Posted by showcrop on April 22, 2015 at 05:39:00 from (66.31.196.130):
I commended our town clerk for taking a stand on tractor registrations. State law says that Farm tractors and farm tractors only can get the substantially reduced rate for a tractor registration. There are only about fifteen of us in town who do any thing that can really be called farming in my opinion, and only one who actually makes his living primarily from farming. Probably half the homeowners in town have compact diesel tractors to play with, and many horse owners have one for manure handling, but I don't see a two horse stable as a farm. pretty much all of these tractors from what I see have industrial type tires on them. She has been taking a lot of heat from these people that think that they should get the much lower rate. probably many of them see them selves as farming because they use a tractor to till their 1,000 square foot garden. Some have even gone to the board of selectmen to complain about her. To me farming is clearly producing crop or animals for human or animal consumption, and offering same for sale, and none of these people are doing that. I suggested that she ask them to show proof that a tractor is primarily for farming by bringing it up and showing her their R-1 tires. If someone is willing to take their industrial tires off and replace them with R-1s let them have the reg at the discounted rate. Any ideas that I can offer her to help her show people that they don't qualify as farmers?...... I expect that a lot of these $200,000 a year yuppies moved here from the Boston suburbs mainly so that they could think of themselves as farmers.
This post was edited by showcrop at 05:40:15 04/22/15.
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