
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 12th September 1988.
(2) Any reference in this Order to “the Schedule” shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to this Order, and the reference to column 3 of the Schedule shall be construed as including a reference to the note to that column.
2 

(1) Paragraph (2) of this article has effect for the purpose of the assessment of the productive capacity of a unit of agricultural land, in order to determine whether that unit is a commercial unit of agricultural land within the meaning of subparagraph (1) of paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.
(2) Where the land in question would be capable, when farmed under competent management, of carrying or producing any such livestock, crop etc. as is mentioned in any entry in column 1 of the Schedule—
(a) the unit of production prescribed in relation to that use of the land shall be the unit specified in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to that entry, and
(b) the amount which, for the period of 12 months beginning with 12th September 1988, is to be regarded for the purposes of the said paragraph 3 as the net annual income from that unit of production in that period shall be the amount so specified in column 3 of the Schedule.
3 
The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1987() is hereby revoked.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on  9th August 1988.
John MacGregor
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
4th August 1988
SCHEDULE
Articles 1(2) and 2


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Farming use Unit of production Net annual income from unit of production
  £

1 
Livestock
 Dairy cows:

 Channel Islands breeds cow 152

 Other breeds cow 195

 Beef breeding cows:
 On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (CompensatoryAllowances) Regulations 1984()which is—
 severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land cow 57

 On other land cow 20

 Beef fattening cattle (intensive) head 32

 Dairy replacements head 50

 Other cattle head 32

 Calves fattened for veal head 18

 Ewes:
 On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984 which is—
 severely disadvantaged land ordisadvantaged land ewe 7

 On other land ewe 8

 Store lambs (including ewe lambs sold as shearlings) head 1·80

 Goats (Dairy) goat 68

 Pigs:
 Sows and gilts in pig sow or gilt 65

 Porker head 3

 Cutter head 4·50

 Bacon head 5·50

 Poultry:

 Laying hens bird 1·20

 Broilers bird 0·14

 Capons bird 0·70

 Point-of-lay pullets bird 0·25

 Turkeys bird 0·90

 Ducks bird 0·38

 Rabbits doe 10

2 
Farm arable crops

 Barley hectare 89

 Beans or peas—stockfeed hectare 111

 Herbage seed hectare 120

 Linseed hectare 90

 Mixed corn hectare 60

 Oats hectare 82

 Oilseed rape hectare 131

 other oilseeds hectare 70

 Peas:
 Dried hectare 111

 Vining hectare 140

 Potatoes:
 First early hectare 450

 Maincrop (including seed) hectare 510

 Rye hectare 85

 Sugar Beet hectare 205

 Wheat hectare 115

3 
Outdoor horticultural crops

 Asparagus hectare 1241

 Beans:
 Broad hectare 325

 French hectare 250

 Runner hectare 2100

 Beetroot hectare 890

 Brussels sprouts hectare 880

 Cabbage, Savoys and sprouting broccoli hectare880

 Carrots hectare 1025

 Cauliflower and winter broccoli hectare 990

 Celery hectare 3900

 Leeks hectare 1970

 Lettuce hectare 2200

 Nursery stock:
 Container grown 1000 square metres 4300

 Field grown hectare 4600

 Onions:
 Dry bulb hectare 1000

 Salad hectare 3000

 Outdoor bulbs hectare 1400

 Parsnips hectare 890

 Rhubarb—natural hectare 2450

 Turnips and swedes hectare 400

 Watercress 1000 square metres 2150

4 
Protected crops

 Single crop cycle:
 Heated ornamentals 1000 square metres 7400

 Fully heated vegetable (approximately 22°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 4650

 Forced narcissus 1000 square metres 3000

 Forced tulips 1000 square metres 4600

 Mushrooms 1000 square metres 6200

 Crop sequences:
 Heated (approximately 18°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 3250

 Heat assisted (approximately 8°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 2500

 Unheated 1000 square metres 1900

5 
Orchard fruit

 Apples
 Cider hectare 145

 Cooking hectare 412

 Dessert hectare 425

 Cherries hectare 360

 Pears hectare 424

 Plums hectare 260

6 
Soft fruit
 Blackcurrants hectare 680

 Gooseberries hectare 861

 Raspberries hectare 2300

 Strawberries hectare 2425

7 
Miscellaneous
 Bees colony 12

 Deer breeding hind 15

 Hops hectare 700

 Trout—for table tonne 300

 Vines hectare 350