2005 Idaho Code - 72-1304 — AGRICULTURAL LABOR

                                  TITLE  72
                      WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED
                        LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
                                  CHAPTER 13
                           EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW
    72-1304.  AGRICULTURAL LABOR. (1) "Agricultural labor" means all services
performed:
    (a)  On a farm, in the employ of any person in connection with cultivating
    the soil, or raising or harvesting any agricultural, aquacultural or
    horticultural commodities, including the raising, shearing, feeding,
    caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, fish, poultry,
    and fur-bearing animals and wildlife;
    (b)  In the employ of the owner or 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 a hurricane if
    the major part of such service is performed on a farm;
    (c)  In connection with the operation or maintenance of ditches, canals,
    reservoirs, or waterways not owned or operated for profit and used
    exclusively for supplying and storing water, at least ninety percent (90%)
    of which was ultimately delivered for agricultural purposes during the
    preceding calendar year; and
    (d)  In the employ of any farm operator or group of operators, organized
    or unorganized, in handling, planting, drying, packing, packaging,
    eviscerating, 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, aquacultural or horticultural
    commodities, if such operator or group, in both the current and preceding
    calendar years produced more than one-half (1/2) of the commodities with
    respect to which such service is performed.
This subsection is not applicable to services performed in commercial canning,
freezing, or dehydrating, or in connection with any agricultural, aquacultural
or horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market for
distribution for consumption.
    (2)  "Farm" includes stock, dairy, fish, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing
animal and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, hatcheries, ranges,
greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of
agricultural, aquacultural or horticultural commodities, and orchards.
    (3)  "Unmanufactured state" means retention of its original form and
substance.
    (4)  "Terminal market" means a place of business to which products are
shipped in a sorted, graded, packaged condition, ready for immediate sale.