Extension Outreach

To reach its full potential, the success of digital agriculture is highly dependent on outreach and education. Through Extension, faculty, partnerships, and other digital agriculture advocates, the impact of digital agriculture will grow as new ideas and opportunities spread.

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Purdue Extension proudly presents the Digital Ag Van, a mobile powerhouse reshaping educational events. From captivating drone showcases to cutting-edge IT demonstrations, this van offers tailored experiences for educators and specialists to rent for educational programming.

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Purdue is leading Indiana’s way in technology outreach through the use of UAVs aka drones. Purdue Extension personnel are helping farmers, agricultural professionals, and business owners turn data into efficient, profitable, and long-term success.

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Purdue's College of Agriculture faculty and 4-H Extension Specialists are involved in various initiatives and projects to bring STEM, data science, digital agriculture basics to young learners.

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Purdue Extension’s Digital Agriculture Curriculum prepares participants for future employment in agriculture through a mixture of presentations and experiential learning, with a focus on experiential learning in precision agriculture technology.

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Purdue On The Farm is designed to connect Purdue Extension with our clientele and partners to build and enhance relationships, to understand perception and practices, to observe, to generate data to underpin recommendations, and to build professional capacity within our Extension network.

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In this digital age, organizing and managing data efficiently is crucial. Whether you are keeping records on people, products, livestock, and/or fields, managing projects, or planning events, having a reliable system to store and access your data can make a significant difference in efficiency as well as quality of decisions. This short article will:

  • introduce you to the concept of private databases
  • give you some ideas of events or activity type data that you will probably find much more useful in a digital format
  • point you to existing templates that you can simply duplicate, refine, and deploy in your operation
  • point you to online resources to rapidly get you to a productive stage with your own private databases

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OUTREACH & EDUCATION

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Ignacio Ciampitti returns to Purdue as co-director of IDAAS and professor of agronomy

Purdue University’s College of Agriculture recently welcomed Ignacio Ciampitti, an...

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Hunsoo Song, the civil engineer who speaks (in algorithms) for the trees

Fire, metal, water, earth and wood. In South Korean tradition, these five elements explain...

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Purdue-led TOMI project receives $3.5M grant to turn a decade of data into new tools and strategies for tomato farmers

Indiana ranks third in the nation for tomato production. Lori Hoagland, a professor in Purdue...

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Purdue researchers acquire and analyze data through AI network that predicts maize yield

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase of 2024. Though far from that cultural spotlight,...

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Siddhartho Paul and his students use a RTK GPS in a soybean field to get precise location information
Satellites and soils: NIFA and AgSEED grants fund remote sensing data collection and machine-learning models to predict soil properties at farm-to-landscape scales

The few inches of soil you pick up on the tip of your shovel are part of a much bigger picture....

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Data-Driven Seminar Series

Purdue College of Agriculture presents a seminar series featuring experts in data science,...

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What is Purdue Agriculture?

What do you imagine when you hear the word "agriculture"? Yes, food production is part of what we do, but that's just the beginning. Innovation. Outreach. Research. Teaching. That's Purdue Agriculture!
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