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New online portal for Indiana farmers

New online portal for Indiana farmers
Apr 14, 2025
By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content, Farms.com

The online resource helps producers communicate with government

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun’s first bill signed into law supports farmers in the state.

House Bill 1149 requires the Indiana State Department of Agriculture to establish and maintain an online portal on its website.

The portal is designed to help farmers communicate with government and cut red tape.

It’ll have information related to funding, grant eligibility and deadlines, and tools for tracking lost farmland.

Overall, this tool provides growers with the information they need right at their fingertips.

“Hoosier farmers feed America and power our economy, and this bill makes their important job a little bit easier,” Braun told reporters while signing the bill, the Indiana Capital Chronicle reported.

This online resource fulfills one of Braun’s campaign promises.

His campaign included a Freedom and Opportunity Agenda to support farmers and rural residents.

The other pieces of that plan include protecting farmland and building out reliable connectivity.

Representation from a farm group helped create the bill.

Kendell Culp, a State Rep. and vice president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, wrote the legislation.

“If farmers can come together and take advantage of those things, I think it helps them advance their operation,” he said, WRTV reported.


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