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(1) This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 12th September 1990.
(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.
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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 1990, 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 1989 is hereby revoked.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 15th August 1990.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Ian Grist
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales
16th August 1990
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 215
Other breeds cow 271
Beef breeding cows:
On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984 which is–
severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land cow 79
On other land cow 37
Beef fattening cattle (intensive) head 50
Dairy replacements head 60
Other cattle head 35
Calves fattened for veal head 18
Ewes:
On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1984 which is–
severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land ewe 8
On other land ewe 7
Store lambs (including ewe lambs sold as shearlings) head 1.40
Goats (Dairy) goat 68
Pigs:
Sows and gilts in pig sow or gilt 95
Porker head 4.10
Cutter head 5.40
Bacon head 6
Poultry:
Laying hens bird 1.20
Broilers bird 0.15
Capons bird 0.65
Point-of-lay pullets bird 0.25
Turkeys bird 0.95
Ducks bird 0.35
Rabbits doe 9
2. Farm arable crops
Barley hectare 75
Beans or peas-stockfeed hectare 80
Herbage seed hectare 100
Linseed hectare 85
Oats hectare 77
Oilseed rape hectare 111
Peas:
Dried hectare 80
Vining hectare 120
Potatoes:
First early hectare 460
Maincrop (including seed) hectare 438
Rye hectare 68
Sugar Beet hectare 220
Wheat hectare 95
3. Outdoor horticultural crops
Asparagus hectare 1700
Beans:
Broad hectare 440
French hectare 330
Runner hectare 2400
Beetroot hectare 1285
Brussels sprouts hectare 950
Cabbage, savoys and sprouting broccoli hectare 1050
Carrots hectare 1650
Cauliflower and winter broccoli hectare 1300
Celery hectare 5500
Leeks hectare 2400
Lettuce hectare 3000
Nursery stock:
Container grown 1000 square metres 5000
Field grown hectare 5500
Onions:
Dry bulb hectare 1300
Salad hectare 3700
Outdoor bulbs hectare 1450
Parsnips hectare 1000
Rhubarb-natural hectare 2000
Turnips and swedes hectare 400
4. Protected crops
Single crop cycle:
Heated ornamentals 1000 square metres 11000
Fully heated vegetable (approximately 22°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 6200
Forced narcissus 1000 square metres 4500
Forced tulips 1000 square metres 6000
Mushrooms 1000 square metres 9000
Crop sequences:
Heat (approximately 18°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 4500
Heated assisted (approximately 8°C lift in temperature) 1000 square metres 3500
Unheated 1000 square metres 2400
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 3000
7. Miscellaneous
Deer breeding hind 20
Hops hectare 700
Trout for table tonne 300