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Indiana has over 400 soil types and multiple microclimates. Each section of farmland reacts a bit differently to fertilizers, cultural practices, pesticides, and tillage systems. And each parcel of forest reacts differently to different management practices. To serve people in all parts of Indiana, Purdue operates eight regional Purdue Agricultural Centers typical of farmland across the state.
The Director of Purdue Agricultural Centers, Jerry Fankhauser, and his staff, administer and coordinate projects at the regional centers, which are used by researchers from all agricultural disciplines.
The centers are points of intersection between research and extension; they are places where researchers carry out projects of a more applied and regionally specialized nature. At the outlying centers, researchers and extension educators help identify and solve production problems, take risks that eventually will benefit farmers, and explain and demonstrate the results of sophisticated research. Before the initiation of research, each principal investigator is requested to fill out a Request for Field Research Form.
Log on to http://shadow.agry.purdue.edu/sc.zen-geog.html to obtain weather data for the Purdue Ag Centers, updated at 7AM every day.