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NAICS 115114: Postharvest crop activities (except cotton ginning)

NAICS 115114 is the industry code for postharvest crop activities (except cotton ginning). Use it on loan applications, tax forms and registrations. Explore financing for agriculture and start your application when you are ready.

What 115114 covers

Businesses classified here handle crops after harvest for growers, such as cleaning, sorting, grading, drying, shelling, hulling, cooling and packing for market.

Included in this code

  • Fruit and vegetable packing houses
  • Grain drying and fumigation
  • Nut hulling and shelling
  • Produce cooling and grading
  • Seed cleaning

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Businesses that use 115114

Citrus packing houseAlmond huller and shellerProduce cooling facility

Financing for this trade

Packers and postharvest facilities use equipment loans for packing lines, optical sorters and cooling systems, real estate loans and working capital lines. Lenders look at grower contracts, volume history and food safety certifications.

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Is 115114 the right code for a crop packing, drying or postharvest service?

Yes, if your business packs, dries, cleans, sorts or shells crops for growers. The code for cotton ginning is 115111. Pick the code that matches the activity earning most of your revenue, and use that same code on your tax return, loan applications and SBA forms so lenders see one consistent picture.

What is the SBA size standard for 115114?

The SBA size standard for 115114 is $34 million in average annual receipts. A business at or under that figure, counting affiliates, is small for SBA loans such as 7(a) and 504 and for federal contracting set asides. Receipts are averaged over the five most recently completed fiscal years.

What financing do postharvest service providers use?

Packers and postharvest facilities use equipment loans for packing lines, optical sorters and cooling systems, real estate loans and working capital lines. Lenders look at grower contracts, volume history and food safety certifications. Lenders that already fund this trade move faster because they know how to read its cash cycle.

What does NAICS 115114 cover?

Postharvest crop activities (except cotton ginning). Industry level code in NAICS 2022, under 11 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, 115 Support activities for agriculture and forestry, 1151 Support activities for crop production, 11511 Support activities for crop production.

What financing do NAICS 115114 businesses use?

Equipment financing, working capital, SBA loans and invoice factoring are the products placed most for agriculture businesses. Start an application and the AI matches the deal to lenders that fund this code.

Where do I put NAICS 115114?

On the SBA loan application, on federal Schedule C or Form 1120, on SAM.gov and state registrations, and on most lender applications. A business can report more than one code; use this one if it describes what produces most of your revenue.