Three bills have been filed to be considered during next month’s South Dakota Legislative session dealing with ag land assessments.  South Dakota Stock Grower’s Executive Director Silvia Christen says lawmakers are looking at tweaking the law.  Part of the discussion will center around actual use of ag land and how it should be assessed for taxes.

She says one of the measures her group is backing would assess land differently depending on whether its crop land or non-cropland.

Christen says the ag land and non ag land debate has been talked about in the past and that discussion will continue in the upcoming session.

She says some adjustments may need to be made to that measure. South Dakota lawmakers begin their 2016 session January 12.