01/17/2026
You could walk right past someone and never know they’re responsible for hundreds of acres of farmland that supply food to your entire community.
These are people who work from sunup to sundown, go to bed exhausted, and do it all over again the next day. So how did we get to a place where we are actively pushing those people out?
Land classified as pasture F under PA 490 is non-tillable, non-seedable land. It is rocky, often interwoven with ledge and wetlands, and it produces the least of any agricultural land category. Nothing about this land changed. Its productivity did not change. Its limitations did not change.
What did change was how it was valued on paper.
Pasture F was valued at $280 per acre before the reassessment. After the 2025 reassessment, pasture F was valued at $1,570 per acre. After the state’s so-called fix, pasture F was reduced to $815 per acre.
Calling that a fix is unacceptable.
This is not stewardship. This is displacement by paperwork. Artificially inflating land values to justify higher taxes on land that cannot produce more is how farms fail, slowly, quietly, and permanently.
Governor Ned Lamont, this does not get worked out over time. Farmers do not have five years. Many do not even have one. The only acceptable solution is a full reversal to the pre-reassessment pasture valuation and a transparent, farmer informed process moving forward.
I highly encourage everyone that follows me to join the CT PA 490 Farming Community page run by actual CT farmers being impacted by this terrible legislation: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17uxgB97bc/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Also please sign our petition demanding a full reversal, put pasture F back to $280 TODAY:
Disclaimer This petition is submitted by Fields of Support Foundation , a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) charitable organization formed during the response to the Hurricane Helene disaster in North Carolina....
