Type of organization refers to the farm's form of business organization. Agricultural Resource Management Study data indicate that individual operations are the most common type of farm organization. Nine out of ten farms in the 1996 survey were classified as individual operations. Partnerships and corporations make up a very small share of farms. About 89 percent of farm corporations are family corporations, with more than 50 percent of the stock held by people related by blood or marriage.
Corporate farms have the highest average farm sales.