SIC 2879—Agricultural Chemicals, NEC

Where 2879 sits

1. D Manufacturing
2. 28 Chemicals and Allied Products
3. 287 Agricultural Chemicals
4. 2879 Agricultural Chemicals, NEC

Description

Establishments primarily engaged in the formulation and preparation of ready-to-use agricultural and household pest control chemicals, including insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides, from technical chemicals or concentrates; and the production of concentrates which require further processing before use as agricultural pesticides. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing or formulating agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, such as minor or trace elements and soil conditioners.

What 2879 includes

6-digit codes

• 287900 — Agricultural Chemicals, NEC
• 287901 — Insecticides and Pesticides
• 287999 — Agricultural Chemicals, NEC

8-digit codes

• 28790000 — Agricultural chemicals, nec
• 28790100 — Insecticides and pesticides
• 28790101 — Arsenates, arsenites (formulated)
• 28790102 — Bordeaux mixture
• 28790103 — Cattle dips
• 28790104 — DDT (insecticide), formulated
• 28790105 — Exterminating products, for household or industrial use
• 28790106 — Insecticides, agricultural or household
• 28790107 — Pesticides, agricultural or household
• 28790108 — Pyrethrin concentrates and preparations
• 28790109 — Rotenone concentrates and preparations
• 28790110 — Sheep dips, chemical
• 28799900 — Agricultural chemicals, nec
• 28799901 — Agricultural disinfectants
• 28799902 — Defoliants
• 28799903 — Fungicides, herbicides
• 28799904 — Plant hormones
• 28799905 — Soil conditioners
• 28799906 — Trace elements (agricultural chemicals)

Example activities

• agricultural disinfectants
• agricultural pesticides
• arsenates: calcium, copper, and lead-formulated
• arsenites, formulated
• bordeaux mixture
• calcium arsenate and arsenite, formulated
• cattle dips
• copper arsenate, formulated
• defoliants
• elements, minor or trace (agricultural chemicals)
• exterminating products, for household and industrial use
• fly sprays
• fungicides
• growth regulants, agricultural
• herbicides
• household insecticides
• insect powder, household
• insecticides, agricultural
• lead arsenate, formulated
• lime-sulfur, dry and solution
• lindane, formulated
• moth repellants
• nicotine and salts
• nicotine bearing insecticides

Cross-references for 2879

• Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing basic or technical agricultural pest control chemicals are classified in Industry Group 281 if the chemicals are inorganic and in Industry Group 286 if they are organic.
• Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing agricultural lime products are classified in Major Group 32.

2879 in other systems