Ag Valuation Can Sharply Cut Taxes on Rural Land in Medina County

Texas can appraise farm, ranch, timber, and wildlife land by what it can produce instead of what it might sell for. The Comptroller calls that productivity value.

Medina CAD posts the local ag application and guidelines on its Agriculture Info page. It also posts separate beekeeping and wildlife-management materials, including South Texas Plains intensity guidelines.

The state test is not casual. Land usually must be mainly in ag or timber use for five of the past seven years. If the land later changes to a non-ag use, a rollback tax may apply.