Analysis
NAICS 111421 is the 2022 national industry for nursery and tree production, part of 11142 (Nursery and Floriculture Production). Census lists 18 example activities under it in the official index.
Census lists 5 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 11121, 113110, 444240 and 424910. 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.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include azalea farming, christmas tree growing, corms farming and field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery), among 18 in all.
Its goods appear in 30 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 0602 (other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and…), 0601 (bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes…) and 0604 (foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, growing vegetable and melon bedding plants are classified in 11121 (Vegetable and Melon Farming) instead.
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.
Official definition
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.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Growing vegetable and melon bedding plants | 11121 Vegetable and Melon Farming |
| Operating timber tracts (i.e., growing cycle greater than 10 years) | 113110 Timber Tract Operations |
| Retailing nursery, tree stock, and floriculture products primarily purchased from others | 444240 Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of plant seeds and plant bulbs primarily purchased from others | 424910 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers |
| Merchant wholesale distribution of nursery stock (except seeds and plant bulbs) primarily purchased from others | 424930 Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers |
Index entries (18)
- 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