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Possibilities Unbound: The Plan for 2025
Indiana Agriculture’s Strategic Plan – Action Plan Updates, August 2005

In mid-May 2005, the new Indiana State Department of Agriculture unveiled its strategic plan. In four days and 10 tour stops, ISDA reached out to nearly 950 people across the state to tell them about Possibilities Unbound: The Plan for 2025, Indiana Agriculture’s Strategic Plan.

Those we met were excited about the seven strategies we set out as our emphasis for agriculture over the next several years. Everyone seemed eager to hear how we planned to act on the strategies we selected.

Since then, ISDA has been working to flesh out those strategies and outline specific actions for accomplishing the long-term goals. There are also early accomplishments to report in each strategy. In addition, ISDA’s two divisions, the Division of Soil Conservation and the Indiana Grain Buyers and Warehouse Licensing Agency, are working on strategic plans for their areas. The documents below outline the accomplishments to date and next steps.

Please contact our office if you have any questions. We also invite you to sign up for an electronic newsletter to update you on our progress in the coming months.

ISDA Annual Report (Released April 25, 2006)

Strategic Plan Accomplishments and Action Plans (pdf)

Possibilities Unbound: The Plan for 2025
Indiana Agriculture's Strategic Plan - THE ROLLOUT

The traditional food and agriculture system has served Indiana and the nation exceedingly well in the past – the result of far-sighted planning and investment. It is now our responsibility to reappraise and reinvent that foundation to meet the needs of Indiana agriculture well into the future. That is the purpose of creating a strategic plan – the development of important strategies to help guide agriculture in this State in the new century.

Indiana agriculture is highly diverse – growing everything from mint and tomatoes to corn and soybeans, and raising ducks, chickens, pigs and cows. The State is a national leader in many of these areas due to the hard work and efforts of all Hoosier farmers.

However, the focus on agriculture has been lacking in recent years from State government. The newly created Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) brings this much-needed and expected attention. Now that the Department restructuring is complete, it is time to plan for our future. Indiana agriculture needs direction, and this strategic plan is intended to be our road map to the future.

Possibilites Unbound: The Plan for 2025 (pdf)

Indiana's Strategic Plan for Agriculture (PowerPoint Presentation)

Rollout Tour - May 2005 (Powerpoint Presentation)