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29 CFR §780.205

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The employees of a nursery who are engaged in the following activities are employed in “agriculture”:
  1. (a)Sowing seeds and otherwise propagating fruit, nut, shade, vegetable, and ornamental plants or trees (but not Christmas trees), and shrubs, vines, and flowers;
  2. (b)Handling such plants from propagating frames to the field;
  3. (c)Planting, cultivating, watering, spraying, fertilizing, pruning, bracing, and feeding the growing crop.