424590 Other Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of farm products (except grain and field beans, livestock, raw milk, live poultry, and fresh fruits and vegetables).

Examples Census gives

• Chicks, live, merchant wholesalers
• Hemp merchant wholesalers
• Mules merchant wholesalers
• Hides merchant wholesalers
• Raw cotton merchant wholesalers
• Horses merchant wholesalers
• Nuts, unprocessed or shelled only, merchant wholesalers
• Raw pelts merchant wholesalers
• Leaf tobacco merchant wholesalers
• Sod merchant wholesalers

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:

• Merchant wholesale distribution of raw milk are classified in Industry 424430, Dairy Product (except Dried or Canned) Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of live poultry (except chicks) are classified in Industry 424440, Poultry and Poultry Product Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of grain, dry beans, and soybeans and other inedible beans are classified in Industry 424510, Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of livestock (except horses and mules), such as cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats are classified in Industry 424520, Livestock Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables are classified in Industry 424480, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of leaf tobacco that also engage in stemming tobacco are classified in Industry 424940, Tobacco Product and Electronic Cigarette Merchant Wholesalers.

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

Activities listed under 424590

The Census index assigns these 37 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Animal hair, wool, or mohair merchant wholesalers
• Auction markets, tobacco, horses, mules, merchant wholesalers
• Bees merchant wholesalers
• Bovine semen merchant wholesalers
• Bristles merchant wholesalers
• Broomcorn merchant wholesalers
• Cannabis merchant wholesalers
• Chicks, live, merchant wholesalers
• Cocoa beans merchant wholesalers
• Cotton, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Feathers merchant wholesalers
• Fibers, vegetable, merchant wholesalers
• Furs, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Hemp merchant wholesalers
• Hides merchant wholesalers
• Hops merchant wholesalers
• Horses merchant wholesalers
• Leaf tobacco merchant wholesalers
• Marijuana merchant wholesalers
• Mohair, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Mules merchant wholesalers
• Nuts, unprocessed or shelled only, merchant wholesalers
• Oil kernels merchant wholesalers
• Oil nuts merchant wholesalers
• Oilseeds merchant wholesalers
• Peanuts, bulk, unprocessed, merchant wholesalers
• Pelts, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Raw farm products (except field beans, grains) merchant wholesalers
• Semen, bovine, merchant wholesalers
• Silk, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Skins, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Sod merchant wholesalers
• Spices, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Sugar, raw, merchant wholesalers
• Tobacco, leaf, merchant wholesalers
• Wool tops and noils merchant wholesalers
• Wool, raw, merchant wholesalers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 424590

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 424590, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 175 employees. 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: 4620, 4630), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 46210Wholesale of grain, unmanufactured tobacco, seeds and animal feedsUK SIC
• 46220Wholesale of flowers and plantsUK SIC
• 46230Wholesale of live animalsUK SIC
• 46240Wholesale of hides, skins and leatherUK SIC
• 46310Wholesale of fruit and vegetablesUK SIC
• 46320Wholesale of meat and meat productsUK SIC
• 46330Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fatsUK SIC
• 46341Wholesale of fruit and vegetable juices, mineral water and soft drinksUK SIC
• 46342Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beveragesUK SIC
• 46350Wholesale of tobacco productsUK SIC
• 46360Wholesale of sugar and chocolate and sugar confectioneryUK SIC
• 46370Wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa and spicesUK SIC
• 46380Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscsUK SIC
• 46390Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobaccoUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 424510Grain and Field Bean Merchant Wholesalers
• 424520Livestock Merchant Wholesalers