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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp following are likely to come within the definition of “agricultureâ€� and be subject to an Agricultural Wages Order

• care of and attention to bulls kept and used in connection with artificial insemination;
• care of and attention to poultry in batteries or other housed poultry;
• drawing and plucking poultry for a first sale, on the premises on which the birds are reared;
• planting, felling and other jobs generally connected with the establishment, maintenance and harvesting of woodland or forests;
• employment in the gardens of a hotel, school, convent, hospital or other institution growing food wholly or mainly for outside sale or for consumption on the premises;
• packing and grading of eggs or other produce on the farm on which the eggs were produced (but not at a packing station);
• pheasant breeding if the land on which they are reared contributes to their upkeep and if they are reared to be eaten or sold as food but not for shooting;
• grass drying where it involves the employer’s own grass;
• agricultural mechanics where they are employed by the farmer himself/herself rather than by a third party or by a contractor.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp following are unlikely to come within the definition of “agricultureâ€� and are not subject to an Agricultural Wages Order

• care of and attention to poultry or bantams kept solely as a hobby for showing at country shows etc;
• chick sexing;
• seed analysis;
• packing and grading of eggs or other produce at a packing station;
• groundsmen looking after playing fields or the greens of a golf course;
• the “privateâ€� gardener producing fruit or flowers for use in the private household of the employer, or employed in amenity grounds e.g. tending lawns, flower beds etc. (»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp determining factor is whether the gardener is employed on the production of “consumable produceâ€� - this may for example include flowers - that is grown for sale or for consumption or other use for the purpose of a trade or business or of any undertaking whether carried out for profit or not);
• exclusive employment as a landscape gardener;
• employment at hunting or racing stables, e.g. as a groom;
• preparing poultry after the birds have been purchased from a primary producer;
• gamekeeping;
• a worker engaged solely on distributive duties, such as milk transport from the farm;
• employment as a temperature regulator in a greenhouse;
• artificial insemination;
• employment as a blacksmith;
• scrubbing and cleaning incubators and trays on a holding run independently of a farm where the eggs are produced;
• peat walling.