Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center
Size and Topography
- The second-largest PAC, with 1,320 acres in Dubois County near the Patoka Reservoir
- Rolling ground (hilly), shallow soils, natural hard pan, not well drained, rocky outcroppings
- Difficult-to-manage sandstone and shale soils typical of southern Indiana
- Roughly 570 acres of open pastureland
Heritage
SIPAC grew from a true grassroots effort by the people of southern Indiana in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Local farmers felt their environment and soil differed so greatly from farmland near West Lafayette that their counties’ leadership raised funds to purchase the original parcel of farmland as well as some additional acreage. They donated the land, which was roughly half wooded and half pasture, to Purdue University as the Southern Indiana Forage Farm. The facility became SIPAC in 1965.
Contact Information
Jason Tower
Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center
11371 East Purdue Farm Road
Dubois, IN 47527
Phone: 812-678-4427
Fax: 812-678-3412