Includes operation of seed sorting machinery.

Code 8102 applies to employers that principally perform the handling and merchandising of seeds.  These seed merchants receive harvested grass, alfalfa or other field crop seeds, vegetable seeds, or flower seeds in bulk from growers. The merchandising is usually handled on a wholesale basis, but some seed merchants sell at retail and conduct store activities on the premises where they display racks of seed packets and have sacks of seeds available for sale along with other incidental articles used by residential gardeners. These store operations are included within the scope of this classification provided these employers process the seeds.

This classification is also applied to employers that perform bean sorting or handling.  This classification contemplates the receipt of peanuts in bulk from growers and the machine cleaning, grading, visual inspection, and machine sacking of the unshelled peanuts which are then stored prior to shipment to peanut vendors. Some of these employers will perform shelling operations, usually by machine.