INDIANAPOLIS–The Indiana State Department of Agriculture found that between 2010 and 2022 the state had lost 2%, or 345,682 acres, of available farmland. They cite residential home building as the primary factor leading to this loss of land. This study was conducted in accordance with a law passed in 2023 to determine land changes in Indiana. Information gathered in the study could be used to impact future legislation and its impact on both residential growth and agricultural land. Another lost farmland inventory will be taken in 2029.
State’s Department of Agriculture Says Indiana is Losing Farmland
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Some of them most productive farmland between Elkhart and Mishawaka along the Toll Road has been covered over with solar panels. How dumb. Last I knew, you cannot eat a solar panel. I & M brags. I say let them be last in the food line when that comes, and it will come.