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national industry 115114

Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning)

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing services on crops, subsequent to their harvest, with the intent of preparing them for market or further processing. These establishments provide postharvest activities, such as crop cleaning, sun drying, shelling, fumigating, curing, sorting, grading, packing, and cooling.

The immediate parent of national industry 115114 is international industry 11511: Support Activities for Crop Production

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Ginning cotton--are classified in U.S. Industry 115111, Cotton Ginning;
  • Custom grain grinding for animal feed--are classified in U.S. Industry 311119, Other Animal Food Manufacturing;
  • Artificially drying and dehydrating fruits and vegetables--are classified in U.S. Industry 311423, Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing;
  • Stemming and redrying tobacco--are classified in Industry 312230, Tobacco Manufacturing;
  • Buying farm products for resale to other wholesalers or retailers and preparing them for market or further processing--are classified in Industry 424480, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers; and
  • Providing farm management services (i.e., on a contract or fee basis) and arranging or contracting postharvesting crop activities for the farm(s) they manage--are classified in U.S. Industry 115116, Farm Management Services.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 115114 - Almond hulling and shelling
  2. 115114 - Banana ripening
  3. 115114 - Bean cleaning
  4. 115114 - Corn drying
  5. 115114 - Corn shelling
  6. 115114 - Crop cleaning
  7. 115114 - Decorticating flax
  8. 115114 - Delinting cottonseed
  9. 115114 - Filbert hulling and shelling
  10. 115114 - Fruit precooling
  11. 115114 - Fruit sorting, grading, and packing
  12. 115114 - Fruit, sun drying
  13. 115114 - Fruit, vacuum cooling
  14. 115114 - Fumigating grain
  15. 115114 - Grain cleaning
  16. 115114 - Grain drying
  17. 115114 - Grain fumigation
  18. 115114 - Grain grinding (except custom grinding for animal feed)
  19. 115114 - Hulling and shelling of nuts
  20. 115114 - Irradiation of fruits and vegetables
  21. 115114 - Nut hulling and shelling
  22. 115114 - Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables
  23. 115114 - Packing fruits and vegetables
  24. 115114 - Peanut shelling
  25. 115114 - Pecan hulling and shelling
  26. 115114 - Potato curing
  27. 115114 - Retting flax
  28. 115114 - Rice drying
  29. 115114 - Seed cleaning
  30. 115114 - Seed processing, postharvest for propagation
  31. 115114 - Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables
  32. 115114 - Sun drying of dates, prunes, raisins, and olives
  33. 115114 - Sun drying of fruits and vegetables
  34. 115114 - Sun drying of tomatoes
  35. 115114 - Sweet potato curing
  36. 115114 - Tobacco grading
  37. 115114 - Vegetable precooling
  38. 115114 - Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing
  39. 115114 - Vegetable sun drying
  40. 115114 - Vegetable vacuum cooling
  41. 115114 - Walnut hulling and shelling
  42. 115114 - Waxing, fruits or vegetables

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 115114
2007 115114
2012 115114
2017 115114
2022 115114

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 0723 - Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 115114, Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning):

  1. agriculture forestry fishing and hunting
  2. bean sorting or handling
  3. coffee cleaning roasting or grinding
  4. crop preparation service for market except cotton ginning
  5. exterminating or fumigating
  6. farm general not otherwise classified
  7. fruit and vegetable processing or fresh or ready to eat
  8. fruit citrus fruit packing
  9. fruit citrus fruit packing and handling including storage
  10. fruit dried fruit packing
  11. fruit dried fruit packing and handling
  12. fruit fresh fruit packing
  13. fruit fresh fruit packing and handling including st
  14. fruit nut or vegetable harvesting contractor
  15. fruit or veg processing fresh ready to eat
  16. fruit or vegetable processing fresh ready to eat
  17. fruit or vegetable processing fresh ready to eat ca
  18. fruit packing
  19. fruit packing citrus
  20. fruit packing dried
  21. fruit packing fresh not citrus
  22. fumigating
  23. machinery operation for other
  24. nut cleaning grading shelling and packing
  25. nut cleaning or shelling
  26. nut crop
  27. nut hulling
  28. nut hulling shelling or processing
  29. nut shelling
  30. olive handling
  31. orchard and vineyard operation by contractor
  32. orchard nut crop
  33. peanut handling
  34. postharvest crop activity except cotton ginning
  35. produce handling or packing
  36. support activity for agriculture and forestry
  37. support activity for crop production
  38. tobacco farm
  39. tobacco re handling or warehousing
  40. tobacco rehandling or warehousing
  41. vegetable and fruit packing
  42. vegetable fresh or tomato packing and handling
  43. vegetable fresh vegetable and tomato packing and
  44. vegetable fresh vegetable packing
  45. vegetable packing

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