SIC 2879 Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified

SIC Code: 2879

Code Title: Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified

Code Division: D - Manufacturing

SIC 2879 Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals, Not Elsewhere Classified Description

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)