As hmdagal stated, this exemption is only for purchases. But more, the amount of acres isn't really a factor. I grew on a 10 acre hog farm. It was absolutely a farm, but not 25 acres or more. Where I now live, there is a 40 acre piece of land owned by a man from Minneapolis. He hunts deer, ducks, etc., but doesn't farm it. It's really his cabin and hunting land. Just because it's more then 25 acres doesn't make it a farm.