Not canneries.  Applies to buying or collecting from growers, sorting, grading, packing or otherwise preparing vegetables for transportation to market and buyers.

Code 8209 applies to employers engaged in vegetable packing.  The operations, generally seasonal in character, involve buyers who go to farms and arrange to purchase the farmer’s vegetable crops in bulk.  At harvest time, employees of the employer classified to this classification will collect the vegetables picked by the farmer’s crews and bring this product to a central location.  There, additional crews will sort, grade, pack or otherwise prepare the vegetables for transportation to the market.