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Fruit Farm & DriversDescription
Code 0007 applies to employers engaged in growing fruit on trees such as apples, cherries, peaches, pears, plums and quinces.
This classification also applies to a farm where the gross annual income from the sale of such fruit constitutes more than 50% of the total income for all farm products grown and sold.
Farmhands may be seasonal or full-time employees who are engaged in planting, spraying, pruning, picking and packing operations. Ladders, picking equipment or tree shakers are used to pick the fruit off the trees when ripened which will be placed in buckets, sorted, graded and packed for delivery or shipment.
The sorting, washing, grading, waxing, or packing of fruit grown by the employer is inclusive under this classification.
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Operations to be Separately Rated
- Farms:
- Poultry farm. Refer to Code 0034 “Poultry Farm & Drivers.”
- Vegetable, berry or grape farm. Refer to Code 0031 “Vegetable, Berry or Grape Farm & Drivers.”
- Farms operated in connection with camps, resorts or seasonal hotels, hospitals, asylums, estates, and schools are not assigned to a farm classification if all of the farmed products are used exclusively by such institutions. If any of the farm products are sold commercially, the farm payroll will be assigned to the appropriate farm classification.
- Stand selling fruit to individual customers. Refer to Code 8006 “Grocery Store – Retail – No Fresh Meat.”
Cannery operations. Refer to Code 2111 “Cannery – NOC.”
Cider making, juice squeezing, or winery. Refer to Code 2143 “Fruit Juice Mfg. – All Operations.”
Sorting, washing, grading, waxing or packing fruit grown by others. Refer to Code 2105 “Fruit Packing.”