Classification sub-group 103-02 - Hog and poultry farming

Industry sector 1 – Agriculture and forestry

Rate risk category 125%

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
Poultry farming – the care and breeding of birds in the production of meat and/or eggs. Can include chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or ostrich. Includes production of feed crops. Hog farming and hog barns – the care and breeding of hogs for the production of pork or pork products. Includes the production of feed crops.	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. Other livestock farming (e.g. cattle, dairy) is found under 102-03 – Farming livestock NEC.
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.

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

Farmers and family members of farmers

15(1) A farmer or a family member of a farmer engaged in farming on a farm that is owned or operated

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

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 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; and
spends a significant portion of his or her time actively engaged in farming.