NAICS 115114
What is the NAICS code 115114?
The NAICS code 115114 is applied to those industries related to Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning).
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing services on crops, subsequent to their harvest, with the intent of preparing them for market or further processing. These establishments provide postharvest activities, such as crop cleaning, sun drying, shelling, fumigating, curing, sorting, grading, packing, and cooling.
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 115114 in the North American Industry Classification System.
This industrial activity of NAICS code is structured as follows:
- 11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
- 115 - Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
- 1151 - Support Activities for Crop Production
- 11511 - Support Activities for Crop Production
- 115114 - Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning)
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 115114
NAFTA
This code is only used in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It´s to say, it is not used in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Related codes
The NAICS industry 115114 has the following cross-references:
- Artificially drying and dehydrating fruits and vegetables are classified in U.S. Industry 311423, Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing.
- Buying farm products for resale to other wholesalers or retailers and preparing them for market or further processing are classified in Industry 424480, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers.
- Custom grain grinding for animal feed are classified in U.S. Industry 311119, Other Animal Food Manufacturing.
- Ginning cotton are classified in U.S. Industry 115111, Cotton Ginning.
- Providing farm management services (i.e., on a contract or fee basis) and arranging or contracting postharvesting crop activities for the farm(s) they manage are classified in U.S. Industry 115116, Farm Management Services.
- Stemming and redrying tobacco are classified in Industry 312230, Tobacco Manufacturing.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the Postharvest Crop activities (NAICS Code except Cotton Ginning) industry (NAICS Code 115114):
- Almond hulling and shelling
- Banana ripening
- Bean cleaning
- Corn drying
- Corn shelling
- Crop cleaning
- Decorticating flax
- Delinting cottonseed
- Filbert hulling and shelling
- Fruit precooling
- Fruit sorting, grading, and packing
- Fruit, sun drying
- Fruit, vacuum cooling
- Fumigating grain
- Grain cleaning
- Grain drying
- Grain fumigation
- Grain grinding (except custom grinding for animal feed)
- Hulling and shelling of nuts
- Irradiation of fruits and vegetables
- Nut hulling and shelling
- Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables
- Packing fruits and vegetables
- Peanut shelling
- Pecan hulling and shelling
- Potato curing
- Retting flax
- Rice drying
- Seed cleaning
- Seed processing, postharvest for propagation
- Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables
- Sun drying of dates, prunes, raisins, and olives
- Sun drying of fruits and vegetables
- Sun drying of tomatoes
- Sweet potato curing
- Tobacco grading
- Vegetable precooling
- Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing
- Vegetable sun drying
- Vegetable vacuum cooling
- Walnut hulling and shelling
- Waxing, fruits or vegetables
