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CFR  

Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to ESA

Title 29  

Labor

 

Chapter V  

Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor

 

 

Part 780  

Exemptions Applicable to Agriculture, Processing of Agricultural Commodities, and Related Subjects Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

 

 

 

Subpart B  

General Scope of Agriculture


29 CFR 780.103 - ``Agriculture'' as defined by the Act.

  • Section Number: 780.103
  • Section Name: ``Agriculture'' as defined by the Act.

    Section 3(f) of the Act defines ``agriculture'' as follows:

    ``Agriculture'' includes farming in all its branches and among other 
things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the 
production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or 
horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural 
commodities in section 15(g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as 
amended), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or 
poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering 
operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in 
conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for 
market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for 
transportation to market.
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