Center for Global Food Security

Purdue Ag Alumni Fish Fry set for Feb. 4 in Indianapolis

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The 2012 Purdue University Agricultural Alumni Association Fish Fry has been scheduled for Feb. 4 in Indianapolis, with Howard G. Buffett as featured speaker.

The event will be held in the Blue Ribbon Pavilion on the Indiana State Fairgrounds, starting at 11:30 a.m.

Tickets, which must be purchased in advance, will be available later this fall.

Buffett is president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private foundation with a primary mission to address global food security through sustainable agricultural production and improved resource management. The foundation provides $40 million to $55 million in annual grant funding primarily in Africa, Latin America and the United States.

Buffett also operates a 1,400-acre personal farm in central Illinois, manages a 400-acre family-owned farm in eastern Nebraska and oversees two research farms owned by the foundation - a 2,500-acre farm in Decatur, Ill., and a 9,200-acre farm in South Africa.

He served in senior executive positions at Archer Daniels Midland Co., and the GSI Group. He is now serving on several corporate and nonprofit boards.                                                                                                                                                            

Writer: Keith Robinson, 765-494-2722, rbins89@purdue.edu

Source: Danica Kirkpatrick, 765-494-9113, dkirkpat@purdue.edu

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