NAICS 115114 · Agriculture
Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning): Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 1,101 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
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.
Businesses classified here include
- Almond hulling and shelling
- Banana ripening
- Bean cleaning
- Corn drying
- Corn shelling
- Crop cleaning
- Decorticating flax
- Delinting cottonseed
- Filbert hulling and shelling
- Fruit precooling
- Fruit sorting, grading, and packing
- Fruit, sun drying
- Fruit, vacuum cooling
- Fumigating grain
- Grain cleaning
- Grain drying
- Grain fumigation
- Grain grinding (except custom grinding for animal feed)
- Hulling and shelling of nuts
- Irradiation of fruits and vegetables
- Nut hulling and shelling
- Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and vegetables
- Packing fruits and vegetables
- Peanut shelling
- Pecan hulling and shelling
- Potato curing
- Retting flax
- Rice drying
- Seed cleaning
- Seed processing, postharvest for propagation
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 115114), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for postharvest crop activities (except cotton ginning)
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Name words that fit, with their meanings
U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for postharvest crop activities (except cotton ginning)
- California 235 locations
- Washington 70 locations
- Texas 63 locations
- Iowa 56 locations
- Georgia 52 locations
- Oregon 51 locations
- Oklahoma 50 locations
- Florida 44 locations
- Idaho 30 locations
- Illinois 28 locations
All 41 states
- Alabama (6)
- Arizona (18)
- Arkansas (24)
- California (235)
- Colorado (22)
- Delaware (3)
- Florida (44)
- Georgia (52)
- Idaho (30)
- Illinois (28)
- Indiana (11)
- Iowa (56)
- Kansas (7)
- Kentucky (3)
- Louisiana (13)
- Maryland (10)
- Michigan (20)
- Minnesota (27)
- Mississippi (10)
- Missouri (17)
- Montana (13)
- Nebraska (23)
- Nevada (6)
- New Jersey (8)
- New Mexico (8)
- New York (10)
- North Carolina (19)
- North Dakota (26)
- Ohio (12)
- Oklahoma (50)
- Oregon (51)
- Pennsylvania (17)
- South Carolina (14)
- South Dakota (18)
- Tennessee (5)
- Texas (63)
- Utah (6)
- Virginia (15)
- Washington (70)
- Wisconsin (18)
- Wyoming (3)