Subpart B. Subpart B-General Scope of Agriculture

• Introductory

  • SECTION § 780.100 - Scope and significance of interpretative bulletin.
  • SECTION § 780.101 - Matters discussed in this subpart.
  • SECTION § 780.102 - Pay requirements for agricultural employees.
  • SECTION § 780.103 - “Agriculture” as defined by the Act.
  • SECTION § 780.104 - How modern specialization affects the scope of agriculture.
  • SECTION § 780.105 - “Primary” and “secondary” agriculture under section 3(f).

• Exemption for “Primary” Agriculture Generally

  • SECTION § 780.106 - Employment in “primary” agriculture is farming regardless of why or where work is performed.

• Farming in All Its Branches

  • SECTION § 780.107 - Scope of the statutory term.
  • SECTION § 780.108 - Listed activities.
  • SECTION § 780.109 - Determination of whether unlisted activities are “farming.”

• Cultivation and Tillage of the Soil

  • SECTION § 780.110 - Operations included in “cultivation and tillage of the soil.”

• Dairying

  • SECTION § 780.111 - “Dairying” as a farming operation.

• Agricultural or Horticultural Commodities

  • SECTION § 780.112 - General meaning of “agriculture or horticultural commodities.”
  • SECTION § 780.113 - Seeds, spawn, etc.
  • SECTION § 780.114 - Wild commodities.
  • SECTION § 780.115 - Forest products.
  • SECTION § 780.116 - Commodities included by reference to the Agricultural Marketing Act.

• “Production, Cultivation, Growing, and Harvesting” of Commodities

  • SECTION § 780.117 - “Production, cultivation, growing.”
  • SECTION § 780.118 - “Harvesting.”

• Raising of Livestock, Bees, Fur-bearing Animals, or Poultry

  • SECTION § 780.119 - Employment in the specified operations generally.
  • SECTION § 780.120 - Raising of “livestock.”
  • SECTION § 780.121 - What constitutes “raising” of livestock.
  • SECTION § 780.122 - Activities relating to race horses.
  • SECTION § 780.123 - Raising of bees.
  • SECTION § 780.124 - Raising of fur-bearing animals.
  • SECTION § 780.125 - Raising of poultry in general.
  • SECTION § 780.126 - Contract arrangements for raising poultry.
  • SECTION § 780.127 - Hatchery operations.

• Practices Exempt Under “Secondary” Meaning of Agriculture Generally

  • SECTION § 780.128 - General statement on “secondary” agriculture.
  • SECTION § 780.129 - Required relationship of practices to farming operations.

• Practices Performed “By a Farmer”

  • SECTION § 780.130 - Performance “by a farmer” generally.
  • SECTION § 780.131 - Operations which constitute one a “farmer.”
  • SECTION § 780.132 - Operations must be performed “by” a farmer.
  • SECTION § 780.133 - Farmers' cooperative as a “farmer.”

• Practices Performed “On a Farm”

  • SECTION § 780.134 - Performance “on a farm” generally.
  • SECTION § 780.135 - Meaning of “farm.”
  • SECTION § 780.136 - Employment in practices on a farm.

• “Such Farming Operation”-of the Farmer

  • SECTION § 780.137 - Practices must be performed in connection with farmer's own farming.
  • SECTION § 780.138 - Application of the general principles.
  • SECTION § 780.139 - Pea vining.
  • SECTION § 780.140 - Place of performing the practice as a factor.

• “Such Farming Operations”-On the Farm

  • SECTION § 780.141 - Practices must relate to farming operations on the particular farm.
  • SECTION § 780.142 - Practices on a farm not related to farming operations.
  • SECTION § 780.143 - Practices on a farm not performed for the farmer.

• Performance of the Practice “As an Incident To or In Conjunction With” the Farming Operations

  • SECTION § 780.144 - “As an incident to or in conjunction with” the farming operations.
  • SECTION § 780.145 - The relationship is determined by consideration of all relevant factors.
  • SECTION § 780.146 - Importance of relationship of the practice to farming generally.
  • SECTION § 780.147 - Practices performed on farm products-special factors considered.

• Practices Included When Performed as Provided in Section 3(f)

  • SECTION § 780.148 - “Any” practices meeting the requirements will qualify for exemption.
  • SECTION § 780.149 - Named practices as well as others must meet the requirements.

• Preparation for Market

  • SECTION § 780.150 - Scope and limits of “preparation for market.”
  • SECTION § 780.151 - Particular operations on commodities.

• Specified Delivery Operations

  • SECTION § 780.152 - General scope of specified delivery operations.
  • SECTION § 780.153 - Delivery “to storage.”
  • SECTION § 780.154 - Delivery “to market.”
  • SECTION § 780.155 - Delivery “to carriers for transportation to market.”

• Transportation Operations Not Mentioned in Section 3(f)

  • SECTION § 780.156 - Transportation of farm products from the fields or farm.
  • SECTION § 780.157 - Other transportation incident to farming.

• Other Unlisted Practices Which May Be Within Section 3(f)

  • SECTION § 780.158 - Examples of other practices within section 3(f) if requirements are met.
  • SECTION § 780.159 - Forest products.