Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center (SIPAC)

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 530 acres of open pastureland and 630 acres of managed woodlands

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.​

Jon Leuck
Director, Purdue Agricultural Centers and Project Coordinator
615 Mitch Daniels Blvd
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2053
Phone: (765) 494-8368
Email: leuckj@purdue.edu

Alex Helms
Assistant Director, Purdue Agricultural Centers 
615 Mitch Daniels Blvd
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2053
Phone: (765) 494-8367
Email: helms0@purdue.edu

Jason Tower
Superintendent, Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center
11371 East Purdue Farm Road
Dubois, IN 47527
Phone: (812) 678-4427
Email: towerj@purdue.edu

Grant N. Burcham, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP
Veterinary Diagnostician, College of Veterinary Medicine
(812) 678-3401
​​gburcham@purdue.edu

Ron Rathfon
Extension Forester, FNR
(812) 678-5049
ronr@purdue.edu