2022 John G. Baugh, director of agricultural services and regulations, College of Agriculture

2021 Karen Richey, Extension educator

2020 Mark Russell, professor of agriculture sciences education and communication

2019 Roy Ballard, Extension educator, and Renee McKee, assistant director and 4-H youth development program leader

2018 Natalie Carroll, professor of Extension education

2017 Patricia Wakenell, professor of avian diagnostics

2016 Robert L. Nielsen, professor of agronomy

2015 Freddie L. Barnard, professor of agricultural economics

2014 Mary Ann Lienhart Cross, Extension educator, and Lonnie Mason, Extension educator

2013 Donald J. Biehle, superintendent of the Southeast Purdue Agricultural Center

2012 Fred Whitford, coordinator of Purdue Pesticide Programs

2011 Michael D. Boehlje, distinguished professor of agricultural economics

2010 Leon Thacker, director of the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory

2009 Lawrence P. DeBoer Jr., professor of agricultural economics

2008 Randy Woodson, provost

2007 Tom Turpin, professor of entomology

2006 Marshall A. Martin, professor of agricultural economics and associate director of the Office of Agricultural Research Programs

2005 Victor L. Lechtenberg, vice provost for engagement

2004 Judi Merkel, Extension educator

2003 Wayne L. Singleton, professor of animal sciences

2002 Don D. Jones, professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Alan L. Sutton, professor of animal sciences

2001 Pamela Robbins, Extension specialist, 4-H youth development, and Juanita Russell, Extension specialist, 4-H youth development

2000 William F. Field, professor of agricultural and biological engineering