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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 09.12.41.02" title_num="09" subtitle_num="12" chapter_num="41" heading="Agriculture.">
  <text>“Agriculture” means work performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with farming operations, such as:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The cultivation and tillage of soil, including grading, rock removal, building terraces, irrigation, and fertilization;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The production, growing, cultivation, or harvesting of agricultural or horticultural products or commodities;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Breeding, fattening, feeding, or the general care of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals whose fur has marketable value, or poultry, including poultry hatchery operations;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Dairying, including:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Caring for and milking of milk-giving animals,</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Containing, cooling, and storage of milk when done on the farm, and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Farm-based manufacturing operations directly and closely related to dairying, such as separating cream or making butter;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Farming activities on experimental farms or nurseries, or in greenhouses or mushroom cellars; or</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Duties directly and closely related to farming operations, including the:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Preparation of products or commodities for market, or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Delivery of products or commodities to storage, market, or carriers for transportation to market.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>