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Farmland Assessment
New Jersey's Farmland Assessment Act, administered by the New Jersey Department of Treasury, provides for lower assessment based on productivity of farmland if it meets specific eligibility criteria. To qualify for the tax assessment reduction, a landowner must have no less than five acres of farmland actively devoted to an agricultural or horticultural use for the two years immediately preceding the tax year being applied for and meet specific minimum gross income requirements based on the productivity of the land.
Farmland Assessment Overview (3,964K PDF)
Overview: What is Farmland Assessment? Minimum Eligibility Requirements, Additional Land Requirements, Definitions, Example Scenarios.
Soil Evaluation Mapping Tool
The Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources partnered with the Rutgers's Center for Urban Policy Research to provide an open access tool that allows users in the agricultural community to access, view, and print soils reports by tax parcel. The tool incorporates a number of components that benefit the farmland assessment process. This tool gives property owners the power to identify land use related to farmland assessment; cropland harvested, cropland pastured, permanent pasture, non-appurtenant woodland, appurtenant woodland, or not assessed as farmland (land under and used in connection to the farmhouse).
Click here to use the mapping tool.
If you need further assistance with the Mapping Tool, you may contact Sara Mellor at the NJDA at sara.mellor@ag.nj.gov, or 609.913.6621.
Questions concerning Farmland Assessment specifics may be directed to your municipal assessor.
State Farmland Evaluation Committee (FEC)
The FEC reviews Farmland Assessment reports and sets annual tax rates.
Additional information on farmland productivity values, such as imputed income values from grazing, can also be found in the State Farmland Evaluation Committee's annual land productivity values report.
2026 Productivity Values Report
Farmland Evaluation Committee Meeting Notice for August 13, 2025 meeting
2025 Farmland Evaluation Committee Meeting Agenda
Next FEC meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
For Farmland Assessment questions, call (609) 913-6621
Farmland Assessment Tax Assessor Training
Farmland Assessment Tax Assessor Training was held at the Division of Taxation on Wednesday, 10/30/2024. Please find links to the presentations below.
Ag Farmland Assessment Presentation 2024
Forestry Farmland Assessment Presentation 2024
Taxation Farmland Assessment Presentation 2024