Annual Conference Sponsors

Could your organization benefit from increased exposure to PFI members? Consider sponsoring the 2012 Annual Conference! Sponsor benefits include:

Your organization's name listed in press releases, in the Annual Conference brouchure, and other materials.
Complimentary registrations and meals
A display table in our exhibitor area

If interested, please fill out the sponsorship form and email to PFI Annual Conference Coordinator Kathy Eastman.

Made From Scratch

2012 PFI Annual Conference
January 12-14, 2012
Scheman Building
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

Download the conference brochure or register online today.

Practical Farmers of Iowa is cooking up an agriculture with a blend of profitable enterprises, healthful food, strong communities, and a commitment to our future farmers.

Our Recipe for Success?

Fedele Bauccio, CEO of Bon Appetit Management Company, will be our keynote speaker. When Fedele co-founded Bon Appetit in 1987, he set out to revolutionize the food service industry by bringing fresh, made-from-scratch food to the contract market. Today, Bon Apptit spends over $55 million annually on food from within a 150-mile radius of each café, uses only sustainable seafood, sources turkey breast and chicken raised without antibiotics as a routine feed additive, features natural beef burgers, and leads the industry in using cage-free shell eggs. In 2007, the company debuted its Low Carbon Diet, the first program to make the connection between food and climate change. Bon Apptit is now a $500 million company with over 400 cafés in 28 states serving over 80 million meals a year.

Fedele was named 2008 Innovator of the Year by Nation's Restaurant News, and also received the prestigious Going Green Award by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 2009. He is also a member of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production.

Ingredients include:

Multiple sessions on field crops, fruit and vegetable production, grazing, profitable enterprises, on-farm energy, cooking, local foods, partnerships between farmers and friends of farmers, and more!
NEW this year: PFI offers a Soils 101 short course, running January 12 in the afternoon through the morning of January 13 (before the start of the full conference)
Lots of networking time
Meals featuring PFI members products
Plenty of exhibit space

“No matter what the topic or session, I always learn something from attending the annual conference.”
Greg Koether, Farmersburg, IA

Our Programs

Made From Scratch

Our Recipe for Success?

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