Analysis
NAICS 311119 is the 2022 national industry for other animal food manufacturing, part of 31111 (Animal Food Manufacturing). Census lists 42 example activities under it in the official index.
By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Animal Food Manufacturing, with 76.4% of them.
County Business Patterns counts 1,463 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 34,407 people at an average annual payroll of $65,883 per employee (45th percentile of national industries). 21% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing, alfalfa prepared as feed for animals, alfalfa, cubed, manufacturing and animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing, among 42 in all.
Its goods appear in 30 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2309 (preparations of a kind used in animal feeding), 1214 (rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa…) and 2308 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 311111, 31161 and 32541. 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.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing animal food (except dog and cat) from ingredients, such as grains, oilseed mill products, and meat products.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (42)
- Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing
- Alfalfa prepared as feed for animals
- Alfalfa, cubed, manufacturing
- Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing
- Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing
- Barley feed, chopped, crushed or ground, manufacturing
- Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing
- Blending animal feed
- Bone meal prepared as feed for animals and fowls
- Cattle feeds, supplements, concentrates, and premixes, manufacturing
- Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing
- Citrus pulp, cattle feed, manufacturing
- Complete feed, livestock, manufacturing
- Custom milling of animal feed
- Dairy cattle feeds, supplements, concentrates, and premixes, manufacturing
- Earthworm food and bedding manufacturing
- Feed concentrates, animal, manufacturing
- Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing
- Feed supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing
- Feeds, prepared, for animals (except cat, dog) manufacturing
- Feeds, specialty (e.g., guinea pig, mice, mink), manufacturing
- Fish food for feeding fish manufacturing
- Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed
- Grain mills, animal feed
- Hay, cubed, manufacturing
- Kelp meal and pellets, animal feed manufacturing
- Laboratory animal feed manufacturing
- Livestock feeds, supplements, concentrates and premixes, manufacturing
- Meal, alfalfa, manufacturing
- Meal, bone, prepared as feed for animals and fowls, manufacturing
- Micro and macro premixes, livestock, manufacturing
- Mineral feed supplements (except cat, dog) manufacturing
- Mineral supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing
- Mobile feed mill
- Pet food (except cat, dog) manufacturing
- Poultry feeds, supplements, and concentrates manufacturing
- Rabbit food manufacturing
- Shell crushing and grinding for animal feed
- Shell crushing for feed
- Swine feed, complete, manufacturing