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 
11,224 
(NA) 
152 
(NA) 
12 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
Limited Liability Corporation 
1,138 
(NA) 
16 
(NA) 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
Operation's legal status for tax purposes (see text): 
Family or individual 
9,154 
8,784 
131 
196 
10 
13 
3 
5 
Partnerships 
1,095 
1,024 
3 
20 
- 
2 
3 
1 
Corporations 
1,085 
1,019 
2 
9 
2 
2 
- 
- 
Other - cooperative, estate or trust, 
institutional, etc 
402 
242 
26 
10 
- 
- 
- 
Number of operators: 
1 operator 
5,301 
5,098 
53 
131 
6 
14 
4 
4 
2 operators 
5,441 
4,906 
91 
86 
6 
2 
2 
2 
3 operators 
707 
751 
15 
16 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 operators 
178 
254 
1 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
109 
60 
2 
2 
- 
- 
- 
Number of women operators: 
1 operator 
6,042 
5,629 
99 
122 
6 
2 
2 
2 
2 operators 
350 
363 
5 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
3 operators 
56 
50 
6 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
4 operators 
13 
3 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more operators 
3 
4 
- 
" 
" 
Farms reporting- 
Internet access 
8,968 
7,289 
112 
116 
11 
6 
2 
6 
Dial-up 
571 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
DSL service 
2,830 
(NA) 
34 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
Cable modem service 
749 
(NA) 
5 
(NA) 
6 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Fiber-optic service 
448 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
3 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Mobile broadband plan for a computer or 
a cell phone 
1,527 
(NA) 
31 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Satellite service 
3,350 
(NA) 
41 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) 
168 
(NA) 
1 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Other Internet service 
340 
(NA) 
13 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
- 
(NA) 
Principal operator is a hired manager farms 
659 
537 
2 
13 
1 
1 
- 
- 
acres 
8,287,689 
6,219,050 
(D) 
2,250 
(D) 
(D) 
- 
Farms by number of households sharing in net income 
of farm: 
1 household 
9,550 
8,810 
129 
190 
12 
10 
5 
2 
2 households 
1,580 
1,585 
24 
18 
- 
1 
1 
4 
3 households 
380 
435 
9 
26 
- 
- 
- 
- 
4 households 
128 
149 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 or more households 
98 
90 
" 
- 
- 
6 
- 
- 
Farms by share of principal operator's total household 
income from farming: 
Less than 25 percent 
7,969 
7,611 
106 
140 
9 
11 
4 
6 
25 to 49 percent 
914 
863 
16 
30 
1 
2 
1 
- 
50 to 74 percent 
1,030 
963 
8 
25 
- 
- 
1 
- 
75 to 99 percent 
1,108 
984 
20 
33 
1 
- 
- 
- 
100 percent 
715 
648 
12 
7 
1 
4 
- 
-continued 
46 Wyoming 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
