E-mail: nass-ny@nass.usda.gov
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Blair Smith
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

www.nass.usda.gov/ny



                       NEW YORK FARM NUMBERS BY TYPE

The 2007 Census of Agriculture placed New York farm numbers at 36,352,
according to Steve Ropel, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural
Statistics Service, New York Field Office. Of these farms 30,621, or 84
percent, were organized as family or individual type farms.  Farms
organized as partnerships totaled 3,347 farms, or 9 percent of the total,
with 2,265 of these partnerships registered under state law. Of the total
farms, 2,110, or 6 percent were organized as corporations with 1,885 of
these being family held. The remaining 274 farms were organized under
cooperative, estate, trust, institutional, or other types of agreements.

The Census, which is conducted every five years, provides facts and figures
on virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture, including number and types
of farm operations, the economic aspects of farm production and the
demographics of U.S. farm operators.

Details on this and other Census data can be found on-line through the New
York NASS web site: www.nass.usda.gov/ny/. U.S., State and County tables
are available in PDF, Text, and CSV files. Printed copies will be available
along with the CD-ROMS and a searchable database. For further information
or assistance, please call the New York office at 800-821-1276 or send an
e-mail to: nass-ny@nass.usda.gov.

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