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As with every county you will want to call and check to verify what you are looking at online is, indeed what the actual requirements are per the appraisal district's mouth. The appraisal district may change chief appraiser like what recently happened in Waller County a few years back, and the rules for qualifying for an Ag Exemption may change year-to-year and especially vary county-to-county. Most appraisal districts will ask that you apply for your Ag-Exemption the year you start keeping bees, knowing it takes 5 years to obtain the exemption. The districts may as you to apply for the exemption in order to "get denied" but during that process the county obtains official records from you the landowner and inputs these documents into their system. This is key, should requirements for the Ag-Exemption change during the 5 year period or the district gets a new chief appraiser who interprets the rules differently than the previous chief appraiser and make changes to degree of intensity requirement. The degree of intensity is applied to all agriculture exemptions, this number determined by the appraisal district, states how many cows you need in a pasture, how much cotton planted in a field, and how many bee hives needed to qualify for the exemption. Please follow the link below for the degree of intensity. Fort Bend CAD Degree of Intensity Requirements UPDATED for 2025 Degree of Intensity: Minimum 5 acres and 6 hives, Maximum 20 acres and a mimimum of 12 hives, Each additional 2.5 acres after 5 is 1 additional hive. For the full details please follow the link or download the document below. https://www.fbcad.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AG-Guidelines.Only_.2022.Revised.pdf

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Most individuals will file a 1-d-1 Ag Exemption with their county upon purchasing the property or upon the chief appraiser's written request. The 1-d Ag Exemption is the original ag exemption that gave farmers a break on their property taxes that uses your farm income to determine the value of the property when agriculture is the property owner's primary occupation and source of income. The 1-d Ag Exemption should only be used under certain circumstances, does not have a minimum size requirement for the parcel of land, and takes 3 years to establish the history instead of the (5) you hear from most CADS. Most individuals will not qualify for the 1-d Ag application and must use the 1-d-1 Ag Exemption. THE FULL MANUAL FOR APPRAISAL OF AGRICULTURAL LAND CAN BE FOUND BELOW. There are a few more details and things your can learn more about here: https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/docs/96-300.pdf