---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 780.217"
title: "29"
number: "780.217"
heading: "Forestry activities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/780.217"
---

# §780.217. Forestry activities.


Operations in a forest tree nursery such as seeding new beds and growing and transplanting forest seedlings are not farming operations. For such operations to fall within [sec. 3(f)](/cfr/29/3.md?p=f), they must qualify under the second part of the definition dealing with incidental practices. See [§ 780.201](/cfr/29/780.201.md).


## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 77239, Dec. 18, 2008. Redesignated at 74 FR 26015, May 29, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 75 Stat. 65; 29 U.S.C. 201-219. Pub. L. 105-78, 111 Stat. 1467.

### Source

Source: 37 FR 12084, June 17, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 77239, Dec. 18, 2008. Redesignated at 74 FR 26015, May 29, 2009]