SOUTHERN INDIANA PURDUE AGRICULTURAL CENTER

RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS 2024 

Jason Tower, Superintendent
11371 East Purdue Farm Road
Dubois, IN 47527
812-678-3401
towerj@purdue.edu
https://ag.purdue.edu/arp/pac/Pages/sipac-home.aspx

Department of Agronomy

 Establishment and Evaluation of water tolerant forage species for flood prone pastures

To look at alternative forges to reeds canary grass for flood prone pastures
Contact: Keith Johnson, Agronomy Department, Purdue
 
Purdue Automated Weather Station
Purpose: to collect weather data that can be accessed real time via the internet. Contact: Beth Hall – Purdue
 
Monitoring Three Grazing Systems Utilizing Different Forage Base Under Similar Management and Stocking Rates
Contacts: Keith Johnson, Jason Tower and Nick Minton, Purdue University Patrick Keyser, University of Tennessee
 

Department of Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory

Establishment of a Weeds Toxic to Livestock Garden
Contact Dr. Grant Burcham, Purdue University ADDL, Dr. Keith Johnson, Purdue University, Molley Hasenour, Purdue Extension
 

Department of Animal Science

Evaluation of Hair Sheep Production in Southern Indiana
Contact: Mike Neary, Department of Animal Sciences-Purdue
 
Evaluation of Meat Goat Production in Southern Indiana
Contact: Mike Neary, Department of Animal Sciences-Purdue
 
Demonstration of Establishment of Annual Forages in to Fescue Pastures
Contact Jason Tower - Purdue University
 
Demonstration of Grain Sorghum for Winter Grazing
Seed provided by Mike Laird - Winfield
Contact Jason Tower, Purdue University
 
 Sheep GEMS’ Project (Genetics, Environment, Management and Society)
Contact: Luiz Brito, Purdue University, Ron Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 

Department of Entomology

 Evaluating the efficacy of different fly tags in beef cattle for Face and Horn fly control
Contact: Ralph Williams, Entomology-Purdue University
 
Surveying Armyworm Populations
To monitor collection of specific pests for southern Indiana Contacts: John Obermeyer, Entomology-Purdue University
 
 

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture

Investigating the re-integration of organic food crops and animal production on above and below ground diversity, soil health, farm resilience and food safety
Contact Moriah Bilenky, Purdue University

Collaborations

Monitoring for the arrival of Asian Long Horn Ticks in Indiana
Contact Doug Ginder, Indiana Department of Health
 
Monitoring the Effect of Annual Rye Grass and Festululiom on Fragipan Soils
Contact: Lloyd Murdock, University of Kentucky, Princeton Station
 
National Weather Service Station (NWS)
Purpose: Manual collection of daily weather observations from this site are sent to the NWS via a web-based application known as WxCoder.
Contact: Cliff Goff, NWS or SIPAC Staff
 

SOUTHERN INDIANA PURDUE AGRICULTURAL CENTER

FORESTRY RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS 2024

 
Ron Rathfon, Forestry & Natural Resources
11371 Purdue Farm Road
Dubois, IN 47527
812-678-5049
ronr@purdue.edu
 
Title: Monitoring Wildlife Diversity and Abundance through Camera Trapping  
Location: SIPAC, All Forests
Purpose: Monitoring mammalian wildlife diversity and abundance using camera trapping in Purdue and FNR managed woodlands.
Contact: Jarred Brooke, Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue
 
Title: Forestry for the Birds: Avian Response to Forest Management  
Location: SIPAC, All Forests
Purpose: Monitoring avian species diversity in response to different management practices in Purdue and FNR managed woodlands.
Contact: Jarred Brooke, Lenny Farlee, and Rod Rathfon, Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue
 
Title: FNR Student intern program
Location:  SIPAC, All Forests
Purpose: To give 3 to 4 students hands on applies timber stand improvement and data collection experience
Contact: Ron Rathfon
 
Title: Prescribed grazing using goats for integrated management of non-native invasive vegetation
Location: SIPAC, PFP10, PFP14
 
Title: Pre-emergent herbicide application for Japanese stiltgrass control
Location: SIPAC, Fields 1b, 4, 7, 12b, 17, Woods F, G
 
Title: Oak shelterwood with underplanting demonstration
Location: SIPAC, Woods K
 
Title: Three-dimensional, baited electric fence for excluding deer from oak underplantings
Location: SIPAC, Woods K
 
Title: Bayer – Testing Aminocyclopyrachlor herbicide for injection and drill-and-fill treatment of hardwood stems.
Location: SIPAC, Woods Q, K
 
Title: Prescribed fire for invasive species management
Location: SIPAC, Woods E, G, M, Q, PFP8, PFP16
 
Title: Prescribed fire for oak woodland development and maintenance
Location: SIPAC, PFP1
 
Title: Blight resistant American chestnut progeny screening trial
Location: SIPAC, Field 11
 
Title: Prescribed grazing using goats for integrated management of non-native invasive vegetation
Location: SIPAC, Woods D
 
Title: Oak shelterwood and prescribed fire for regenerating oak demonstration
Location: SIPAC, Woods Q
 
Title: Growth and yield of upland hardwoods
Location: SIPAC, All tracts
 
Title: Integrating GPS, GIS mapping with stand level silvicultural prescription
Development in forest management
Location: SIPAC, All tracts
 
Title: Landscape level non-native invasive species management demonstration
Location: SIPAC, All tracts and fields