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Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Section
- Crop Production
This Sub-Section Crop Production
Industries in the Crop Production Sub-Section grow crops mainly for food and fiber. The Sub-Section comprises establishments, such as farms, orchards, groves, greenhouses, and nurseries, primarily engaged in growing crops, plants, vines, or trees and their seeds.
The industries in this Sub-Section are grouped by similarity of production activity, including biological and physiological characteristics and economic requirements, the length of growing season, degree of crop rotation, extent of input specialization, labor requirements, and capital demands. The production process is typically completed when the raw product or commodity grown reaches the "farm gate" for market, that is, at the point of first sale or price determination.
Establishments are classified to the crop production Sub-Section when crop production (i.e., value of crops for market) accounts for one-half or more of the establishment's total agricultural production. Within the Sub-Section, establishments are classified to a specific industry when a product or industry family of products (i.e., oilseed and grain farming, vegetable and melon farming, fruit and tree nut farming) account for one-half or more of the establishment's agricultural production. Establishments with one-half or more crop production with no one product or family of products of an industry accounting for one-half of the establishment's agricultural production are treated as general combination crop farming and are classified in Industry, All Other Crop Farming.
Industries in the Crop Production Sub-Section include establishments that own, operate, and manage and those that operate and manage. Those that manage only are classified in Sub-Section, Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry.
This Sub-Section Crop Production comprises the following industries: Oilseed and Grain Farming, Vegetable and Melon Farming, Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production, Food Crops Grown Under Cover, and Other Crop Farming.
- Growers
- Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production
This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing crops of any kind under cover and/or growing nursery stock and flowers. "Under cover" is generally defined as greenhouses, cold frames, cloth houses, and lath houses. The crops grown are removed at various stages of maturity and have annual and perennial life cycles. The nursery stock includes short rotation woody crops that have growth cycles of 10 years or less.
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