Table 60. Selected Farm Characteristics by Race of Principal Operator: 2012 and 2007 (continued) 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Operators reporting one race 
Characteristics 
All principal 
operators 
American Indian 
or 
Alaska Native 
Asian 
Black 
or 
African American 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
2012 
2007 
OTHER FARM CHARACTERISTICS 
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 
17,278 
(NA) 
524 
(NA) 
51 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
2,078 
(NA) 
17 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
14,575 
13,614 
498 
601 
39 
39 
4 
1 
Partnerships 
1,588 
1,645 
11 
24 
1 
4 
2 
3 
Corporations 
1,147 
1,014 
6 
3 
3 
5 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
institutional, etc 
717 
427 
33 
32 
9 
1 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
9,508 
9,214 
315 
250 
35 
28 
3 
1 
2 operators 
6,935 
5,946 
140 
300 
14 
14 
3 
3 
3 operators 
1,194 
1,137 
72 
83 
3 
4 
- 
- 
4 operators 
242 
261 
8 
19 
- 
3 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
148 
142 
13 
8 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
7,399 
6,132 
335 
379 
13 
15 
4 
- 
2 operators 
334 
367 
35 
64 
- 
5 
- 
- 
3 operators 
95 
66 
12 
13 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
14 
14 
3 
2 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
5 
5 
2 
3 
- 
" 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
13,458 
9,798 
154 
102 
33 
18 
6 
4 
Dial-up 
858 
(NA) 
12 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
DSL service 
6,120 
(NA) 
56 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
2,338 
(NA) 
14 
(NA) 
10 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
634 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
1,970 
(NA) 
13 
(NA) 
11 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
2,619 
(NA) 
63 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
411 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
2 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
242 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
566 
524 
29 
20 
2 
2 
- 
- 
acres 
5,120,615 
5,211,991 
3,746,963 
3,781,487 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
14,146 
13,042 
357 
488 
41 
31 
6 
4 
2 households 
2,810 
2,583 
94 
106 
11 
13 
- 
- 
3 households 
550 
655 
38 
41 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 households 
287 
206 
40 
16 
- 
2 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
234 
214 
19 
9 
- 
3 
- 
" 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
14,725 
13,568 
449 
613 
36 
38 
6 
- 
25 to 49 percent 
938 
885 
25 
27 
8 
5 
- 
4 
50 to 74 percent 
1,092 
1,058 
27 
10 
3 
3 
- 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
668 
696 
7 
4 
- 
3 
- 
- 
100 percent 
604 
493 
40 
6 
5 
- 
- 
-continued 
48 Utah 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
