Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Item 
Total 
Family or 
individual 
Partnership 
Total 
Registered 
under 
state law 
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 
7,099 
6,043 
579 
447 
acres 
1,176,532 
843,553 
164,710 
134,597 
Limited Liability Corporation farms 
663 
406 
249 
236 
acres 
145,680 
64,810 
77,948 
75,727 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual farms 
6,043 
6,043 
- 
- 
acres 
843,553 
843,553 
- 
- 
Partnership farms 
695 
- 
695 
524 
acres 
205,158 
- 
205,158 
166,970 
Registered under state law farms 
524 
- 
524 
524 
acres 
166,970 
166,970 
166,970 
Corporation farms 
486 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
181,139 
- 
- 
- 
Family held farms 
410 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
161,780 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders farms 
10 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
400 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held farms 
76 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
19,359 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders farms 
5 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders farms 
71 
- 
- 
- 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc farms 
114 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
21,863 
- 
- 
- 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor farms 
2,293 
1,571 
351 
275 
workers 
9,216 
5,165 
1,807 
1,425 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more farms 
1,286 
721 
254 
203 
workers 
3,902 
1,817 
905 
774 
Less than 150 days farms 
1,683 
1,198 
223 
182 
workers 
5,314 
3,348 
902 
651 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) farms 
119 
61 
27 
24 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) farms 
1 
1 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) farms 
3,689 
3,045 
369 
263 
workers 
8,623 
6,956 
852 
587 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
616 
518 
34 
28 
1 0 to 49 acres 
2,258 
1,984 
136 
105 
50 to 69 acres 
573 
524 
27 
16 
70 to 99 acres 
650 
572 
45 
30 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
786 
664 
72 
50 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
405 
332 
35 
29 
180 to 219 acres 
416 
325 
48 
33 
220 to 259 acres 
308 
247 
31 
23 
260 to 499 acres 
789 
576 
143 
106 
500 to 999 acres 
383 
227 
93 
74 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
115 
60 
24 
23 
2,000 acres or more 
39 
14 
7 
7 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
66 
51 
8 
8 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
351 
283 
41 
39 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
273 
212 
36 
31 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1 1 14) 
545 
442 
53 
40 
Other crop farming (1 1 19) 
2,634 
2,261 
197 
126 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
2,634 
2,261 
197 
126 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
862 
767 
55 
39 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
18 
14 
1 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
904 
605 
199 
165 
Hog and pig farming (1 122) 
57 
47 
1 
1 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
203 
187 
8 
7 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
390 
343 
28 
27 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
1,035 
831 
68 
41 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory farms 
2,784 
2,248 
331 
263 
number 
274,251 
151,036 
62,475 
56,754 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
1,043 
918 
67 
50 
1 0 to 49 
783 
680 
67 
46 
50 to 99 
326 
250 
51 
40 
100 to 199 
305 
230 
60 
50 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
148 Vermont 2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
