1. “Agricultural use” means the current employment of real property as a business venture for profit, which business produced a minimum gross income of $5,000 from agricultural pursuits during the immediately preceding calendar year by:

(a) Raising, harvesting and selling crops, fruit, flowers, timber and other products of the soil;

(b) Feeding, breeding, management and sale of livestock, poultry, or the produce thereof, if the real property used therefor is owned or leased by the operator and is of sufficient size and capacity to produce more than one-half of the feed required during that year for the agricultural pursuit;

(c) Operating a feed lot consisting of at least 50 head of cattle or an equivalent number of animal units of sheep or hogs, for the production of food;

(d) Raising furbearing animals or bees;

(e) Dairying and the sale of dairy products; or

(f) Any other use determined by the Department to constitute agricultural use if such use is verified by the Department.

The term includes every process and step necessary and incident to the preparation and storage of the products raised on such property for human or animal consumption or for marketing except actual market locations.

2. As used in this section, “current employment” of real property in agricultural use includes:

(a) Land lying fallow for 1 year as a normal and regular requirement of good agricultural husbandry;

(b) Land planted in orchards or other perennials prior to maturity; and

(c) Land leased or otherwise made available for use by an agricultural association formed pursuant to chapter 547 of NRS.

(Added to NRS by 1975, 1755; A 1991, 531; 1997, 1265)