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Farmland rating category
The farmland rate is for land used for a genuine farming business. Land changes use. Blocks are subdivided. The category often stays. Reviews are slow: forms, maps and site visits, one property at a time.
In NSW and Victoria rates are capped, so a recategorisation mostly makes the burden fairer rather than raising revenue. Elsewhere it is revenue.
What it finds
- Properties the land use maps show as houses, rural residential blocks or businesses, with the year they were mapped
- Small holdings where a commercial farming business is unlikely
- Properties whose farming business on file has a cancelled ABN or no GST registration
- The zone, where it points the same way. Zoning alone never raises a finding: the category follows how the land is used
What you send
The list of farmland-rated assessments: assessment number and address. ABN and land area help if you hold them. A spreadsheet or CSV export is fine. You check the columns before anything runs.
What a finding looks like
All of this register in the sample reportFrom the sample report. Demo Shire and its businesses are fictional.
Assessment A1003: farmland rating worth a check2 sources, newest 12 days oldWorth a re-checkNew82% Strong
5 Creek Lane Wattle Creek 2991. zoned R5 LARGE LOT RESIDENTIAL (residential), per the NSW Planning Portal; 3.2 ha; the ABN on file was cancelled on 2022-05-31. In NSW the category follows the dominant use of the land, not its zoning (Local Government Act 1993 s 515).
Evidence
NSW Planning Portal land zoning · 1 July 2026
The property's location falls in zone R5 (Large Lot Residential) under the Demo Shire Local Environmental Plan (fictional). Placed from your register's address.
Australian Business Register · 16 Sept 2026
ABN 00100000005 (Creek Lane Holdings Pty Ltd): cancelled since 2022-05-31; GST not registered.
Why this confidence
- Zoned R5 LARGE LOT RESIDENTIAL (residential), per the NSW Planning Portal
- 3.2 ha
- The ABN on file was cancelled on 2022-05-31