Table 78. Years Involved in Agricultural Production - Exempt Organic Farms: 2014 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Geographic 
area 
Farms 
Percent of farms by years involved in agricultural production 
Less than 10 
years 
10 to 19 
years 
20 to 29 
years 
30 to 39 
years 
40 to 49 
years 
50 or more 
years 
United States 
1,459 
40 
30 
16 
7 
4 
3 
Alabama 
13 
69 
31 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
Alaska 
10 
50 
40 
- 
10 
- 
- 
Arkansas 
8 
38 
13 
25 
25 
- 
- 
California 
173 
34 
28 
19 
8 
5 
6 
Colorado 
23 
52 
17 
13 
4 
9 
4 
Connecticut 
44 
59 
18 
7 
5 
11 
_ 
Delaware 
4 
75 
25 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Florida 
20 
35 
15 
35 
- 
15 
- 
Georgia 
31 
61 
13 
26 
- 
- 
- 
Flawaii 
45 
18 
60 
13 
9 
- 
- 
Idaho 
10 
_ 
40 
20 
20 
_ 
20 
Illinois 
34 
38 
47 
6 
6 
- 
3 
Indiana 
31 
48 
29 
23 
- 
- 
- 
Iowa 
19 
47 
16 
37 
- 
- 
- 
Kansas 
6 
- 
- 
67 
33 
- 
- 
Kentucky 
21 
48 
33 
5 
5 
10 
- 
Louisiana 
9 
- 
56 
22 
- 
- 
22 
Maine 
73 
37 
42 
10 
8 
- 
3 
Maryland 
10 
- 
80 
- 
20 
- 
- 
Massachusetts 
48 
48 
23 
17 
4 
- 
8 
Michigan 
44 
34 
30 
23 
7 
- 
7 
Minnesota 
37 
24 
43 
19 
8 
5 
- 
Missouri 
32 
47 
28 
13 
9 
3 
- 
Montana 
9 
22 
44 
11 
22 
- 
- 
Nebraska 
4 
- 
50 
50 
- 
- 
- 
Nevada 
4 
_ 
75 
25 
_ 
_ 
_ 
New Hampshire 
38 
66 
29 
5 
- 
- 
- 
New Jersey 
27 
30 
26 
19 
11 
11 
4 
New Mexico 
11 
82 
18 
- 
- 
- 
- 
New York 
62 
42 
31 
8 
5 
6 
8 
North Carolina 
64 
47 
25 
13 
13 
3 
_ 
Ohio 
42 
40 
19 
21 
10 
- 
10 
Oklahoma 
10 
70 
30 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Oregon 
70 
19 
27 
34 
7 
10 
3 
Pennsylvania 
26 
19 
38 
4 
31 
- 
8 
Rhode Island 
1 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
100 
_ 
South Carolina 
12 
42 
42 
17 
- 
- 
- 
South Dakota 
2 
- 
50 
- 
50 
- 
- 
Tennessee 
24 
42 
21 
8 
17 
13 
- 
Texas 
56 
59 
25 
11 
4 
2 
- 
Vermont 
36 
22 
64 
6 
3 
6 
_ 
Virginia 
28 
54 
32 
14 
- 
- 
- 
Washington 
73 
56 
19 
12 
3 
7 
3 
West Virginia 
15 
60 
27 
- 
- 
13 
- 
Wisconsin 
100 
36 
22 
28 
11 
- 
3 
2012 Census of Agriculture 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
2014 OS - Exempt Organic Farm Data 537 
