Section 56064 Of Chapter 2. Definitions From California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2.
56064
. "Prime agricultural land" means an area of land, whether a
single parcel or contiguous parcels, that has not been developed for
a use other than an agricultural use and that meets any of the
following qualifications:
(a) Land that qualifies, if irrigated, for rating as class I or
class II in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service land use
capability classification, whether or not land is actually irrigated,
provided that irrigation is feasible.
(b) Land that qualifies for rating 80 through 100 Storie Index
Rating.
(c) Land that supports livestock used for the production of food
and fiber and that has an annual carrying capacity equivalent to at
least one animal unit per acre as defined by the United States
Department of Agriculture in the National Range and Pasture Handbook,
Revision 1, December 2003.
(d) Land planted with fruit or nut-bearing trees, vines, bushes,
or crops that have a nonbearing period of less than five years and
that will return during the commercial bearing period on an annual
basis from the production of unprocessed agricultural plant
production not less than four hundred dollars ($400) per acre.
(e) Land that has returned from the production of unprocessed
agricultural plant products an annual gross value of not less than
four hundred dollars ($400) per acre for three of the previous five
calendar years.