You can’t get an ag exemption unless you have about 10 acres and put livestock on it-and it isn’t a big tax break unless you have a pretty good-sized operation-it wasn’t meant for those of us who are just preppers, off griders and other people who just want to be self sustaining-most of us have less than 10 acres here...
Oh, I thought it was easier than that. It was hard to find over 10 acres in Tennessee too. So many family lots have been subdivided repeatedly. We got a green belt exemption for having over 15 acres and not subdividing or building on it. Our taxes went from $1600 A year to under $1200.
BUT the nicest thing is that the ladies working in the tax assessors office are SO nice!!! We were used to the bitter mean employees of California that didn’t want anyone getting a tax break. They did usca favor by letting us pay without a penalty. The sweet Southern ladies here told us about the tax exemption, gave us the forms to apply, were overly apologetic because we missed the deadline for the year. But somehow when we got the tax bill, the exemption had been applied! I love the people here. I have to leave my house 5-10 minutes early because just waving to a neighbor isn’t enough, one must stop and chat. And I have to be patient in the grocery store, because the clerk has to find out how the lady in fronts granddaughter is doing, then the next customer’s mother, etc. My first trip to the store got me the address of a place for sale that was down the road from where the checker lived. So cute :)