111211

Analysis

NAICS 111211 is the 2022 national industry for potato farming, part of 11121 (Vegetable and Melon Farming). Census lists 5 example activities under it in the official index.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include potato farming, field and seed potato production, sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production, vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field… and vegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field…, among 5 in all.

Its goods appear in 11 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 0701 (potatoes, fresh or chilled) and 0714 (cassava (manioc), arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, canning or drying potatoes are classified in 31142 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning, Pickling, and Drying) instead.

Census lists 1 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 31142. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.

County Business Patterns does not cover crop and animal production, so there is no establishment count for it; farms are counted by the Census of Agriculture instead.