2022 NAICS industry in sector 11 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
11142 Nursery and Floriculture Production
NAICS 11142 is the US industry code for nursery and floriculture production. It covers establishments primarily engaged in (1) growing nursery and floriculture products (e.g., nursery stock, shrubbery, cut flowers, flower seeds, foliage plants) under cover or in open fields and/or (2) growing short rotation woody trees with a growing and harvesting cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock (e.g., cut Christmas trees, cottonwoods).
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) growing nursery and floriculture products (e.g., nursery stock, shrubbery, cut flowers, flower seeds, foliage plants) under cover or in open fields and/or (2) growing short rotation woody trees with a growing and harvesting cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock (e.g., cut Christmas trees, cottonwoods).
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Growing vegetable and melon bedding plants are classified in Industry 11121, Vegetable and Melon Farming.
- Operating timber tracts (i.e., growing cycle greater than 10 years) are classified in Industry 11311, Timber Tract Operations.
- Retailing nursery, tree stock, and floriculture products primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 44424, Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers.
- Merchant wholesale distribution of plant seeds and plant bulbs primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 42491, Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.
- Merchant wholesale distribution of nursery stock (except seeds and plant bulbs) primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 42493, Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.
Codes in 11142
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