(1)Agricultural labor means any
remunerated service performed:
(a)On a farm in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the
soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural
commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and
management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife;
(b)In the employ of the owner, tenant, or other operator of a farm, in
connection with the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or
maintenance of such farm and its tools and equipment, or in salvaging timber or
clearing land of brush and other debris left by an act of nature, if the major part of
the service is performed on a farm;
(c)In connection with the production or harvesting of any
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(1) Agricultural labor means any
remunerated service performed:
(a) On a farm in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the
soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural
commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and
management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife;
(b) In the employ of the owner, tenant, or other operator of a farm, in
connection with the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or
maintenance of such farm and its tools and equipment, or in salvaging timber or
clearing land of brush and other debris left by an act of nature, if the major part of
the service is performed on a farm;
(c) In connection with the production or harvesting of any commodity defined
as an agricultural commodity in section 15 (g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act,
as amended (46 Stat. 1550, sec. 3; 12 U.S.C. sec. 1141j), or in connection with the
operation or maintenance of ditches, canals, reservoirs, or waterways, not owned or
operated for profit, used exclusively for supplying and storing water for farming
purposes;
(d) In the employ of the operator of a farm in handling, planting, drying,
packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading, storing, or delivering to storage
or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, in its unmanufactured
state, any agricultural or horticultural commodity, but only if such operator
produced more than one-half of the commodity with respect to which the service is
performed; except that the provisions of this paragraph (d) are not applicable with
respect to service performed in connection with commercial canning or commercial
freezing or in connection with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its
delivery to a terminal market for distribution for consumption;
(e) In the employ of a group of operators of farms (or a cooperative
organization of which such operators are members) in the performance of service
described in paragraph (d) of this subsection (1), but only if such operators
produced more than one-half of the commodity with respect to which the service is
performed; except that the provisions of this paragraph (e) are not applicable with
respect to service performed in connection with commercial canning or commercial
freezing or in connection with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its
delivery to a terminal market for distribution for consumption; or
(f) On a farm operated for profit if the service is not in the course of the
employer's trade.
(2) As used in this section, the term farm includes stock, dairy, poultry,
fruit, fur-bearing animal, and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges,
greenhouses, or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of
agricultural or horticultural commodities and orchards.