NAICS 1153Industry group · 4-digitregional market1 market record

Support activities for forestry

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing particular support activities, related to harvesting timber. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 1,667
Under 10 employeesA: 75%
Establishments · USA: 1,979
Employment · USA: 15,609
Payroll · USA: $937M

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–496858%

5–927717%

10–1920212%

20–491459%

50–99372%

100–199231%

200–499141%

500+10%

Of 1,667 Canadian establishments with employees, 75% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

British Columbia64539%

Quebec48829%

Ontario18011%

Alberta1589%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting, US · opened 2020

88%

1 year

71.7%

3 years

61.8%

5 years

53%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 115, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionlow capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 115 Support activities for agriculture and forestry

Genuinely low-capital service work, bounded by drive time and by customers whose ability to pay follows a commodity price.

Who sets the price: The farm or forest operation buying the service, itself a price taker.
The software it runs on: Light — scheduling and invoicing; the customer's farm-management system is the record.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreened

Silviculture & Tree-Planting ContractingExecution decides

binding constraint: willingness to pay

Crew-based planting and stand-tending contracting, seasonal and reachable — and in Canada a genuine industry with a labour culture of its own. It cuts on who sets the price: the work is let by tender from a small number of licensees and provincial programmes, so the contractor bids against other contractors into a buyer's market, and the margin is whatever the lowest credible bid leaves. Piece-rate crews carry the volume risk, the contractor carries the weather and the camp cost, and neither carries pricing power. What a study would have to test: whether carbon-offset and reforestation-commitment money is actually paying a different rate from licensee silviculture obligations. If it is, that is a genuinely different customer with a different price, and this record should be reopened.

NAICS 11533 vendors named7 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Light — scheduling and invoicing; the customer's farm-management system is the record.

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 1

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
Brinkman & Associates ReforestationPrivate	Support activities for forestry1153	—	1/1

Who works here

The occupations employed in Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Tagged to this industry

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Logging and forestry workers

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture One industry 93.1%

Fishing vessel masters and fishermen/women One industry 92.4%

Workers in agriculture and fishing occupations One industry 88.9%

Agriculture, horticulture and harvesting labourers and related occupations One industry 85.4%

Logging machinery operators One industry 81.9%

Logging and forestry workers Mostly one sector 61.5%

Contractors and supervisors, agriculture, horticulture and related operations and services Mostly one sector 16.3%

Managers in natural resources production and fishing Mostly one sector 12.5%

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Mostly one sector 6.5%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 6.2%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 14.2%

Accounting, insurance and related business administrative occupations Across the economy 3%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 1.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 1.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 1.4%

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 1.1%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 1%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 1%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 75% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 1153, and 2 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
11531	Support activities for forestry	1,667	screened at 1153

Alongside it, under 115 Support activities for agriculture and forestry

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
1151	Support activities for crop production	1,536	Farm Management & Precision Agriculture Precision Agriculture & Crop Support
1152	Support activities for animal production	868	Mobile Livestock Support Services