Answers to Commonly Asked Questions on Agricultural Use
Per K.S.A. 79-201d newly built, constructed, or assembled structures used for:
- All hay and silage. The term "hay" shall include alfalfa, brome, clover, and prairie hays and all other grasses and plants which are harvested for forage. The term "silage" shall include corn, milo, sorghum and all other plants, cut, compressed and preserved by its own fermentation for fodder.
- All farm storage and drying equipment meeting eligibility requirements, as provided in Title 7, Chapter XIV, Subchapter B, Part 1474 of the Code of Federal Regulations and as in effect on December 31, 1977, for loans under the federal farm storage and drying equipment loan program, whether financed or not, and all used farm storage and drying equipment meeting such eligibility requirements but for the fact that the same was not purchased from the commodity credit corporation, which equipment is used for the storage or drying of haylage, silage, corn, oats, barley, grain sorghum, wheat, rye, soybeans, flaxseed, rice, dry edible beans or sunflower seed, for any eight of the 10 calendar years next following the calendar year in which such equipment is acquired or construction thereof is completed.
- All farm storage structures designed and predominantly used for the storage of hay, for any eight of the 10 calendar years next following the calendar year in which such farm storage structure was newly constructed or first assembled. The exemption provided for in this paragraph shall be limited to a total of eight years for each individual farm storage structure.
This exemption is good for eight (8) years of the first ten (10) after construction or assembled. After the exemption period the structures would be taxable at market value.
A person wishing to apply for this exemption should call the Exemptions Division of the Appraiser's Office at (316) 660-9261 and request an exemption application.
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