Industry Description
Establishments primarily engaged in buying and/or marketing farm products, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of milk are classified in Industry 5143, and those distributing live poultry are classified in Industry 5144.
Business Examples
Common types of business activities within US SIC 5159 - Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified are:
- Animal hair-wholesale
- Bristles-wholesale
- Broomcorn-wholesale
- Buyers of raw farm products, except grain, field beans, and
- Chicks-wholesale
- Cotton merchants, not members of exchanges-wholesale
- Cotton, raw-wholesale
- Country buyers of cotton or cotton linters
- Dealers in raw farm products, except grain, field beans, and
- Dried beet pulp-wholesale
- Feathers-wholesale
- Fibers, vegetable-wholesale
- Furs, raw-wholesale
- Hides (may include curing)-wholesale
- Hops-wholesale
- Horses-wholesale
- Merchants of raw farm products, except grain, field beans, and
- Mohair, raw-wholesale
- Moss-wholesale
- Mules-wholesale
- Nuts, unprocessed or shelled only-wholesale
- Oil kernels-wholesale
- Oil nuts-wholesale
- Oilseeds-wholesale
- Peanuts, bulk: unprocessed or shelled only-wholesale
- Pecan-wholesale
- Pelts-wholesale
- Semen, bovine-wholesale
- Silk, raw-wholesale
- Skins, raw-wholesale
- Sugar, raw-wholesale
- Tobacco auctioning and warehousing-wholesale
- Tobacco, leaf (including exporters)-wholesale
- Wool tops and noils-wholesale
- Wool, raw-wholesale
IBISWorld Industry Research Report
Grocery Wholesaling in the US (42441)
Revenue 2025
$298.2bn
Growth 2025
0.77%
Key Trends
The disproportionate size of industry players has contributed to industry consolidation over the past decade
Improving economic conditions have prompted industry revenue to grow
Competition among industry participants will continue to intensify
Products and Services
US-SIC Hierarchy 5159 - Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified
US-SIC Code 5159 - Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified sits in the 2-digit Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified sector. US SIC codes can be 2 to 8 digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be.
Division: F
Division Title: Wholesale Trade
2 Digits 3 Digits 4 Digits
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501 Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies
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502 Furniture and Home Furnishings
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503 Lumber and Other Construction Materials
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504 Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies
- 5043 Photographic Equipment and Supplies
- 5044 Office Equipment
- 5045 Computers and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software
- 5046 Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
- 5047 Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies
- 5048 Ophthalmic Goods
- 5049 Professional Equipment and Supplies, Not Elsewhere Classified
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505 Metals and Minerals, Except Petroleum
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506 Electrical Goods
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507 Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment
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508 Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies
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509 Miscellaneous Durable Goods
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511 Paper and Paper Products
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512 Drugs, Drug Proprietaries, and Druggists' Sundries
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513 Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions
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514 Groceries and Related Products
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515 Farm-product Raw Materials
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516 Chemicals and Allied Products
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517 Petroleum and Petroleum Products
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518 Beer, Wine, and Distilled Alcoholic Beverages
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519 Miscellaneous Non-durable Goods
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Extended US-SIC Hierarchy for 5159 - Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified
For business marketing and targeting, US SIC Codes have been extended to provide more specific classifications within US-SIC 5159 - Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified. Extended US SIC Codes are being continuously updated to reflect the current business environment.
6 Digit SIC Codes
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515901 Peanuts (wholesale)
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515902 Tobacco leaf-wholesale
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515903 Peanut products (wholesale)
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515904 Cotton buyers
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515905 Wool (wholesale)
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515906 Feathers (wholesale)
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515907 Horse dealers (wholesale)
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515908 Hides (wholesale)
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515909 Pecans (wholesale)
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515910 Spinning & spinning wheel supls (whol)
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515911 Hair-animal (wholesale)
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515913 Home food products-wholesale
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515915 Mohair (wholesale)
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515917 Wool brokers
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515919 Packing house by-products (wholesale)
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515999 Farm products-raw materials nec (whol)
8 Digit SIC Codes
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51590000 Farm-product raw materials, nec
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51590100 Cotton merchants and products
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51590101 Cotton merchants
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51590102 Cotton or cotton linters, country buyers
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51590103 Cotton, raw
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51590200 Farm animals
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51590201 Chicks
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51590202 Horses
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51590203 Mules
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51590300 Feathers, hides, and pelts
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51590301 Feathers
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51590302 Furs, raw
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51590303 Hides
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51590304 Pelts
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51590305 Skins, raw
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51590400 Wool and silk
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51590401 Mohair, raw
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51590402 Silk, raw
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51590403 Wool tops
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51590404 Wool, raw
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51590500 Nuts and nut by-products
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51590501 Nuts, unprocessed or shelled only
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51590502 Oil nuts, kernels, seeds
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51590503 Peanuts (bulk), unroasted
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51590504 Pecan shellers
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51590600 Tobacco distributors and products
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51590601 Tobacco auctioning and warehousing
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51590602 Tobacco, leaf
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51599900 Farm-product raw materials, nec
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51599901 Bristles
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51599902 Broomcorn
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51599903 Dried beet pulp
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51599904 Fibers, vegetable
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51599905 Hops
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51599906 Moss
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51599907 Rapeseed
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51599908 Semen, bovine
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51599909 Sugar, raw
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51599910 Corn husks
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