CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS AND ACTIVITIES UNDER IWC ORDERS 8, 13, and 14
Agricultural occupations covered by Order 14 are related to the maintenance of soil, buildings
and machinery which constitute the basic farm facilities, and to the cultivation and handling of
farm commodities up through harvest, including field packing and transportation to the place of
first processing or distribution.
Not all employees of farm employers are covered by Order 14. If the grower has a packing or
processing operation in a permanently fixed structure or moving packing plant, the packing or
processing operations workers would fall under Wage Order 13.
A. Activities under Order 13 must be performed:
1. On the farmer’s own crop
2. In a permanent structure or on a moving packing plant (lettuce, carrots, dry onions)
3. In preparation for market (i.e. distribution)
B. Order 8 applies to similar operations on the farm if they include:
1. Handling any agricultural products, other than the grower’s own after harvest or
2. Any packing of a purchased crop or
3. Cooperative warehousing, cooling, grading, sorting, packing, ginning, etc., or
4. Preparing any product for distribution except for the farmer’s own product.
Growing, spraying, knocking,
gathering, sun or solar drying in
the field
Hulling, shelling, sorting, grading,
processing, packing, all drying in a
structure including oven drying or
dehydrator drying, fumigating,
shipping
Growing, spraying, tree propping,
thinning, picking
Washing, sorting, grading, fumigating,
Packing, shipping
Growing, spraying, thinning,
picking, hand cutting, spreading,
sun or solar drying in the field
Sorting, grading, moisturizing, all
drying in a structure including oven
drying or dehydrator drying, packing,
packaging, shipping
Planting, growing, weeding,
thinning, picking, field packing
Washing, sorting, grading, trimming,
packing, shipping
Planting, growing, weeding,
thinning, harvesting, field packing
Washing, sorting, grading, trimming,
packing, shipping
Growing, spraying, tree propping,
picking
Washing, sorting, grading, packing,
shipping
Planting, growing, weeding,
harvesting
Shelling, washing, sorting, grading,
packing, shipping, packaging
Planting, growing, weeding,
harvesting
Washing, sorting, grading, trimming,
packing, shipping
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