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Committee advances bill to create agricultural online portal and regular inventory of lost farmland
Summary
The Senate Agriculture Committee moved House Bill 1149 forward after testimony that the measure would centralize state and federal farm resources and require a five‑year update of an inventory tracking farmland lost to nonagricultural uses.
House Bill 1149 would direct the Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) to create an online portal that centralizes links and guidance from state and federal agencies for farmers and prospective farmers, and would require ISDA to update an inventory of "lost farmland" every five years.
Supporters said the portal is intended as a one‑stop resource to make it easier for rural farmers and small operators to find funding, permitting and regulatory information. Representative Dan Culp, the bill author, told the committee the portal would be "similar to the federal site which is www.farmers.gov" and said ISDA would host the portal.
The bill also would codify a recurring inventory of acreage converted from agricultural uses to other uses. Representative Culp and ISDA staff pointed to the department's earlier inventory, which reported a net loss of about…
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