Which is literally why you have to farm the land. The agricultural rate can be substantially lower than the residential rate. I don’t know about MA, but in NY

Which is literally why you have to farm the land. The agricultural rate can be substantially lower than the residential rate. I don’t know about MA, but in NY for 7 acres or more you just need to average $10,000 in sales for 2 years. Interestingly if you have les than 7 acres the threshold goes up, but you can lease land to bring yourself over the 7 acres. Additionally, since property tax rates are set at the local municipality level an ag assessment uses state law to cap what the municipality can claim. This is not tax advice, and I don’t know the law in MA, but probably not to far from NY’s.