One multi-state lawsuit, led by Indiana, challenged a law approved by Massachusetts voters in 2016 that requires minimum living spaces for pigs and calves and also mandates that all eggs come from cage-free hens by 2022.

Four years ago, Indiana farms made a total of about $3 billion. The past three years though, that average has dropped by more than half.

The Farm Service Agency is the office that processes payments. Local offices are closing Friday because of the partial government shutdown.

The 2018 Farm Bill President Donald Trump signed on Thursday keeps many conservation programs intact and increases funding available for farm conservation in the Great Lakes region.

While the organization's headquarters are in Indy, there were concerns its biggest event of the year might outgrow the city.

Previous attempts to legalize the plant have failed in the Senate because some lawmakers thought it was tantamount to condoning marijuana, which is still illegal nationally.

So far only one genetically modified animal, a type of salmon, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Indiana has about 65,000 jobs in the ag bioscience sector - a field worth about $16 billion annually to the state's economy.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently re-approved its use for dicamba resistant soybean and cotton crops. Last year, a coalition of farmers and environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the EPA for approving the weedkiller.

Last month, President Donald Trump announced the new USMCA trade deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.