Section 147.02. Affected employers.

  An employer shall be considered to be primarily engaged in agricultural production, agricultural services, forestry, or commercial fishing, hunting, or trapping if the department determines that the employer's primary type of business activity is one of those specified in figure DWD 147.02 and assigns the employer one of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes listed in that figure. [see Figure 147.02 following]

History: Cr. Register, October, 1994, No. 466 , eff. 11-1-94. Figure DWD 147.02: Major Group 01. - Agricultural Production - Crops This major group includes establishments (e. g. farms, orchards, greenhouses, nurseries) primarily engaged in the production of crops, plants, vines, and trees (excluding forestry operations). Also includes establishments primarily engaged in the operation of sod farms, and cranberry bogs; in the production of mushrooms, bulbs, flower seeds, and vegetable seeds; and in the growing of hydroponic crops. Seeds of field crops are classified in the same industry as crops grown for other purposes. - See PDF for table Major Group 02. - Agricultural Production - Livestock and Animal Specialties This major group includes establishments (e. g. farms, ranches, dairies, feedlots, egg production facilities, broiler facilities, poultry hatcheries, apiaries) primarily engaged in the keeping, grazing, or feeding of livestock for the sale of livestock or livestock products (including serums), for livestock increase, or for value increase. Livestock, as used here, includes cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, and poultry of all kinds; also included in this major group are animal specialties, such as horses, rabbits, bees, fish in captivity, and fur-bearing animals in captivity. - See PDF for table Major Group 07. - Agricultural Services This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in performing soil preparation services, crop services, veterinary services, other animal services, farm labor and management services, and landscape and horticultural services, for others on a contract or fee basis. - See PDF for table Major Group 08. - Forestry This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in the operation of timber tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, and related activities such as reforestation services and the gathering of gums, barks, balsam needles, maple sap, Spanish moss, and other forest products. - See PDF for table Major Group 09. - Fishing, Hunting, and Trapping This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in commercial fishing (including crabbing, lobstering, clamming, oystering, and the gathering of sponges and seaweed), and the operation of fish hatcheries and fish and game preserves, in commercial hunting and trapping, and in game propagation. - See PDF for table