NAICS 115114—Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning)

Where 115114 sits

1. 11 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
2. 115 Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
3. 1151 Support Activities for Crop Production
4. 11511 Support Activities for Crop Production
5. 115114 Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning)

Description

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.

Cross-references for 115114

• 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.

Index entries for 115114

42 entries from the official NAICS alphabetic index that classify under this code.

• Almond hulling and shelling
• Banana ripening
• Bean cleaning
• Corn drying
• Corn shelling
• Crop cleaning
• Decorticating flax
• Delinting cottonseed
• Filbert hulling and shelling
• Fruit precooling
• Fruit sorting, grading, and packing
• Fruit, sun drying
• Fruit, vacuum cooling
• Fumigating grain
• Grain cleaning
• Grain drying
• Grain fumigation
• Grain grinding (except custom grinding for animal feed)
• Hulling and shelling of nuts
• Irradiation of fruits and vegetables
• Nut hulling and shelling
• Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables
• Packing fruits and vegetables
• Peanut shelling
• Pecan hulling and shelling
• Potato curing
• Retting flax
• Rice drying
• Seed cleaning
• Seed processing, postharvest for propagation
• Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables
• Sun drying of dates, prunes, raisins, and olives
• Sun drying of fruits and vegetables
• Sun drying of tomatoes
• Sweet potato curing
• Tobacco grading
• Vegetable precooling
• Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing
• Vegetable sun drying
• Vegetable vacuum cooling
• Walnut hulling and shelling
• Waxing, fruits or vegetables

115114 in other systems