Indiana continues to develop and grow its hardwood industry, a sector of the state’s agriculture industry that contributes more than $10 billion to the economy.
Bruce Kettler is the director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture.
“It’s a major economic driver,” he says. “It’s also all over Indiana— It’s not just in our population centers, it’s in places like Jasper, Salem, and these other towns that we’ve been in (on a recent tour) so it offers a lot of job opportunities close to home.”
He tells Brownfield the industry is also very diverse.
