111421 Nursery and Tree Production

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) growing nursery products, nursery stock, shrubbery, bulbs, fruit stock, sod, and so forth, under cover or in open fields and/or (2) growing short rotation woody trees with a growth and harvest cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

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 113110, Timber Tract Operations.
• Retailing nursery, tree stock, and floriculture products primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 444240, Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of plant seeds and plant bulbs primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 424910, Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of nursery stock (except seeds and plant bulbs) primarily purchased from others are classified in Industry 424930, Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 111421

The Census index assigns these 18 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Azalea farming
• Christmas tree growing
• Corms farming
• Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery)
• Flower bulb growing
• Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing
• Herbaceous perennial growing
• Nursery stock growing
• Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation)
• Preseeded mat farming
• Propagation material farming
• Rose bush growing
• Short rotation woody tree growing (i.e., growing and harvesting cycle ten years or less)
• Shrubbery farming
• Sod farming
• Tissue culture farming
• Tree crop farming (except forestry), short rotation growing and harvesting cycle
• Turf farming

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 111421

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 111421, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $3.25 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 0129, 0130), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 01290Growing of other perennial cropsUK SIC
• 01300Plant propagationUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

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