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Monitoring Indiana’s biggest state issues in 2025

Pictured: Katrina Hall, Indiana Farm Bureau with Brownfield’s Erin Anderson

Water protections and taxes are two top legislative priorities for Indiana Farm Bureau members in 2025.

Caitlin Smith is the associate director of policy engagement.

“We want additional funding for groundwater well monitoring,” she says. “You can’t really regulate a resource if you don’t know where it is and how much of it we have, so we need a better idea of exactly the ebbs and flows, the demand supply, how that all works underground.”

Senior director of policy strategy and advocacy Katrina Hall says she’s confident property tax adjustments will be made.

“We have been a supporter of local option income tax as an alternative source of revenue to property taxes for really decades since they came on the books back in the 70s,” she says. “I feel like we’re positioned pretty well.”

Smith says INFB will continue to monitor the issues and keep members updated throughout next year’s legislative session.

Brownfield interviewed Smith and Hall during the 2024 Indiana Farm Bureau Annual Meeting.