Tom J Bechman ENCOURAGE INDUSTRY: The Indiana State Department of Agriculture recently launched an updated strategic plan to encourage growth of the dairy industry in Indiana. Dairy producers and group leaders hail it as another step forward. Brian Rexing of Fort Branch is proud to represent dairy farmers on the board of the co-op where he sells his milk, and to represent dairy farmers in general. “As dairy farmers, we touch consumers three times each day,” he says. “We’re there when they pour milk on their cereal in the morning, when they slap a piece of cheese on their hamburger at lunch and when they use butter on their baked potato in the evening. Sometimes, we’re there again when they eat a bowl of ice cream before going to bed at night.”