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2012 Edition

national industry 115112

Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing a soil preparation activity or crop production service, such as plowing, fertilizing, seed bed preparation, planting, cultivating, and crop protecting services.

The immediate parent of national industry 115112 is international industry 11511: Support Activities for Crop Production

2012 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Establishments primarily engaged in:
  • Land clearing, land leveling, and earth moving for terracing, ponds, and irrigation:are classified in Industry 238910, Site Preparation Contractors; and
  • Providing water for irrigation:are classified in Industry 221310, Water Supply and Irrigation Systems.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 115112 - Aerial dusting or spraying (i.e., using specialized or dedicated aircraft)
  2. 115112 - Bracing of orchard trees and vines
  3. 115112 - Chemical treatment of soil for crops
  4. 115112 - Citrus grove cultivation services
  5. 115112 - Crop dusting
  6. 115112 - Crop spraying
  7. 115112 - Cultivation services
  8. 115112 - Detasseling corn
  9. 115112 - Disease control for crops
  10. 115112 - Dusting crops
  11. 115112 - Entomological service, agricultural
  12. 115112 - Fertilizer application for crops
  13. 115112 - Hoeing
  14. 115112 - Insect control for crops
  15. 115112 - Orchard cultivation services (e.g., bracing, planting, pruning, removal, spraying, surgery)
  16. 115112 - Pest control services, agricultural
  17. 115112 - Planting crops
  18. 115112 - Plowing
  19. 115112 - Pollinating
  20. 115112 - Pruning of orchard trees and vines
  21. 115112 - Seed bed preparing
  22. 115112 - Seeding crops
  23. 115112 - Spraying crops
  24. 115112 - Spreading lime for crops
  25. 115112 - Surgery on trees and vines
  26. 115112 - Thinning of crops, mechanical and chemical
  27. 115112 - Transplanting services
  28. 115112 - Vineyard cultivation services
  29. 115112 - Weed control services for crops

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 115112
2007 115112
2012 115112
2017 115112
2022 115112

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 0711 - Soil Preparation Services
  2. 0721 - Crop Planting, Cultivating, and Protecting

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 115112, Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating:

  1. agricultural horticultural service not otherwise classified
  2. agriculture and agricultural service
  3. agriculture forestry fishing and hunting
  4. aircraft operation agricultural
  5. aviation aerial application seeding herding or scintillometer surveying flying crew
  6. crop or weed spraying or fertilizing
  7. crop planting cultivating and protecting
  8. crop spraying by contractor
  9. farm vineyard
  10. fertilizing or spraying weed or crop
  11. horticultural agricultural service not otherwise classified
  12. machinery operation for other
  13. orchard and vineyard operation by contractor
  14. soil preparation planting and cultivating
  15. soil preparation service
  16. spraying or fertilizing weed or crop
  17. support activity for agriculture and forestry
  18. support activity for crop production
  19. weed or crop spraying or fertilizing

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