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Industry: 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	Lindane, formulated
Agricultural pesticides	Moth repellants
Arsenates: calcium, copper, and lead-formulated	Nicotine and salts
Arsenites, formulated	Nicotine bearing insecticides
Bordeaux mixture	Paris green (insecticide)
Calcium arsenate and arsenite, formulated	Pesticides, household
Cattle dips	Phytoactin
Copper arsenate, formulated	Plant hormones
Defoliants	Poison: ant, rat, roach, and rodent-household
Elements, minor or trace (agricultural chemicals)	Pyrethrin bearing preparations
Exterminating products, for household and industrial use	Pyrethrin concentrates
Fly sprays	Rodenticides
Fungicides	Rotenone bearing preparations
Growth regulants, agricultural	Rotenone concentrates
Herbicides	Sheep dips, chemical
Household insecticides	Sodium arsenite (formulated)pp(Soil conditioners
Insect powder, household	Sulfur dust (insecticide)
Insecticides, agricultural	Thiocyanates, organic (formulated)
Lead arsenate, formulated	Trace elements (agricultural chemicals)
Lime-sulfur, dry and solution	Xanthone (formulated)

Codes	Titles	Total Marketable US Businesses
2879	Agricultural Chemicals, Nec	1,067
287900	Agricultural chemicals, nec	644
28790000	Agricultural chemicals, nec	644
287901	Insecticides and pesticides	288
28790100	Insecticides and pesticides	113
28790101	Arsenates, arsenites (formulated)	1
28790103	Cattle dips	1
28790104	DDT (insecticide), formulated	2
28790105	Exterminating products, for household or industrial use	15
28790106	Insecticides, agricultural or household	42
28790107	Pesticides, agricultural or household	114
28790108	Pyrethrin concentrates and preparations	0
28790110	Sheep dips, chemical	0
287999	Agricultural chemicals, nec, nec	135
28799901	Agricultural disinfectants	35
28799902	Defoliants	0
28799903	Fungicides, herbicides	31
28799904	Plant hormones	9
28799905	Soil conditioners	48
28799906	Trace elements (agricultural chemicals)	12