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.

Explore Our Comprehensive Digital Agriculture Outreach

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.

learn more

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.

learn more

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.

learn more

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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

OUTREACH & EDUCATION

Tomi Lori Ankita looking at tomato
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...

Read More
Purdue research team uses a computer on top of a drone to gather data
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,...

Read More
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....

Read More
uav data on a monitor
Data-Driven Seminar Series

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

Read More
two students lean over a counter as the tinker on a remote controlled car together
Digital Ag Club’s Scarecrow-bot making its debut at Boiler Gold Rush

Thumping hind legs. Two pointed ears. White, fluffy cottontails. The markers of an enemy to...

Read More
Songlin Fei, director of Purdue’s Institute for Digital Forestry and professor in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, standing among the trees in Martell Forest.
The Society of American Foresters honors Purdue professor with Award in Forest Science

The Society of American Foresters (SAF) annually recognizes individuals for their outstanding...

Read More

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!

Learn more