Farm-Product Raw Materials Wholesalers

Establishments primarily engaged in buying and marketing grain, including corn, wheat, oats, barley, and unpolished rice, as well as dry beans, soybeans, and other inedible beans. This industry includes country grain elevators that buy or receive grain from farmers, along with terminal elevators and other merchants involved in grain marketing. Sample business functions include wholesale distribution of barley, bulk dry beans, inedible beans, unshelled beans, corn, grain elevators (excluding storage-only facilities), grain, oats, unpolished rice, and soybeans.

Establishments primarily engaged in buying and marketing farm products not elsewhere classified. Sample business functions include wholesale distribution of animal hair, bristles, broomcorn, chicks, raw cotton, and dried beet pulp. This industry also includes buyers and dealers of raw farm products (excluding grain and field beans), cotton merchants not affiliated with exchanges, and country buyers of cotton or cotton linters.