# The Smallholdings (Full-Time Employment) Regulations 1970, Paragraph 6


Calves less than seven days old, unweaned piglets, and unweaned lambs shall not be included in the estimate.
TABLE
CROPS
Standard man-days
(per acre)
Wheat
2
Barley
2
Oats
3
Mixed corn
3
Rye—for threshing
2·5
Potatoes—first early
15
—main crop and second early
15
Beans for stockfeeding
3
Turnips, swedes and fodder beet for stockfeeding
9
Mangolds
11
Rape or cole for stockfeeding
1
Kale for stockfeeding
1·5
Cabbage, savoys and kohlrabi for stockfeeding
5
Mustard for seed, fodder or ploughing-in
3
Other crops for stockfeeding (inc. vetches and tares but not lucerne and grasses)
3
Sugar beet
10
Hops
70
Orchards grown commercially
23
Orchards not grown commercially
1
Small fruit:
Strawberries
70
Raspberries
80
Currants, black
40
Gooseberries
40
Other small fruit
60
All brassicas
20
Carrots, earlies
60
Carrots, main crop
10
Parsnips
25
Turnips and swedes
20
Beetroot (red beet)
30
Onions, salad
100
Onions, harvesting dry
25
Beans, broad
30
Beans, runner: bush
30
climbing
80
Beans, french
25
Peas, green for market
30
Peas, all others for processing
3
Celery
40
Lettuce, not under glass
30
Other vegetables and mixed areas
50
Hardy nursery stock
50
Bulbs
100
Other flowers not under glass
250
Crops under glass or sheds
1,300
Other crops not for feeding to farm livestock
3
Bare fallow
0·5
Lucerne
1·25
Clover, sainfoin and temporary grasses
0·75
Permanent grass
0·5
LIVESTOCK
Standard man-days
(per head per annum)
Dairy cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk
10
Dairy heifers in calf
3·5
Beef cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk
3
Bulls being used for service
6
All other cattle
2·5
Ewes
0·7
Rams
0·7
Wethers and other sheep 1 year old and over
0·2
Breeding sows and gilts
4
Boars
4
Other pigs over 2 months old
1
Poultry—Hens and pullets (other than growing pullets), geese and turkeys
0·1
—Fowls for breeding
0·15
—Ducks
0·2
—Broilers, growing pullets and other table fowl
0·05

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1050/schedule/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/smallholdings-full-time-employment-regulations-1970/schedule/paragraph-6
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