Held at the site of the new ADM Agriculture Innovation Center, the fall picnic is a much-anticipated yearly tradition. Companies donating items for the students included:  ADM, CNH, Caterpillar, Cline Grain, Eaton, Kellogg, Kraft, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, Parker Hannifin, and Reynolds Farm Equipment. The students took home tee-shirts, hats, pens, hand sanitizer, reusable shopping bags, chocolate bars, lip balm, drink mix, picture frames...

The dinner was delicious, catered by Shoup's Country catering. The weather didn't exactly cooperate - it was about 98 degrees - but there was a breeze from time to time. Shuttle buses ran on a 15-minute loop to get people to and from the ABE Building and Materials Management and Distribution Center made their restrooms available to us. A group toured the building after supper, led by project manager Chris Skiba. It is going to be a tremendous asset to the department. Stop by the Facebook page (Purdue University ABE)  to see all of the pictures.