337 U.S. 755 (1949) Cited 145 times 2 Legal Analyses
In Farmers Reservoir, for example, the Supreme Court concluded that "the physical operation, control and maintenance" of "canals, reservoirs, and headgates" for a company that stored water and distributed it to farms through the company's canals were activities "[c]learly... not done on a farm."
Holding that the processing by a farmer of commodities of other farmers is incidental to, or in conjunction with, the farming operations of those other farmers and therefore not within the definition of agriculture