Where Students and Crops Grow: Purdue Student Farm Wins 2025 TEAM Award

Oct 30, 2025

By Devyn Raver

The Purdue Student Farm (PSF), a small-scale sustainable farm managed by the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA), has been awarded the Purdue Agriculture TEAM Award. Established in 1995, the TEAM Award recognizes outstanding interdisciplinary team achievements of faculty and staff that support Purdue Agriculture’s mission in teaching, research or extension. In addition to this recognition, award recipients will recieve $10,000 to further strengthen and support their program initiatives.

Located on the northern edge of campus, the farm functions as an outdoor lab, supporting innovative sustainable agricultural studies and experiments.

Student involvement—from volunteers in the Purdue Student Farm Organization to those enrolled in the “Small Farms Experience” courses to part-time undergraduate interns, full-time summer interns and graduate researchers-- is central to PSF’s mission and the farm’s day-to-day operations. “We’re very dependent on students being here, working and getting their hands dirty,” said Chris Adair, senior farm manager of the PSF and advisor of the Purdue Student Farm Organization. “A lot of what we do is built for students to take ownership and really learn so they can teach new students coming in.”

Source : purdue.edu

Video: Understanding the Basics of the Renewable Fuel Standard

On Friday, April 24, 2026, from 12 noon–1:00 ET, the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law, alongside the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s (PDA) Agricultural Business Development Center (ABDC), presented this webinar in the Understanding Agricultural Law Educational Series, a course designed to develop subject matter literacy and competence on fundamental issues of agricultural law for attorneys and business advisors who work with or represent agricultural or rural clients but may not necessarily specialize in agricultural law:

“Understanding the Basics of the Renewable Fuel Standard”

The Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program requires transportation fuel sold in the United States to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, or advanced biofuels. Established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and later expanded by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the RFS is implemented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

This webinar provides an overview of the legal authority and structure for the RFS program and explain how it works, including the program’s system of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) and categories of renewable fuels. Additionally, this webinar addresses EPA annual volume requirement rulemaking and associated recent legal issues.