The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1987

Made13th August 1987

Laid before Parliament21st August 1987

Coming into force12th September 1987

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England and the Secretary of State in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 19861, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 12th September 1987.

2

Any reference in this Order to “the Schedule” shall be construed as a reference to the Schedule to this Order.

Prescribed units of production2

There is hereby prescribed in relation to each agricultural enterprise relating to agricultural land specified in column 1 of the Schedule the unit of production specified opposite that enterprise in column 2 of the Schedule, being a unit designed for the assessment of the productive capacity of such land.

Amount of net annual income from prescribed units of production3

In relation to any unit of production prescribed in this Order the amount which is to be regarded for the purposes of paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (definition of “commercial unit of agricultural land”) as the net annual income from that unit for the period 12th September 1987 to 11th September 1988 inclusive shall be the sum specified opposite that unit of production in column 3 of the Schedule.

Revocation4

The Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 19862 is hereby revoked.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 13th August 1987.

John MacGregorMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and FoodWyn RobertsMinister of State, Welsh Office8th August 1987

SCHEDULEPRESCRIBED UNITS OF PRODUCTION AND DETERMINATION OF ANNUAL INCOME

Articles 1(2), 2 and 3

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Enterprise	Unit of Production	Net annual income from unit of production
		£
1. Livestock
Dairy cows:
Channel Islands breeds	cow	145
Other breeds	cow	175
Beef breeding cows:
On eligible land under the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 19843 which is severely disadvantaged land or disadvantaged land	cow	62
On other land	cow	48
Beef fattening cattle (intensive)	average head 4	37
Dairy replacements	average head 4	53
Other cattle	average head 4	37
Calves fattened for veal	head	19
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	9
Store lambs (including ewe lambs sold as shearlings)	head	2
Goats (Dairy)	goat	63
Pigs:
Sows and gilts in pig	sow or gilt	75
Porker	head	4
Cutter	head	5
Bacon	head	6
Poultry:
Laying hens	hen	1.35
Broilers	chick purchased	0.16
Capons	chick purchased	0.75
Point-of-lay pullets	chick purchased	0.26
Turkeys	chick purchased	1
Ducks	chick purchased	0.48
Rabbits	doe	12
2. Farm arable crops
Barley	hectare	120
Beans or peas — stockfeed	hectare	125
Herbage seed	hectare	125
Linseed	hectare	98
Mixed corn	hectare	100
Oats	hectare	110
Oilseed rape	hectare	180
Other oilseeds	hectare	100
Peas:
Dried	hectare	140
Vining	hectare	165
Potatoes:
First early	hectare	570
Maincrop (including seed)	hectare	620
Rye	hectare	110
Sugar Beet	hectare	230
Wheat	hectare	150
Other arable crops	hectare	250
3. Outdoor horticultural crops
Asparagus	hectare	1110
Beans:
Broad	hectare	500
French	hectare	280
Runner	hectare	1880
Beetroot	hectare	820
Brussels sprouts	hectare	830
Cabbage, Savoys and sprouting broccoli	hectare	810
Carrots	hectare	910
Cauliflower and winter broccoli	hectare	930
Celery	hectare	3250
Leeks	hectare	1970
Lettuce	hectare	1750
Nursery stock:
Container grown	1000 square metres	2185
Field grown	hectare	2850
Onions:
Dry bulb	hectare	900
Salad	hectare	2590
Outdoor bulbs	hectare	1090
Parsnips	hectare	890
Rhubarb — natural	hectare	2180
Turnips and swedes	hectare	390
Watercress	1000 square metres	1610
Other outdoor horticultural crops	1000 square metres	150
4. Protected crops
Single crop cycle:
Heated ornamentals	1000 square metres	4520
Fully heated vegetable (approximately 22°C lift in temperature)	1000 square metres	3140
Forced narcissus	1000 square metres	2070
Forced tulips	1000 square metres	3340
Mushrooms	1000 square metres	4410
Other single crops	1000 square metres	2940
Crop sequences:
Heated (approximately 18°C lift in temperature)	1000 square metres	2230
Heat assisted (approximately 8°C lift in temperature)	1000 square metres	1700
Unheated	1000 square metres	1260
5. Orchard fruit
Apples:
Cider	hectare	250
Cooking	hectare	670
Dessert	hectare	750
Cherries	hectare	630
Pears	hectare	720
Plums	hectare	440
Other orchard fruit	hectare	640
6. Soft fruit
Blackcurrants	hectare	570
Gooseberries	hectare	750
Raspberries	hectare	1760
Strawberries	hectare	2160
Other soft fruit	hectare	1450
7. Miscellaneous
Bees	colony	16
Deer	breeding hind	20
Hops	hectare	1000
Trout — for table	tonne sold	310
Vines	hectare	360

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes units of production for various enterprises relating to agricultural land and sets out the amount which is to be regarded as the net annual income from each such unit for the year 12th September 1987 to 11th September 1988 inclusive. (These units of production, so far as relevant to the assessment of the productive capacity of a unit of agricultural land, are to be used, in conjunction with the net annual income ascribed to those units of production, in calculating the net annual income of the unit of land when assessing whether that unit of land is a commercial unit of agricultural land for the purposes of the succession provisions in Part IV of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986. A commercial unit of agricultural land is defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 to that Act by reference to the production of a net annual income from the unit of not less than the average annual earnings of two full-time, male agricultural workers aged 20 or over. Figures are published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as representing the average annual earnings for one such worker.)

The Order revokes and replaces the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) Order 1986.