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SIC Description for 2879 Description for 2879: Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified

Division D: Manufacturing

Major Group 28: Chemicals And Allied Products

Industry Group 287: Agricultural Chemicals

2879 Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified

Establishments primarily engaged in the formulation and preparation of ready-to-use agricultural and household pest control chemicals, including insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides, from technical chemicals or concentrates; and the production of concentrates which require further processing before use as agricultural pesticides. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing or formulating agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, such as minor or trace elements and soil conditioners. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing basic or technical agricultural pest control chemicals are classified in Industry Group 281 if the chemicals are inorganic and in Industry Group 286 if they are organic. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing agricultural lime products are classified in Major Group 32. Agricultural disinfectants Agricultural pesticides Arsenates: calcium, copper, and lead-formulated Arsenites, formulated Bordeaux mixture Calcium arsenate and arsenite, formulated Cattle dips Copper arsenate, formulated Defoliants Elements, minor or trace (agricultural chemicals) Exterminating products, for household and industrial use Fly sprays Fungicides Growth regulants, agricultural Herbicides Household insecticides Insect powder, household Insecticides, agricultural Lead arsenate, formulated Lime-sulfur, dry and solution Lindane, formulated Moth repellants Nicotine and salts Nicotine bearing insecticides Paris green (insecticide) Pesticides, household Phytoactin Plant hormones Poison: ant, rat, roach, and rodent-household Pyrethrin bearing preparations Pyrethrin concentrates Rodenticides Rotenone bearing preparations Rotenone concentrates Sheep dips, chemical Sodium arsenite (formulated)pp(Soil conditioners Sulfur dust (insecticide) Thiocyanates, organic (formulated) Trace elements (agricultural chemicals) Xanthone (formulated)

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