A key lawmaker called the bill a response to ongoing resistance of local governments to greenlight solar, wind and other renewables projects that are necessary to support the state’s growing energy demands.
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The lieutenant governor is the second highest office holder in state government and has several duties that include serving as the president of the Indiana Senate and overseeing two dozen departments.
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The 300,000-square-foot facility will receive and distribute primarily corn and soybean seeds that will eventually end up on Indiana and Ohio farms.
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More than 80 farms in the U.S. and Canada, including three in Indiana, have teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create “Peanuts”-themed mazes to celebrate the beloved strip’s 75th birthday this summer and fall.
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Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, has continued to dispute claims that Roundup causes cancer. But the company has been hit with more than 177,000 lawsuits involving the weedkiller and set aside $16 billion to settle cases.
The Chinese tariffs, announced last week, were a response to Trump’s decision to double the levy on Chinese imports to 20% on March 4.
Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliatory action from those countries to hurt their bottom lines if they stay in place a while.
The tariffs will apply to imports of key U.S. farm products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef.
With an emphasis on farms tightening their measures to prevent bird flu’s spread, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the USDA will invest another $1 billion on top of the roughly $2 billion it has already spent since the outbreak began in 2022.
Fishers and the Indianapolis Zoo will partner on some aspects of the new AgriPark, which received a key approval in the development process on Tuesday.
The spike in egg prices was the biggest since the nation’s last bird flu outbreak in 2015 and accounted for roughly two-thirds of the total increase in food costs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Hoosier farmers are on edge as the bird flu—officially the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI—continues to menace big and small flocks alike three years into this outbreak.
Indiana farming groups argued that additional oversight requirements will come at a cost to producers.
The recall was issued after the salmonella outbreak sickened at least 68 people, including 18 who required hospitalization across multiple states. Indiana is among the states affected by the recall.
The Lake States Dairy Center—a nonprofit educational affiliate of Fair Oaks Farms—will receive the contribution from seven financial institutions, the organizations announced Tuesday.
The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows might be spreading to people.
Automation could ease the sector’s deepening labor shortage, help farmers manage costs, protect workers from extreme heat and improve yields.
Stephen Meyers says consumers in Indiana and across the country can expect an above-average pumpkin crop, both in terms of yield and quality.
The state’s largest agricultural lobbyist group announced its legislative priorities Thursday morning.
Corteva, the Indianapolis-based seed and crop protection giant, formed a joint venture with the startup, Pairwise, based in Durham, North Carolina, aimed at increasing crop yield for food, fuel and fiber production.
Sen. Mike Braun, the Republican candidate for governor, partnered with conservative public policy group Hoosiers for Opportunity, Prosperity & Enterprise Inc., or HOPE, to develop his agenda.
The legislation would add the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which can recommend that the president block or suspend any transactions with a worrisome impact on national security.
Farmers are also planting more acres of corn, in part to meet demand for ethanol, which means more plants working harder to stay cool — pumping out humidity that adds to steamy misery like that blanketing much of the U.S. this week.
According to Perdue and the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the recall covers select lots of three products sold nationwide.
