SIC 0111 Wheat - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in the production of wheat or whose sales of wheat account for more than 50 percent of total value of sales for their agricultural production.
SIC 0112 Rice - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in the production of rice, or whose sales of rice account for 50 percent or more of the total value of sales for their agricultural production.
SIC 0115 Corn - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of field corn for grain or seed. Establishments primarily engaged in the production of sweet corn are classified under SIC 0161: Vegetables and Melons, and those producing popcorn are classified under SIC 0119: Cash Crops Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 0116 Soybeans - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in the production of soybeans.
SIC 0119 Cash Grains, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of cash grains, not elsewhere classified. Primary cash grains in this classification include dry field and seed peas and beans, safflowers, sunflowers, and popcorn.
SIC 0131 Cotton - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of cotton and cottonseed.
SIC 0132 Tobacco - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of tobacco.
SIC 0133 Sugarcane and Sugar Beets - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of sugarcane and sugar beets.
SIC 0134 Irish Potatoes - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of potatoes, except sweet potatoes, which are part of SIC 0139: Field Crops Except Cash Grains, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 0139 Field Crops Except Cash Grains, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of field crops, except cash grains, not classified elsewhere. This category includes a range of crops for human or livestock consumption, encompassing farms that produce alfalfa, broomcorn, clover, grass seed, hay, hops, mint, peanuts, sweet potatoes, timothy, and yams.
SIC 0161 Vegetables and Melons - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of vegetables and melons in the open, including asparagus, beans, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe, cauliflower, celery, sweet corn, cucumber, green peas, lettuce, onions, peppers, squash, and tomatoes.
SIC 0171 Berry Crops - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of cranberries, strawberries, and bush berries. Agricultural products in this last category include blackberries, blueberries, currants, dewberries, loganberries, boysenberries, and raspberries.
SIC 0172 Grapes - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
Establishments in this industry are primarily engaged in the production of grapes.
SIC 0173 Tree Nuts - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of tree nuts, including almonds, filberts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pistachios, and walnuts.
SIC 0174 Citrus Fruits - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in the production of citrus fruits.
SIC 0175 Deciduous Tree Fruits - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of deciduous tree fruits. Establishments primarily growing citrus fruits are classified in SIC 0174: Citrus Fruits and those growing tropical fruits are classified in SIC 0179: Fruits and Tree Nuts, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 0179 Fruits and Tree Nuts, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of fruits and nuts, not elsewhere classified. This classification also includes establishments deriving 50 percent or more of their total value of sales of agricultural products from fruits and tree nuts (Industry Group 017) but less than 50 percent from products of any single industry.
SIC 0181 Ornamental Floriculture and Nursery Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of ornamental plants and other nursery products, such as bedding plants, bulbs, florists' greens, flowers, shrubbery, potted plants, flower and vegetable seeds and plants, and sod. These products may be grown outdoors, or under cover of a greenhouse, frame, cloth house, or lath house.
SIC 0182 Food Crops Grown under Cover - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in the production of mushrooms or fruits and/or vegetables grown under cover.
SIC 0191 General Farms, Primarily Crop - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification is comprised of establishments deriving at least half the value of their total agricultural sales from crops, but less than 50 percent of the sales are from the products of any single, three-digit industry group. Crop farms deriving 50 percent or more of their total agricultural sales from products classified within a single three-digit grouping are classified according to that grouping.
SIC 0211 Beef Cattle Feedlots - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the fattening of beef cattle in a confined area for a period of at least 30 days, on their own account or on a contract or fee basis. Feedlot operations that are an integral part of the breeding, raising, or grazing of beef cattle are classified in SIC 0212: Beef Cattle, Except Feedlots.
SIC 0212 Beef Cattle Except Feedlots - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the production or feeding of beef cattle, except feedlots. Establishments primarily engaged in raising dairy cattle are classified in SIC 0241: Dairy Farms.
SIC 0213 Hogs - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in the production or feeding of hogs on their own account or on a contract or fee basis. A general trend toward vertical integration in the industry has resulted in larger, more integrated hog operations that often play diverse roles—including breeding, raising, feeding, feed production, butchering and processing, distribution and marketing—in the process of getting hogs from the weaning pen to the market place.
SIC 0214 Sheep and Goats - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of sheep, lambs, goats, goats' milk, wool, and mohair, including the operation of lamb feedlots, on their own account or on a contract or fee basis.
SIC 0219 General Livestock, Except Dairy and Poultry - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments deriving 50 percent or more of their total value of sales or agricultural products from livestock such as cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats, but with less than 50 percent deriving from any single one of those livestock categories.
SIC 0241 Dairy Farms - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of cows' milk and other dairy products and in raising dairy heifer replacements. Such farms may process and bottle milk on the farm and sell at wholesale or retail.
SIC 0251 Broiler, Fryer, and Roaster Chickens - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of chickens for slaughter, including those grown under contract.
SIC 0252 Chicken Eggs - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of chicken eggs, including table eggs and hatching eggs, and in the sale of cull hens.
SIC 0253 Turkeys and Turkey Eggs - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of turkeys and turkey eggs.
SIC 0254 Poultry Hatcheries - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in operating poultry hatcheries on their own account or on a contract or fee basis.
SIC 0259 Poultry and Eggs, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
SIC 0271 Fur-Bearing Animals and Rabbits - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of fur and fur-bearing animals and rabbits. These include chinchilla farms, fox farms, fur farms, mink farms, and rabbit farms.
SIC 0272 Horses and Other Equines - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in the production of horses and other equines such as burros, donkeys, and mules.
SIC 0273 Animal Aquaculture - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments engaged in the production of finfish and shellfish within a confined space and under controlled growing and harvesting procedures. It includes farmed aquatic animals intended as human food (catfish, trout, and oysters), bait (minnows), and pets (goldfish and tropical aquarium fish).
SIC 0279 Animal Specialties, Not Elsewhere Classified - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of animal specialties, not elsewhere classified, such as pets, bees, worms, and laboratory animals. This industry also includes establishments deriving 50 percent or more of their total value of sales of agricultural products from animal specialties, but less than 50 percent from products of any single industry.
SIC 0291 General Farms, Primarily Livestock and Animal Specialties - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification includes establishments deriving 50 percent or more of their total value of sales of agricultural products from livestock and animal specialties and their products, but less than 50 percent from products of any single three-digit industry group.
SIC 0711 Soil Preparation Services - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in land breaking, plowing, application of fertilizer, seed bed preparation, and other services for improving the soil for crop planting. Establishments primarily engaged in land clearing and earth moving for terracing and pond and irrigation construction are classified in SIC 1629: Heavy Construction, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 0721 Crop Planting, Cultivating, and Protecting - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This group covers establishments primarily engaged in performing crop planting, cultivating, and protecting services. Establishments engaged in complete maintenance of citrus groves, orchards, and vineyards are classified in SIC 0762: Farm Management Services.
SIC 0722 Crop Harvesting, Primarily by Machine - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry encompasses establishments primarily engaged in mechanical harvesting, picking and combining of crops, and related activities, using machinery provided by the service firm. Crops undergoing mechanical harvesting include berries, fruit, cotton, grain, nuts, sugar beets, sugarcane, and vegetables.
SIC 0723 Crop Preparation Services for Market, Except Cotton Ginning - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in performing services on crops, subsequent to their harvest, with the intent of preparing them for market or further processing. Establishments primarily engaged in buying farm products for resale to other than the general public for household consumption and which also prepare them for market or further processing are regarded as wholesale trade establishments.
SIC 0724 Cotton Ginning - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments engaged in cotton ginning.
SIC 0741 Veterinary Services for Livestock - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments of licensed practitioners primarily engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine, dentistry, or surgery for cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, and poultry. Similar establishments primarily engaged in veterinary medicine for all other animals are classified in SIC 0742: Veterinary Services for Animal Specialties.
SIC 0742 Veterinary Services for Animal Specialties - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry consists of establishments of licensed practitioners primarily engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine, dentistry, or surgery for animal specialties, including horses, bees, fish, fur-bearing animals, rabbits, dogs, cats, and other pets and birds, except poultry. Establishments primarily engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine for cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, and poultry are classified in SIC 0741: Veterinary Services for Livestock.
SIC 0751 Livestock Services, Except Veterinary - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in performing services, except veterinary, for cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, and poultry. Dairy herd improvement associations are also included in this industry.
SIC 0752 Animal Specialty Services, Except Veterinary - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification covers establishments primarily engaged in performing services for pets, equines, and other animal specialties. These establishments include kennels, animal shelters, stables, breeders of animals other than livestock, pet registries, and a host of other animal care services.
SIC 0761 Farm Labor Contractors and Crew Leaders - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category describes establishments primarily engaged in supplying labor for agriculture production of harvesting. Establishments primarily engaged in machine harvesting are classified in Industry 0722 (see SIC 0722: Crop Harvesting, Primarily by Machine).
SIC 0762 Farm Management Services - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category describes establishments primarily engaged in providing farm management and maintenance services for farms, citrus groves, orchards, and vineyards. Such activities may include supplying contract labor for agricultural production and harvesting, inspecting crops and fields to estimate yield, determining crop transportation and storage requirements, and hiring and assigning workers to tasks involved in the harvesting and cultivating of crops; but establishments primarily engaged in performing such services without farm management services are classified in the appropriate specific industry within Industry Group 072.
SIC 0781 Landscape Counseling and Planning - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This classification includes establishments engaged in landscape planning and landscape architectural and counseling services.
SIC 0782 Lawn and Garden Services - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
The lawn and garden services industry is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in performing a variety of landscape maintenance services. Companies that install artificial turf are included in SIC 1799: Special Trade Contractors, Not Elsewhere Classified.
SIC 0783 Ornamental Shrub and Tree Services - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
Companies primarily engaged in performing a variety of shrub and tree services make up the ornamental shrub and tree services industry. Activities common to this industry include ornamental bush and tree planting, pruning, bracing, spraying, removal, and surgery.
SIC 0811 Timber Tracts - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in the operations of timber tracts or tree farms for the purpose of selling standing timber. Establishments not holding timber tracts as real property (not for sale of timber) are classified in SIC 6519: Lessors of Real Property, Not Elsewhere Classified and logging establishments are classified in SIC 2411: Logging.
SIC 0831 Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in growing trees for purposes of reforestation or in gathering forest products. The concentration or distillation of these products, when carried on in the forest, is included in this industry.
SIC 0851 Forestry Services - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in performing, on a contract or fee basis, services related to timber production, wood technology, forestry economics and marketing, and other forestry services, not elsewhere classified, such as cruising timber, fire fighting, and reforestation.
SIC 0912 Finfish - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the commercial catching or taking of finfish, including cod, menhaden, pollack, salmon, and tuna.
SIC 0913 Shellfish - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification includes establishments primarily engaged in the commercial taking of shellfish. The shellfish designation includes mollusks (such as clams, mussels, oysters, and squid) and crustaceans (such as crabs, crayfish, lobsters, and shrimp).
SIC 0919 Miscellaneous Marine Products - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This industry classification covers establishments primarily engaged in miscellaneous fishing activities, such as catching or taking of miscellaneous marine plants and animals. Plants and animals covered under this code include seaweed, sponges, sea urchins, terrapins, turtles, and frogs.
SIC 0921 Fish Hatcheries and Preserves - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category covers establishments primarily engaged in operating fish hatcheries or preserves. Establishments primarily engaged in raising and harvesting aquatic animals are classified in SIC 0273: Animal Aquaculture.
SIC 0971 Hunting and Trapping and Game Propagation - Description, Market Prospects, Industry History
This category includes establishments primarily engaged in commercial hunting and trapping, or in the operation of game preserves.