Table 77. Primary Production Challenge - Exempt Organic Farms: 2014 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Geographic 
area 
Regulatory problems 
Price issues 
Production problems 
Farms 
Percent of 
farms 
Farms 
Percent of 
farms 
Farms 
Percent of 
farms 
United States 
352 
26 
80 
6 
251 
19 
Alabama 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
5 
38 
Alaska 
3 
33 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Arkansas 
3 
43 
2 
28 
2 
29 
California 
54 
36 
2 
1 
36 
24 
Colorado 
7 
30 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Connecticut 
7 
17 
4 
10 
8 
20 
Delaware 
1 
25 
- 
- 
2 
50 
Florida 
10 
56 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Georgia 
14 
48 
- 
- 
8 
28 
Flawaii 
6 
15 
2 
5 
14 
34 
Idaho 
4 
40 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
Illinois 
4 
12 
- 
- 
11 
32 
Indiana 
13 
42 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Iowa 
- 
- 
1 
7 
6 
43 
Kansas 
2 
33 
2 
33 
- 
- 
Kentucky 
5 
24 
2 
9 
1 
5 
Louisiana 
2 
22 
2 
22 
3 
33 
Maine 
14 
22 
2 
3 
11 
17 
Maryland 
3 
30 
2 
20 
4 
40 
Massachusetts 
23 
48 
- 
- 
9 
19 
Michigan 
13 
31 
5 
12 
3 
7 
Minnesota 
8 
24 
4 
11 
4 
11 
Missouri 
7 
23 
- 
- 
10 
32 
Montana 
1 
14 
- 
- 
2 
29 
Nebraska 
- 
- 
2 
50 
- 
- 
Nevada 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
3 
100 
New Hampshire 
15 
42 
11 
31 
2 
5 
New Jersey 
6 
25 
1 
4 
10 
42 
New Mexico 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5 
45 
New York 
14 
24 
5 
8 
5 
8 
North Carolina 
13 
21 
3 
5 
12 
20 
Ohio 
13 
33 
1 
2 
13 
32 
Oklahoma 
3 
30 
- 
- 
4 
40 
Oregon 
12 
22 
2 
4 
9 
16 
Pennsylvania 
5 
23 
3 
14 
3 
14 
Rhode Island 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
1 
100 
South Carolina 
3 
30 
- 
- 
3 
30 
South Dakota 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Tennessee 
4 
20 
2 
10 
2 
10 
Texas 
15 
30 
3 
6 
7 
14 
Vermont 
4 
11 
3 
8 
4 
11 
Virginia 
6 
23 
2 
8 
8 
31 
Washington 
10 
14 
4 
6 
8 
12 
West Virginia 
- 
- 
- 
- 
2 
18 
Wisconsin 
25 
27 
8 
9 
11 
12 
-continued 
2012 Census of Agriculture 2014 OS - Exempt Organic Farm Data 535 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
