
2024 No. 10 (W. 4)
Landlord And Tenant, Wales
The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (Wales) Order 2024
Made 8 January 2024
Laid before Senedd Cymru 10 January 2024
Coming into force 7 February 2024
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and now vested in them make the following Order.
Title, application, coming into force and interpretation
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(1) The title of this Order is the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (Wales) Order 2024, it applies in relation to Wales and comes into force on 7 February 2024.
(2) In this Order—
 “designated maps” (“mapiau dynodedig”) means the two volumes of maps numbered 1 and 2; each volume being marked “Volume of maps of less favoured farming areas in Wales” and with the number of the volume dated 20 May 1991 and signed by the Secretary of State for Wales and deposited at the offices of the Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ;
 “disadvantaged land” (“tir dan anfantais”) (except in the expression “severely disadvantaged land”) means any area of land shown coloured blue on the designated maps;
 “eligible hectare” (“hectar cymwys”) has the same meaning as in Article 32(2) of Regulation 1307/2013;
 “less favoured area” (“ardal lai ffafriol”) means any area of disadvantaged land or severely disadvantaged land;
 “Regulation 1307/2013” (“Rheoliad 1307/2013”) means Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy;
 “severely disadvantaged land” (“tir dan anfantais ddifrifol”) means any area of land shown coloured pink on the designated maps.
Assessment of productive capacity of land
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(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) have effect for the purpose of the assessment of the productive capacity of a unit of agricultural land situated in Wales, in order to determine whether that unit is a commercial unit of agricultural land within the meaning of paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 6 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.
(2) Where the land in question is capable, when farmed under competent management, of being used to produce any livestock, farm arable crop, outdoor horticultural crop or fruit as mentioned in any of the entries 1 to 3 in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, then—
(a) the unit of production prescribed in relation to that use of the land is the unit in the corresponding entry in column 2, and
(b) the amount determined, for the period of 12 months beginning with 12 September 2023, as the net annual income from that unit of production in that period is the amount in the corresponding entry in column 3, as read with any relevant note to that Schedule.
(3) Where land capable, when farmed under competent management, of producing a net annual income was an eligible hectare in 2022 in accordance with entry 4 in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, then—
(a) the unit of production prescribed in relation to that use of the land is the unit in the corresponding entry in column 2, and
(b) the amount determined, for the period of 12 months beginning with 12 September 2023, as the net annual income from that unit of production in that period is the amount in the corresponding entry in column 3.
Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers
8 January 2024
SCHEDULE
Prescribed units of production and determination of net annual income
Article 2


column 1Farming use column 2Unit of production column 3Net annual income from unit of production (£)
1. Livestock
Dairy cows cow 967.00
Beef breeding cows: on land in a less favoured area cow 5.00
on other land cow -28.00
Beef fattening cattle (semi-intensive) head -24.00
Dairy replacements head 154.00
Ewes: on land in a less favoured area ewe -15.00
on other land ewe 10.00
Store lambs (including ewe lambs sold as shearlings) head 12.00
Pigs: sows and gilts in pig sow or gilt 265.00
porker head 9.90
cutter head 13.00
bacon head 15.60
Poultry: laying hens bird 4.60
broilers bird 0.30
point-of-lay pullets bird 0.90
Christmas turkeys bird 14.90
2. Farm arable crops
Barley hectare 334.00
Beans hectare 181.00
Oilseed rape hectare 164.00
Dried peas hectare 200.00
Potatoes: first early hectare 2,650.00
maincrop (including seed) hectare 3,060.00
Sugar beet hectare 620.00
Wheat hectare 540.00
3. Outdoor horticultural crops and fruit
Orchard fruit hectare 4,460.00
Soft fruit hectare 17,870.00
4. Eligible hectares
Land which was, in 2022, an eligible hectare for the purposes of Regulation 1307/2013 severely disadvantaged land hectare 116.18
disadvantaged land hectare 116.07
all other land hectare 50.76
