Calling all Landowners (renting farmland to a farmer) and Farmers (renting land from a landowner)!

The PA 490 program allows farm, forest and open space lands to be assessed at their current use value rather than fair market or potential highest and best use value. In order to compile these values, a large sampling of rental data on land that is being rented by farmers and used for production agriculture needs to be collected and analyzed through the PA 490 Farmland Value Survey. The rental data gathered from this Survey will be compiled and used to help calculate recommended farmland use values for PA 490 assessment purposes for the next five years.

Click here to download the Survey. Completed surveys should be mailed to Connecticut Farm Bureau Association, 775 Bloomfield Avenue, Windsor, CT 06095.

If you have any questions, please contact Joan Nichols (email) at CFBA at 860-768-1105 or Ron Olsen (email) at the CT Department of Agriculture at 860-713-2550.