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March 4 marked the first renewable energy regional workshop and bus tour hosted by the Center for Energy Education, Purdue Extension community development and CN Consulting.
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Purdue University’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture will offer a one-day workshop about hydroponic crop production July 12 for home and commercial growers.
Sometimes taxes cost more to collect than the revenue they generate. Back in 2015, the Indiana General Assembly recognized one example. Back then, all businesses were required to file forms establishing the value of personal property for property tax payments. Personal property is mostly business equipment, from office furniture to the turbines in electrical power plants. Back then, almost 300,000 Indiana businesses filed forms.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Indiana Sheep and Wool Market Development Program (Indiana S&W) is seeking candidates for two district seats in 2025. The checkoff board, which is composed of representatives from nine county-determined districts, will hold elections for seats in districts 1 and 4 in 2025.
The Purdue Small Farm Education Field Day on July 24 will offer demonstrations and presentations to support small-scale farming. The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture will co-host the event with the Purdue Student Farm. Attendees will learn from Purdue University and Purdue Extension experts about small-scale farming hacks, container farming (hydroponics), raised garden beds for vegetables, sweet pepper production, food safety in packinghouses and pest monitoring with pheromone traps. Equipment demonstrations will also be a part of the event.
The governor signed Senate Bill 1 into law on April 15, 2025. This is the bill that was introduced with the governor’s big tax cuts for homeowners, which would have caused large revenue losses for local governments. The Senate amended the bill to make the cuts much smaller and spread them to all taxpayers, with much smaller local revenue losses. Then the House amended the Senate bill with a one of its own, with bigger tax cuts than the Senate version, but not as much as the governor wanted, and local revenue losses somewhere in the middle. That’s the bill that became law.
Purdue Extension is hosting the MarketReady training from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET May 1 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As Indiana’s local food producers look to expand into new marketing channels, this program provides the tools and resources necessary to thrive in today’s marketplace.
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