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
Mayo Civic Center
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
or
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
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