2017 NAICS Definition

T = Canadian, Mexican, and United States industries are comparable.

111421 Nursery and Tree Production

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.

Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in--

• Growing vegetable and melon bedding plants--are classified in Industry 11121, Vegetable and Melon Farming;
• Operating timber tracts (i.e., growing cycle greater than 10 years)--are classified in Industry 113110, Timber Tract Operations; and
• Retailing nursery, tree stock, and floriculture products primarily purchased from others--are classified in Industry 444220, Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores.

2007 NAICS		2012 NAICS		2017 NAICS		Corresponding Index Entries
111421		111421		111421		Azalea farming
111421		111421		111421		Christmas tree growing
111421		111421		111421		Corms farming
111421		111421		111421		Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery)
111421		111421		111421		Flower bulb growing
111421		111421		111421		Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing
111421		111421		111421		Herbaceous perennial growing
111421		111421		111421		Nursery stock growing
111421		111421		111421		Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation)
111421		111421		111421		Preseeded mat farming
111421		111421		111421		Propagation material farming
111421		111421		111421		Rose bush growing
111421		111421		111421		Short rotation woody tree growing (i.e., growing and harvesting cycle ten years or less)
111421		111421		111421		Shrubbery farming
111421		111421		111421		Sod farming
111421		111421		111421		Tissue culture farming
111421		111421		111421		Tree crop farming (except forestry), short rotation growing and harvesting cycle
111421		111421		111421		Turf farming