A lot of attention is paid to the study of farm labour resources in the USA. The results of the agricultural census provide important information about the demographics of farm producers and their financial well-being for each state and county. Farm producers in the United States are those who make management decisions, such as day-to-day decisions about crop production, livestock production, bookkeeping, etc. Farm producers can be farm owners, their family members, hired managers, tenants, and renters. If the owner of the land leases it or if his/her land is cultivated by others, he/she is not a producer of that land. Farm producers can be principal or non-principal. There can be several primary producers on one farm, from which one primary producer, who makes most of the decisions on the farm, is chosen.
According to the results of the agricultural census, a separate report on the typology of farms is issued. According to the types of farms, distribution rows are built by the number of producers, including separately by male and female producers. For the first four producers on the farm, data are given for sex, age, nationality, primary employment (on the farm if 50% or more of the work time is spent on the farm or ranch, or off the farm), whether the producer is retired, a hired manager, number of working days spent off the farm, length of time working on this farm and other farms, number of persons living in the producer's household. New categories were added to the 2017 Census program in the Producer Characteristics section: military service, new and novice producers (employed on farms for 10 years or less), and participation in decision-making. Also by type of farm, data are given on the number of employees (including paid family members), including those employed on the farm less or more than 150 days per year, their labour costs, including social benefits. Data on the number of farms with unpaid, contract workers and migrant workers are provided. The migrant category includes both US citizens and foreign workers who require travel to work and lack the ability to return the same day to their permanent place of residence.