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 
5,577 
7,586 
6,666 
6,436 
7,462 
11,078 
acres 
763,412 
818,788 
556,142 
480,560 
474,926 
607,342 
Limited Liability Corporation 
farms 
348 
422 
363 
305 
332 
660 
acres 
45,959 
54,270 
34,909 
27,630 
25,924 
49,476 
LEGAL STATUS FOR TAX PURPOSES (SEE TEXT) 
Family or individual 
farms 
5,177 
7,006 
6,210 
6,027 
7,020 
10,337 
acres 
693,119 
739,999 
506,204 
436,678 
436,136 
547,539 
Partnership 
farms 
305 
364 
336 
261 
298 
439 
acres 
47,518 
54,286 
40,017 
31,075 
23,296 
43,989 
Registered under state law 
farms 
219 
248 
226 
165 
178 
315 
acres 
34,752 
40,614 
25,831 
20,494 
14,990 
35,577 
Corporation 
farms 
194 
262 
171 
131 
161 
308 
acres 
42,554 
33,865 
17,713 
16,173 
16,547 
19,778 
Family held 
farms 
178 
228 
148 
116 
131 
282 
acres 
38,676 
25,328 
14,689 
13,568 
13,293 
1 7,786 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
2 
- 
2 
1 
2 
1 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
176 
228 
146 
115 
129 
281 
Other than family held 
farms 
16 
34 
23 
15 
30 
26 
acres 
3,878 
8,537 
3,024 
2,605 
3,254 
1,992 
More than 1 0 stockholders 
farms 
- 
1 
- 
- 
6 
- 
1 0 or less stockholders 
farms 
16 
33 
23 
15 
24 
26 
Other-cooperative, estate 
or trust, institutional, etc 
farms 
69 
147 
109 
160 
186 
240 
acres 
10,431 
30,166 
12,245 
17,084 
15,564 
15,559 
HIRED FARM LABOR 
Hired farm labor 
farms 
1,201 
1,279 
897 
742 
786 
1,245 
workers 
3,448 
3,862 
2,336 
1,868 
1,906 
3,112 
Workers by days worked: 
1 50 days or more 
farms 
360 
334 
250 
223 
239 
517 
workers 
685 
672 
371 
391 
375 
966 
Less than 1 50 days 
farms 
977 
1,058 
730 
581 
600 
825 
workers 
2,763 
3,190 
1,965 
1,477 
1,531 
2,146 
Migrant farm labor on farms with hired 
labor (see text) 
farms 
3 
9 
_ 
_ 
2 
8 
Migrant farm labor on farms reporting 
only contract labor (see text) 
farms 
5 
1 
2 
- 
- 
3 
Unpaid workers (see text) 
farms 
2,220 
3,135 
2,789 
2,516 
2,910 
4,787 
workers 
5,609 
7,636 
6,608 
5,846 
6,728 
1 1 ,245 
FARMS BY SIZE 
1 to 9 acres 
193 
394 
500 
584 
816 
1,717 
1 0 to 49 acres 
700 
2,151 
2,437 
2,605 
3,486 
5,535 
50 to 69 acres 
527 
797 
784 
736 
863 
1,088 
70 to 99 acres 
1,087 
1,285 
1,054 
1,039 
1,025 
1,359 
1 00 to 1 39 acres 
1,149 
1,134 
866 
727 
706 
722 
1 40 to 1 79 acres 
703 
719 
481 
354 
335 
390 
180 to 219 acres 
498 
461 
274 
190 
182 
186 
220 to 259 acres 
299 
262 
149 
121 
92 
120 
260 to 499 acres 
515 
490 
252 
187 
137 
163 
500 to 999 acres 
62 
68 
23 
31 
19 
36 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 acres 
7 
14 
6 
3 
2 
7 
2,000 acres or more 
5 
4 
- 
2 
2 
1 
FARMS BY NORTH AMERICAN 
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION 
SYSTEM (NAICS) 
Oilseed and grain farming (1111) 
3,125 
3,102 
2,053 
1,269 
716 
297 
Vegetable and melon farming (1112) 
148 
280 
238 
165 
67 
30 
Fruit and tree nut farming (1113) 
93 
150 
144 
118 
90 
339 
Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture 
production (1114) 
192 
272 
175 
146 
156 
323 
Other crop farming (1119) 
474 
1,340 
1,823 
2,842 
4,521 
4,063 
Tobacco farming (11191) 
2 
29 
14 
5 
4 
- 
Cotton farming (1 1192) 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Sugarcane farming, hay farming, and all 
other crop farming (11193,11194,11199) 
472 
1,311 
1,809 
2,837 
4,517 
4,063 
Beef cattle ranching and farming (112111) 
883 
1,889 
1,746 
1,342 
910 
1,950 
Cattle feedlots (1121 12) 
202 
101 
12 
- 
2 
- 
Dairy cattle and milk production (11212) 
341 
71 
8 
4 
5 
52 
Hog and pig farming (1122) 
20 
46 
48 
67 
110 
92 
Poultry and egg production (1123) 
21 
41 
85 
104 
336 
720 
Sheep and goat farming (1124) 
80 
173 
167 
225 
286 
490 
Animal aquaculture and other animal 
production (1125, 1129) 
166 
314 
327 
297 
466 
2,968 
LIVESTOCK 
Cattle and calves inventory 
farms 
2,586 
3,294 
2,411 
1,775 
1,182 
2,484 
number 
95,174 
78,860 
43,886 
19,199 
1 1 ,356 
34,500 
Farms with- 
1 to 9 
289 
701 
906 
1,029 
768 
1,635 
1 0 to 49 
1,683 
2,306 
1,436 
726 
398 
746 
50 to 99 
522 
253 
55 
15 
16 
61 
100 to 199 
80 
34 
6 
5 
- 
15 
See footnote(s) at end of table. -continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
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