(a) Agriculture includes farming in all its branches including the cultivation and tillage of soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities, the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.

(b) Employer includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer, as defined in Labor Law, section 2, subd. 6, in relation to an employee, as defined in Labor Law, section 2, subd. 5, but shall not include the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof.

(c) Employ includes to suffer or permit to work.

(d) Minor means any person who has not attained the age of 16 years.