112112

Analysis

NAICS 112112 is the 2022 national industry for cattle feedlots, part of 11211 (Beef Cattle Ranching and Farming, including Feedlots). 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 beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation), cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation), fattening cattle and feed yards (except stockyards for transportation), cattle, among 5 in all.

For example, operating stockyards for transportation and not buying, selling, or auctioning livestock are classified in 488999 (All Other Support Activities for Transportation) instead.

Census lists 1 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 488999. 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.