Industry Code: 01905
This classification describes businesses that grow and harvest sod.
Operation Details:
Grass is regularly fertilized and watered (usually with some type of movable irrigation system) and cut. When the grass is well established, a tractor-mounted cutter harvests the roots and soil in short or long strips of approximately two-inches in thickness. The sod strips are sold, loaded and delivered, most often by trucks with flatbeds and an unloading device.
Employers may utilize mobile equipment, farm-type tractors/spreaders, sod-cutters, and trucks, and maintain a store-front operation to sell related landscaping/gardening accessories. Workers employed may be horticulturists, farm-hand laborers, sales/estimators, and office/administration.
Underwriting Considerations:
Installing the sod merely involves rolling out the sod or 'mats', and forms part of this industry when conducted as part of the sale and delivery of the sod. Sod installation only is classified in Landscaping, industry 02100. Grain or livestock farms that grow and cultivate sod require this classification when workers are devoted to this undertaking. Businesses may associate with Landscape Alberta Nursery Trades Association (LANTA).
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Farms, Sod
Sod Growers
Rate Group History:
For 1993, Landscaping (industry 02100) and Install Underground Sprinklers (industry 42136) were placed in rate group 016300 in recognition of similar activities and services as Tree/Shrub Nurseries (industry 01904), Sod Farms (industry 01905) and Lawn Maintenance/Fertilization (industry 02103).
Effective 1997, rate group 016300 describing landscaping-type activities was placed into rate group 421501.
This classification describes businesses that grow and harvest sod.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Farms, Sod
Sod Growers
Operation Details:
Grass is regularly fertilized and watered (usually with some type of movable irrigation system) and cut. When the grass is well established, a tractor-mounted cutter harvests the roots and soil in short or long strips of approximately two-inches in thickness. The sod strips are sold, loaded and delivered, most often by trucks with flatbeds and an unloading device.
Employers may utilize mobile equipment, farm-type tractors/spreaders, sod-cutters, and trucks, and maintain a store-front operation to sell related landscaping/gardening accessories. Workers employed may be horticulturists, farm-hand laborers, sales/estimators, and office/administration.
Underwriting Considerations:
Installing the sod merely involves rolling out the sod or 'mats', and forms part of this industry when conducted as part of the sale and delivery of the sod. Sod installation only is classified in Landscaping, industry 02100. Grain or livestock farms that grow and cultivate sod require this classification when workers are devoted to this undertaking. Businesses may associate with Landscape Alberta Nursery Trades Association (LANTA).
Rate Group History:
For 1993, Landscaping (industry 02100) and Install Underground Sprinklers (industry 42136) were placed in rate group 016300 in recognition of similar activities and services as Tree/Shrub Nurseries (industry 01904), Sod Farms (industry 01905) and Lawn Maintenance/Fertilization (industry 02103).
Effective 1997, rate group 016300 describing landscaping-type activities was placed into rate group 421501.