Ag valuation and wildlife management on Brazos County land

Texas law lets farm, ranch, and wildlife land be taxed on what it produces, not on what it would sell for. In Brazos County, where land prices have risen fast, that gap can be very large.

To apply, send Form 50-129 to Brazos CAD by April 30. Wildlife management is one path to keep an existing ag valuation. Your land must hit the minimum acreage for the Post Oak Savannah region, so ask Brazos CAD for that number. You must also do at least three of seven approved wildlife management activities. You need a written management plan and must file an annual Texas Parks and Wildlife report.

Brazos CAD checks properties to make sure they still qualify. If you change qualifying land to a non-ag use, you may owe rollback taxes. Rollback taxes go back three years. That means you pay the difference for each year you had the lower rate. Get forms and details at brazoscad.org.