SIC 0139 Field Crops Except Cash Grains, Not Elsewhere Classified

SIC 0139

This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of field crops, except cash grains, not classified elsewhere. This category includes a range of crops for human or livestock consumption, encompassing farms that produce alfalfa, broomcorn, clover, grass seed, hay, hops, mint, peanuts, sweet potatoes, timothy, and yams. This category also includes establishments deriving 50 percent or more of their total value of sales of agricultural products from field crops, except cash grains, but less than 50 percent from products of any single industry.

NAICS CODE(S)

111940

Hay Farming

111992

Peanut Farming

111219

Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming

111998

All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming

Sweet Potatoes and Yams

Yams grown in the United States actually are a variety of sweet potato, but with a moister, golden red flesh. Sweet potatoes are light yellow or pale orange in color. Yams, grown primarily in North Carolina, account for about half of all sweet potato consumption in the United States and are consumed mainly in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states. North Carolina, the leading producer of sweet potatoes, combined with Louisiana, Mississippi, and California to account for more than 90 percent of U.S. sweet potato production in 2005, when the value of production topped $300 million for the first time. The total number of acres planted fell from 96,000 in 2004 to 91,000 in 2005, and the total...