Classification sub-group 102-03 - Farming livestock NEC

Industry sector 1 – Agriculture and forestry

Rate risk category 250%

Farmers and family members of farmers are exempt from mandatory coverage.

Please refer to relevant exclusion excerpt from The Workers Compensation Act (the Act) under Regulation 169/2008 below.

Included	Similar but classified elsewhere
Stock farms – the care and breeding of livestock, including production of grain and hay for feed. Can include cattle, horses, sheep, or any animals raised to be sold (excluding poultry or hogs). Dairy farming – producing milk, which includes the care and milking of cows, goats or sheep.	Coverage for farmers (personal) and/or their family members (optional farm family) is available by application. Combination of crop farming and raising livestock is found under 102-02 – Farming – Crop production. Raising hogs or poultry, including egg production, is found under 103-02 – Hog and poultry farming. The production of a variety of fruits and/or vegetables is found under 103-05 – Greenhouses, nurseries and market gardening. The operation of stockyards is found under 301-05 – Stockyards.
Incidental activities, such as cleaning own animal waste and transporting animals from their own barn or feedlot.	Custom feedlot cleaning is found under 501-03 – Waste management, snow removal and towing. Custom transportation of animals or animal products (i.e., not own animals/products) is found under 501-02 – Local and long-haul trucking. Medical treatment of animals is found under 714-03 – Veterinary and pet services.
Operating a ranch farm of cattle and horses.
The operation of a fur farm.	Operation of a hatchery is found under 103-04 – Beekeeping and hatcheries. Raising animals as household pets or operation of a kennel is found under 714-03 – Veterinary and pet services.

Relevant Exclusion(s): Schedule A, Regulation 169/2008, WCA

Farmers and family members of farmers

15(1) A farmer or someone in their family who works on a farm that is owned or operated

by the farmer
by a family farm corporation – being a corporation
1. that is primarily engaged in the business of farming
2. that is under the control of the farmer or a family member of the farmer
3. a combination of which a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of each class of shares are legally and beneficially owned by the farmer or a family member of the farmer

15(2) The following definitions apply in this section.

“family member of a farmer” means:

a spouse or common-law partner of the farmer
a child of the farmer or a child of the farmer’s spouse or common-law partner
a parent of the farmer or a spouse or common-law partner of the parent
a brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, grandchild or grandparent of the farmer or of the farmer’s spouse or common-law partner
a parent of the farmer’s spouse or common-law partner
a current or former foster parent of the farmer or of the farmer’s spouse or common-law partner
a current or former foster child, ward or guardian of the farmer or of the farmer’s spouse or common-law partner
the spouse or common-law partner of a person mentioned in any of clauses (d) to (g)
any other person whom the farmer considers to be like a close relative, whether or not they are related by blood, adoptions, marriage or common-law relationship

“farming” means the primary production of livestock, poultry, livestock and poultry products, fruits, vegetables, grains, oilseeds, pulse, forage, market garden or horticultural products or other agricultural products, and includes the cutting of timber or lumber ties, cordwood or pulpwood.

“farmer” means an individual who:

receives a significant portion of his or her income either directly or indirectly from his or her occupation of farming
spends a significant portion of his or her time actively engaged in farming