Industry Description
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing services on crops, subsequent to their harvest, with the intent of preparing them for market or further processing. These establishments provide postharvest activities, such as crop cleaning, sun drying, shelling, fumigating, curing, sorting, grading, packing, and cooling.
Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in--
Business Examples
Common types of business activities within NAICS 115114 - Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning are:
- Sun drying of tomatoes
- Pecan hulling and shelling
- Corn drying
- Peanut shelling
- Fruit precooling
- Bean cleaning
- Sweet potato curing
- Hulling and shelling of nuts
- Fruit sorting, grading, and packing
- Fruit, vacuum cooling
- Almond hulling and shelling
- Grain fumigation
- Vegetable precooling
- Crop cleaning
- Nut hulling and shelling
- Retting flax
- Delinting cottonseed
- Rice drying
- Walnut hulling and shelling
- Waxing, fruits or vegetables
- Packing fruits and vegetables
- Filbert hulling and shelling
- Tobacco grading
- Sun drying of dates, prunes, raisins, and olives
- Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables
- Irradiation of fruits and vegetables
- Banana ripening
- Grain grinding (except custom grinding for animal feed)
- Fruit, sun drying
- Seed processing, postharvest for propagation
- Seed cleaning
- Potato curing
- Decorticating flax
- Vegetable sun drying
- Grain drying
- Grain cleaning
- Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables
- Vegetable vacuum cooling
- Corn shelling
- Sun drying of fruits and vegetables
- Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing
- Fumigating grain
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Crop Services in the US (11511)
Revenue 2025
$32.4bn
Growth 2025
-0.51%
Key Trends
As farms with surpluses still required services to maintain their crops and avoid long-term production declines, profit ultimately grew
As states implemented shelter-in-place policies, demand for agricultural products shifted from restaurants to grocery stores
Crop prices set by farmers are expected to increase
Products and Services
Similar Industries
For some business types, there may be a similar industry to 115114 - Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning that is a better classification match. Establishments primarily engaged in:
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NAICS Cross Reference
Ginning cotton--are classified in U.S. Industry 115111, Cotton Ginning;
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NAICS Cross Reference
Providing farm management services (i.e., on a contract or fee basis) and arranging or contracting postharvesting crop activities for the farm(s) they manage--are classified in U.S. Industry 115116, Farm Management Services.
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NAICS Cross Reference
Custom grain grinding for animal feed--are classified in U.S. Industry 311119, Other Animal Food Manufacturing;
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Artificially drying and dehydrating fruits and vegetables--are classified in U.S. Industry 311423, Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing;
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Stemming and redrying tobacco--are classified in Industry 312230, Tobacco Manufacturing;
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Buying farm products for resale to other wholesalers or retailers and preparing them for market or further processing--are classified in Industry 424480, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers; and
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NAICS Hierarchy 115114 - Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning
NAICS Code 115114 - Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning sits in the 2-digit Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning sector. NAICS codes can be 2- to 6-digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be. Learn more about the structure of NAICS codes
2 Digits: 11
Sector Title: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
3 Digits 4 Digits 5 Digits 6 Digits
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1111 Oilseed and Grain Farming
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11111 Soybean Farming
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11112 Oilseed (except Soybean) Farming
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11113 Dry Pea and Bean Farming
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11114 Wheat Farming
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11115 Corn Farming
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11116 Rice Farming
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11119 Other Grain Farming
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1112 Vegetable and Melon Farming
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11121 Vegetable and Melon Farming
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1113 Fruit and Tree Nut Farming
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11131 Orange Groves
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11132 Citrus (except Orange) Groves
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11133 Noncitrus Fruit and Tree Nut Farming
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1114 Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production
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11141 Food Crops Grown Under Cover
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11142 Nursery and Floriculture Production
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1119 Other Crop Farming
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11191 Tobacco Farming
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11192 Cotton Farming
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11193 Sugarcane Farming
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11194 Hay Farming
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11199 All Other Crop Farming
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1121 Cattle Ranching and Farming
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11211 Beef Cattle Ranching and Farming, including Feedlots
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11212 Dairy Cattle and Milk Production
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11213 Dual-Purpose Cattle Ranching and Farming
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1122 Hog and Pig Farming
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11221 Hog and Pig Farming
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1123 Poultry and Egg Production
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11231 Chicken Egg Production
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11232 Broilers and Other Meat Type Chicken Production
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11233 Turkey Production
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11234 Poultry Hatcheries
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11239 Other Poultry Production
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1124 Sheep and Goat Farming
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11241 Sheep Farming
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11242 Goat Farming
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1125 Aquaculture
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1129 Other Animal Production
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11291 Apiculture
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11292 Horses and Other Equine Production
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11293 Fur-Bearing Animal and Rabbit Production
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11299 All Other Animal Production
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1131 Timber Tract Operations
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11311 Timber Tract Operations
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1132 Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products
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11321 Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products
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1133 Logging
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11331 Logging
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1141 Fishing
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1142 Hunting and Trapping
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11421 Hunting and Trapping
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1151 Support Activities for Crop Production
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1152 Support Activities for Animal Production
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11521 Support Activities for Animal Production
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1153 Support Activities for Forestry
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11531 Support Activities for Forestry
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