SIC 5159 Farm-Product Raw Materials, Not Elsewhere Classified

SIC 5159

This industry consists of establishments primarily engaged in buying or marketing farm products that are not included in another classification. Some samples of the industry's products are animal hair, bristles, feathers, furs and hides, broom corn, raw cotton, hops, unprocessed or shelled-only nuts, tobacco leaf, raw silk, and bovine semen. Animals including chicks, horses, and mules are also industry products.

NAICS CODE(S)

424590

Other Farm Product Raw Materials Wholesalers

In 2001, the U.S. Census Bureau reported 1,517 establishments engaged in buying or marketing farm products that are not included in another classification. The total number of employees represented was 12,866, with an annual payroll of $468.8 million. By early 2007, D & B Sales & Marketing Solutions reported that the estimated number of establishments in this industry totaled 2,973, with 18,357 total employees, and annual sales of nearly $19 billion. The average sales per establishment, however, had declined to $6.8 million.

The industry was subdivided into five categories: cotton, representing 34.7 percent of the industry's total sales volume; other farm-product raw...