Corporations 
4 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
Market value of agricultural products 
institutional, etc 
- 
- 
sold farms 
58 
55 
$1,000 
8,130 
7,056 
Number of operators: 
Crops, including nursery 
1 operator 
23 
21 
and greenhouse crops farms 
29 
27 
2 operators 
31 
32 
$1,000 
4,307 
221 
3 operators 
2 
2 
Livestock, poultry, and 
4 operators 
2 
- 
their products farms 
26 
28 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
$1,000 
3,823 
6,835 
Government payments farms 
9 
9 
Number of women operators: 
$1,000 
75 
16 
1 operator 
35 
34 
2 operators 
2 
- 
FARMS BY ECONOMIC CLASS 
3 operators 
- 
- 
4 operators 
- 
- 
Less than $1 ,000 
26 
17 
5 or more operators 
- 
- 
$1,000 to $2,499 
7 
3 
$2,500 to $4,999 
6 
12 
Farms reporting- 
$5,000 to $9,999 
5 
4 
Internet access 
48 
37 
$10,000 to $24,999 
2 
3 
Dial-up service 
2 
(NA) 
$25,000 to $49,999 
2 
11 
DSL service 
32 
(NA) 
$50,000 or more 
10 
5 
Cable modem service 
9 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
- 
(NA) 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION (CCC) LOANS 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer 
AND FEDERAL FARM PROGRAM PAYMENTS 
or a cell phone 
3 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
9 
(NA) 
CCC loans (see text) farms 
- 
- 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
1 
(NA) 
$1,000 
- 
- 
Other Internet service 
1 
(NA) 
Conservation Reserve, Wetlands Reserve, Farmable 
Wetlands, or Conservation Reserve Enhancement 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
3 
- 
Programs payments farms 
- 
- 
acres 
1,527 
- 
$1,000 
- 
- 
Other Federal farm program 
Farms by number of households sharing 
payments farms 
9 
9 
in net income of farm: 
$1,000 
75 
16 
1 household 
52 
49 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY 
2 households 
4 
6 
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (NAICS) 
3 households 
2 
- 
4 households 
- 
- 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
- 
- 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
4 
3 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
5 
3 
Farms by share of principal operator's 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
total household income from farming: 
production (1114) 
2 
- 
Less than 25 percent 
44 
41 
25 to 49 percent 
3 
8 
Other crop farming (1119) 
14 
20 
50 to 74 percent 
4 
- 
Tobacco farming (1 1 191) 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
4 
4 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
1 00 percent 
3 
2 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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