Table 67. Summary by Legal Status For Tax Purposes: 2012 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Corporation 
Other- 
Item 
Family held 
Other than family held 
cooperative, 
Total 
Total 
10 or less 
stockholders 
Total 
10 or less 
stockholders 
estate or trust, 
institutional, etc. 
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 
420 
366 
362 
54 
51 
57 
acres 
157,851 
145,104 
141,712 
12,747 
11,517 
10,418 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
8 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
2,922 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Partnership 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Registered under state law 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
" 
" 
" 
" 
Corporation 
farms 
486 
410 
400 
76 
71 
- 
acres 
181,139 
161,780 
156,842 
19,359 
18,058 
- 
Family held 
farms 
410 
410 
400 
- 
- 
- 
acres 
161,780 
161,780 
156,842 
- 
- 
- 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
10 
10 
- 
- 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
400 
400 
400 
- 
- 
- 
Other than family held 
farms 
76 
- 
- 
76 
71 
- 
acres 
19,359 
- 
- 
19,359 
18,058 
- 
More than 10 stockholders 
farms 
5 
- 
- 
5 
- 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
71 
- 
" 
71 
71 
" 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
114 
acres 
" 
- 
- 
- 
21,863 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
314 
269 
265 
45 
42 
57 
workers 
1,954 
1,644 
1,598 
310 
269 
290 
Workers by days worked: 
150 days or more 
farms 
266 
228 
224 
38 
35 
45 
workers 
1,017 
875 
854 
142 
(D) 
163 
Less than 150 days 
farms 
231 
196 
193 
35 
33 
31 
workers 
937 
769 
744 
168 
(D) 
127 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
30 
29 
28 
1 
1 
1 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
229 
208 
205 
21 
20 
46 
workers 
598 
513 
497 
85 
(D) 
217 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
41 
23 
23 
18 
17 
23 
1 0 to 49 acres 
119 
107 
107 
12 
12 
19 
50 to 69 acres 
17 
13 
12 
4 
3 
5 
70 to 99 acres 
24 
20 
20 
4 
4 
9 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
40 
31 
31 
9 
9 
10 
140 to 1 79 acres 
25 
18 
18 
7 
5 
13 
180 to 219 acres 
37 
37 
36 
- 
- 
6 
220 to 259 acres 
27 
21 
17 
6 
6 
3 
260 to 499 acres 
55 
50 
49 
5 
5 
15 
500 to 999 acres 
55 
47 
45 
8 
7 
8 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
29 
27 
27 
2 
2 
2 
2,000 acres or more 
17 
16 
15 
1 
1 
1 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
7 
7 
7 
Vegetable and melon farming (1 1 12) 
21 
17 
15 
4 
4 
6 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
21 
16 
16 
5 
5 
4 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
39 
24 
24 
15 
12 
11 
Other crop farming (1119) 
135 
108 
103 
27 
27 
41 
Tobacco farming (1 1 191) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Cotton farming (11192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (1 1 1 93,1 1 1 94,1 1 1 99) 
135 
108 
103 
27 
27 
41 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
32 
32 
31 
- 
- 
8 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
3 
2 
2 
1 
1 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (1 1212) 
92 
87 
85 
5 
3 
8 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
8 
8 
8 
- 
- 
1 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
5 
5 
5 
- 
- 
3 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
16 
15 
15 
1 
1 
3 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
107 
89 
89 
18 
18 
29 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
177 
160 
157 
17 
15 
28 
number 
58,522 
56,724 
(D) 
1,798 
(D) 
2,218 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
45 
36 
36 
9 
9 
13 
10 to 49 
30 
28 
28 
2 
2 
6 
50 to 99 
19 
17 
16 
2 
2 
6 
1 00 to 1 99 
14 
13 
13 
1 
- 
1 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data Vermont 149 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
