111421 Nursery and Tree Production

Overview

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.

Cross-References

  • 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; and
  • 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.

Index Entries

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