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(1) This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 12th September 1989.
(2) Any reference in this Order to“the Schedule” shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to this Order, and a reference to column 3 of the Schedule shall be construed as including a reference to the note to that column.
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(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 1989, 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.
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The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1988 is hereby revoked.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on  26th July 1989.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Peter Walker
Secretary of State for Wales
25th July 1989
SCHEDULE
Articles 1(2) and 2


Column 1 Farming use Column 2 Unit of production Column 3 Net annual income from unit of production
  £
1. Livestock
Dairy cows:
Channel Islands breeds cow 174
Other breeds cow 221
Beef breeding cows:
On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984 which is–
severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land cow 73
On other land cow 34
Beef fattening cattle (intensive) head 55(1)
Dairy replacements head 50(1)
Other cattle head 40(1)
Calves fattened for veal head 20
Ewes:
On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984 which is–
severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land ewe 7
On other land ewe 8
Store lambs (including ewe lambs sold as shearlings) head 1.50
Goats (Dairy) goat 68
Pigs:
Sows and gilts in pig sow or gilt 55
Porker head 2.40
Cutter head 3.40
Bacon head  4
Poultry:
Laying hens bird 0.85
Broilers bird 0.10
Capons bird 0.55
Point-of-lay pullets bird 0.20
Turkeys bird 0.85
Ducks bird 0.35
Rabbits doe 10
2. Farm arable crops
Barley hectare 75
Beans or peas-stockfeed hectare 92
Herbage seed hectare 116
Linseed hectare 85
Mixed corn hectare 54
Oats hectare 77
Oilseed rape hectare 111
Peas:
Dried hectare 95
Vining hectare 130
Potatoes:
First early hectare 460
Maincrop (including seed) hectare 438
Rye hectare 68
Sugar Beet hectare 200
Wheat hectare 95
3. Outdoor horticultural crops
Asparagus hectare 1550
Beans:
Broad hectare 400
French hectare 300
Runner hectare 2200
Beetroot hectare 1130
Brussels sprouts hectare 900
Cabbage, Savoys and sprouting broccoli hectare 1000
Carrots hectare 1455
Cauliflower and winter broccoli hectare 1200
Celery hectare 5100
Leeks hectare 2200
Lettuce hectare 2700
Nursery stock:
Container grown 1000 square metres 4490
Field grown hectare 4800
Onions:
Dry bulb hectare 1160
Salad hectare 3200
Outdoor bulbs hectare 1550
Parsnips hectare 1000
Rhubarb-natural hectare 2500
Turnips and swedes hectare 400
Watercress 1000 square metres 3100
4. Protected crops
Single crop cycle:
Heated ornamentals 1000 square metres 10000
Fully heated vegetable (approximately 22°C lift in temperature, 1000 square metres 5800
Forced narcissus 1000 square metres 4000
Forced tulips 1000 square metres 5100
Mushrooms 1000 square metres 9200
Crop sequences:
Heated (approximately 18°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 4100
Heat assisted (approximately 8°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 3200
Unheated 1000 square metres 2300
5. Orchard fruit
Apples:
Cider hectare 300
Cooking hectare 750
Dessert hectare 750
Cherries hectare 600
Pears hectare 720
Plums hectare 550
6. Soft fruit
Blackcurrants hectare 710
Gooseberries hectare 750
Raspberries hectare 2300
Strawberries hectare 2500
7. Miscellaneous
Bees colony 12
Deer breeding hind 16
Hops hectare 700
Trout-for-table tonne 300
Vines hectare 350