111998 All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) growing crops (except oilseeds and/or grains; vegetables and/or melons; fruits and/or tree nuts; greenhouse, nursery, and/or floriculture products; tobacco; cotton; sugarcane; hay; sugar beets; or peanuts); (2) growing a combination of crops (except a combination of oilseed(s) and grain(s); and a combination of fruit(s) and tree nut(s)) with no one crop or family of crops accounting for one-half of the establishment's agricultural production (i.e., value of crops for market); or (3) gathering tea or maple sap.

Examples Census gives

• Agave farming
• Mint farming
• General combination crop farming (except oilseed and grain; vegetables and melons; fruit and tree nut combinations)
• Hay seed farming
• Grass seed farming
• Hop farming
• Spice farming

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 oilseeds and/or wheat, corn, rice, or other grains are classified in Industry Group 1111, Oilseed and Grain Farming.
• Growing vegetables and/or melons are classified in Industry Group 1112, Vegetable and Melon Farming.
• Growing fruits and/or tree nuts are classified in Industry Group 1113, Fruit and Tree Nut Farming.
• Growing greenhouse, nursery, and/or floriculture products are classified in Industry Group 1114, Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production.
• Growing tobacco are classified in Industry 111910, Tobacco Farming.
• Growing cotton are classified in Industry 111920, Cotton Farming.
• Growing sugarcane are classified in Industry 111930, Sugarcane Farming.
• Growing hay are classified in Industry 111940, Hay Farming.
• Growing sugar beets are classified in U.S. Industry 111991, Sugar Beet Farming.
• Growing peanuts are classified in U.S. Industry 111992, Peanut Farming.
• Growing algae, seaweed, or other aquatic plants are classified in U.S. Industry 112519, Other Aquaculture.

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

Activities listed under 111998

The Census index assigns these 31 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Agave farming
• Alfalfa seed farming
• Aloe farming
• Amaranth farming
• Bentgrass seed farming
• Bluegrass-Kentucky seed farming
• Cannabis, grown in an open field
• Chicory farming
• Clover seed farming
• Crimson cloves seed farming
• Fescue seed farming
• General combination crop farming (except fruit and nut combinations, oilseed and grain, vegetable)
• Grass seed farming
• Guar farming
• Hay seed farming
• Hemp, grown in an open field
• Herb farming, open field
• Hop farming
• Jojoba farming
• Kenaf farming
• Maple sap concentrating (i.e., producing pure maple syrup in the field)
• Maple sap gathering
• Maple syrup (i.e., maple sap reducing)
• Marijuana, grown in an open field
• Mint farming
• Orchard grass seed farming
• Ryegrass seed farming
• Sorghum sudan seed farming
• Spice farming
• Syrup, pure maple (i.e., maple syrup reducing)
• Tea farming

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 111998

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 111998, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $2.5 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: 0111, 0116, 0012, 0127, 0128, 0129, 0150, 0230, 1072), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 01110Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seedsUK SIC
• 01160Growing of fibre cropsUK SIC
• 01270Growing of beverage cropsUK SIC
• 01280Growing of spices, aromatic, drug and pharmaceutical cropsUK SIC
• 01290Growing of other perennial cropsUK SIC
• 01500Mixed farmingUK SIC
• 02300Gathering of wild growing non-wood productsUK SIC
• 10720Manufacture of rusks and biscuits; manufacture of preserved pastry goods and cakesUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 111991Sugar Beet Farming
• 111992Peanut Farming