River Country RC&D

11th Annual Midwest Value Added Agriculture Conference

Farm and Home Added Value

Profiting from Renewable Energy and Regional Food

Thursday and Friday January 22 and 23, 2009

Located at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, MN

Come learn how to profit from the growing market for local food and renewable energy. Visit the trade show, participate in round table discussions and eat your fill of great locally grown food!

To register for the conference, please print out the registration page and mail to Hiawatha Valley RC&D.

Registration Form

Full registration brochure with list of presentations and schedule. This is a large document and should only be printed if needed.

Full Brochure

Questions? Please call:

Hiawatha Valley RC&D 507-281-1959 Ext. 4

River Country RC&D 715-834-9672

The 2009 Midwest Value Added Ag Conference will address real life issues such as farm business management, marketing your products and on-farm bio energy options. Please join the round table discussions, break out sessions and general session speaker presentations. The conference brings Farmers and Ag folks together from across the Midwest to listen, learn and discuss agricultural issues that we are dealing with today.

Keynote Speaker: Kate Clancy PhD

Kate Clancy is one of the nation's leading authorities on food systems, with expertise in sustainable agriculture, food policy, food systems planning, organic food, and related topics. She is now a food systems consultant working with many organizations around the country. She has served as a Senior Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and before that Director of the Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy. Clancy has a Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at Cornell and Syracuse universities. She was nutritionist and policy adviser at the Federal Trade Commission and a resident fellow at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy. She has served on numerous boards and committees, and is presently on the board of the Accokeek Foundation. She is also a Senior Fellow in the School of Agriculture Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota. She was a member of the Board on Agriculture panel that produced the groundbreaking report "Alternative Agriculture" and has published and spoken widely on sustainable agriculture and food systems. Her present interests include the development of regional food systems, the research needed to advance sustainable agriculture policy, the complementary issues of farmland preservation and farm viability, policies and policy research that support the grazing sector, and the misperceptions regarding nutritional qualities of organic food.

Interested in Becoming a Sponsor and/or Exhibitor? (5 pages)

2009 Confirmed Sponsors and Exhibitors- As of 01/05/09

AgStar Financial Services

Alfred Bautch

Animal Welfare Institute

BioLive Soils, LLC

Cashton Farm Supply

Chippewa Valley Electric Cooperative

CIAS, UW-Madison

Driftless Area Initiative

Farm Service Agency

Fillmore Soil and Water Conservation District

Forest Agriculture Enterprises

Hoch Orchard

Hammerand Farm

Just Local Food Cooperative

Land Stewardship Project

Land Use Institute at Vermont Law School

Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service

Minnesota Buffalo Association

Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Minnesota Farmers Union

Minnesota NCR-SARE & MISA

Minnesota NRCS

Natural Way Mills

Olmsted Soil & Water Conservation

Organic Valley and Organic Prairie Family of Farms

PastureLand Cooperative

People's Food Cooperative

Productive Conservation on Working Lands

Rochester Convention and Visitors Bureau

Sacred Heart Hospital

Southeast Minnesota Food Network

The Bullfrog's Eat My Fish Farm

The Cooperative Foundation

Thousand Hills Cattle Company

UM-SE Regional Partnership

Viroqua Food Cooperative

Whole Farm Cooperative

Wisconsin DATCP

Wisconsin Farmers Union

Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board

Wisconsin NRCS

Windustry

Xcel Energy

MORE INFO TO COME!!!

To become involved with the 2009 Value Added Conference, Please contact:

River Country RC&D Council Inc.

(715) 834-9672

If you like to get on our mailing list, call us at 715-834-9672 or email us.

River Country Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council is a non-profit 501 (c)3 tax exempt organization that initiates and facilitates wise use of natural, human and economic resources. The River Country RC&D Council prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status.