Looking to the Future: Working to Protect and Enhance Agriculture and Indiana Communities

Indiana Farm Bureau’s mission statement is, “To protect and enhance the future of agriculture and our communities.”

The goal of this annual report is to demonstrate what INFB did last year to fulfill this mission. Listed below are some of the activities, events and initiatives that INFB, its staff and its members worked on in 2023.

Collegiate Farm Bureau/FFA

Twenty-five students representing the three active Collegiate Farm Bureau chapters at Purdue, Vincennes and Huntington universities participated in INFB’s Collegiate Discussion Meet, which was won by Jaden Maze from Purdue.

INFB also sponsored youth events that included FFA Advocacy Day and the Elite Leadership Luncheon, which recognized local FFA chapters that focus on ag literacy in their communities.

Indiana Ag Law Foundation

INAgLaw, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization established by INFB in 2005, raised more than $214,000 for the year through donations from county Farm Bureaus, family farms, individuals and agribusinesses. INAgLaw and INFB worked on two high-profile U.S. Supreme Court cases:

Sackett v. EPA, which involved clarifying which waters the federal government has jurisdiction over as Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS). The court ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had gone too far with its enforcement of the Clean Water Act. INAgLaw and INFB participated in the case by filing an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief. The challenge to California’s Proposition 12, which establishes animal welfare requirements that producers must satisfy to have their product sold in the state of California. Both INFB and INAgLaw joined other state Farm Bureaus and ag groups by filing an amicus brief in this case, but the court eventually upheld the controversial measure.

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