Post by stumpy on Jun 21, 2014 9:30:21 GMT -6
I had just finished a session with the CAD appeals tribunal. Five volunteer citizens of little if any farm property appraisal experience pronounced that the CAD did place a fair AG value and market value on my west Wharton Co. farm. The fact that they increased the AG value by 44% and the market value by 25% didn't seem to phase their view of fairness. In fact I was given a lesson in socialism for our future.
I was told that I should be 'share cropping' my farm and not cash leasing. I was told that my lease should have been for another $10.00 per acre that what I was receiving. Never mind that my farmers had worked my land for more than 20 years and deserved some benefit for always leaving the land in good shape and the turning rows clean and ready for the winter and next season. Farmers will understand what I have said. They also told me that evidently my farmers didn't produce a quality crop. They didn't consider drought and some flooding ( not the same year). They said that all dry row crop farms (size wise) in Wharton county should be the same value regardless of the quality of the land itself.
Folks - I was impressed by the quanity of documentation used by the CAD to validate their position. I was given some 20+ pages of graphs and maps that was used to fight my protest. The budget for the CAD must be extravagant to say the least. But their statements that all similar property as mine in Wharton County should be valued the same. That reeks of socialism.
I was told that I should be 'share cropping' my farm and not cash leasing. I was told that my lease should have been for another $10.00 per acre that what I was receiving. Never mind that my farmers had worked my land for more than 20 years and deserved some benefit for always leaving the land in good shape and the turning rows clean and ready for the winter and next season. Farmers will understand what I have said. They also told me that evidently my farmers didn't produce a quality crop. They didn't consider drought and some flooding ( not the same year). They said that all dry row crop farms (size wise) in Wharton county should be the same value regardless of the quality of the land itself.
Folks - I was impressed by the quanity of documentation used by the CAD to validate their position. I was given some 20+ pages of graphs and maps that was used to fight my protest. The budget for the CAD must be extravagant to say the least. But their statements that all similar property as mine in Wharton County should be valued the same. That reeks of socialism.