Farmers participate in policy development process

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Farm Bureau hosted nine policy advisory groups in June in which farmers worked through county policy suggestions.

Topics included diversified agriculture, energy, environment and natural resources, land use and property rights, production agriculture, rural communities, tax and government structure, transportation and infrastructure, and broadband.

Farm Bureau’s policy development process begins at the local level. The process is lengthy and inclusive to ensure that farmer members in every corner of the state can submit the priorities that are important to them.

All 92 counties have the opportunity to make policy suggestions or edits to INFB’s policy book.

Those suggestions are debated by a policy advisory group and then a resolutions committee before being brought to the full delegate session in August.