# COMAR Title 09 — Maryland Department of Labor

## Subtitle 12 — Division of Labor and Industry

### Chapter 41 — Wage and Hour Law

#### Regulation .02 Agriculture.

*COMAR 09.12.41.02*

“Agriculture” means work performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with farming operations, such as:

A. The cultivation and tillage of soil, including grading, rock removal, building terraces, irrigation, and fertilization;

B. The production, growing, cultivation, or harvesting of agricultural or horticultural products or commodities;

C. Breeding, fattening, feeding, or the general care of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals whose fur has marketable value, or poultry, including poultry hatchery operations;

D. Dairying, including:

  (1) Caring for and milking of milk-giving animals,

  (2) Containing, cooling, and storage of milk when done on the farm, and

  (3) Farm-based manufacturing operations directly and closely related to dairying, such as separating cream or making butter;

E. Farming activities on experimental farms or nurseries, or in greenhouses or mushroom cellars; or

F. Duties directly and closely related to farming operations, including the:

  (1) Preparation of products or commodities for market, or

  (2) Delivery of products or commodities to storage, market, or carriers for transportation to market.