Analysis
NAICS 423820 is the 2022 national industry for farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, part of 42382 (Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers). Census lists 28 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 7,500 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 112,992 people at an average annual payroll of $74,615 per employee (61st percentile of national industries). 31% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include agricultural implements merchant wholesalers, agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, blowers, snow and leaf, merchant wholesalers and combines merchant wholesalers, among 28 in all.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 0% and employment rose 9%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of specialized machinery, equipment, and related parts generally used in agricultural, farm, and lawn and garden activities.
Illustrative Examples:
Animal feeders merchant wholesalers Lawnmowers merchant wholesalers Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers Harvesting machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers Planting machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Index entries (28)
- Agricultural implements merchant wholesalers
- Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Blowers, snow and leaf, merchant wholesalers
- Combines merchant wholesalers
- Conveying equipment, farm, merchant wholesalers
- Crop preparation machinery (e.g., cleaning, conditioning, drying) merchant wholesalers
- Cultivating machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Feeders, animal, merchant wholesalers
- Frost protection machinery merchant wholesalers
- Garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Harvesting machinery and equipment, agriculture, merchant wholesalers
- Haying machines merchant wholesalers
- Irrigation equipment merchant wholesalers
- Land preparation machinery, agricultural, merchant wholesalers
- Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Lawnmowers merchant wholesalers
- Milking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers
- Plows, farm, merchant wholesalers
- Poultry equipment merchant wholesalers
- Snowblowers, household-type, merchant wholesalers
- Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers
- Spreaders, fertilizer, merchant wholesalers
- Sprinklers, agricultural, merchant wholesalers
- Sprinklers, garden, merchant wholesalers
- Tillers, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers
- Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers