UK SIC 2007 · 01610
Support activities for crop production (SIC code 01610)
Farm support businesses file here. Contract farming, harvest contractors, agronomy services and other help for arable and horticultural growers all count. It is the largest UK farming SIC outside livestock.
This division holds Britain's working farms. It covers arable growers, livestock keepers and the contractors who help them. Mixed farming, code 01500, is the most common choice. Family farms pick it when they run crops and animals together. Growers of cereals and oilseed use 01110 instead. Agricultural contractors sit in the support codes 01610 and 01629. That takes in crop spraying, livestock work and shearing. Many firms here are long-established partnerships. They only became limited companies in the last few years.
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Who prospects SIC 01610 companies
Accountants with farm clients watch this division. A farm that incorporates has usually just restructured. That brings steady compliance work, from payroll to capital allowances on machinery. Land agents, farm insurers and machinery dealers sell here too. A recent incorporation date is the strongest signal. It often marks a succession or a new diversification project. Farm websites are frequently years out of date. The poor-website filter finds those firms quickly, which suits web designers and rural marketing services. Filing deadlines give accountants a natural moment to get in touch.
Lead generation for wholesalers & suppliers →How to read SIC 01610
SIC 01610 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 01, are the division, crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities. Add the third and you have group 016; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section A, agriculture, forestry and fishing, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
More on how SIC 01610 is built
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 01610 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 01610 are London (188), Cambridge (51), York (34), Norwich (34) and Lincoln (32). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 01610 as a filter
3,129 companies is 0.06 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 01610 third most used of the 17 codes we track in division 01. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
More on filtering by SIC 01610
Almost everybody who uses 01610 means it: 2,743 of 3,129 companies put it first, leaving only 386 carrying it as a secondary code. That makes it an unusually clean filter. You can match on the code alone and trust that the companies you get really are in this line of work.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 6 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 11 per cent, so the remaining 89 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 01610 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 01610, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 3,129 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job. Every company you pull carries the Companies House record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 01610 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 01610
Are agronomists filed under SIC 01610?
Yes. UK agronomists, soil consultants and crop-protection advisors all file 01610. The exception is a sales-led agronomy business, which would file 46210 (wholesale of grain and similar).
How do farm suppliers find leads under SIC 01610?
Pair SIC 01610 with arable postcodes. LN, NR, IP and NN cover East England. YO covers Yorkshire. SY covers the Welsh borders. About 70% of UK arable-support businesses sit in those regions.
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