Nursery

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-019225",
  "term": "Nursery",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The growth phase immediately after weaning until pigs enter the grow-finish building. Many larger operations are eliminating the nursery phase and placing newly weaned pigs in a growing building where they stay till marketed.\n\n2. Any operation engaged in the outdoor production of any agricultural plant to produce cut flowers and ferns or plants that will be used in their entirety in another location. Such plants include, but are not limited to, flowering and foliage plants or trees; tree seedlings; live Christmas trees; vegetable, fruit, and ornamental transplants; and turfgrass produced for sod.\n\n3. An immature male or female swine animal managed between birth and growing/finishing.",
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "Ag 101 Glossary of American Agriculture",
    "40 CFR 170.3 (CFR 2013)",
    "AgSTAR Handbook Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/nursery/"
}