Penford to Release 2nd Quarter Fiscal Year 2012 Results on April 9, 2012

Penford Corporation (Nasdaq: PENX), a global leader in ingredient systems for food and industrial applications, will provide results for its fiscal quarter ended February 29, 2012 on Monday, April 9, 2012. Management will host a conference call to discuss the results the same day, April 9, at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time (3:00 p.m. Eastern Time).

Earnings Call Information

President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Malkoski and Chief Financial Officer Steven Cordier will host the call. Please phone [phone] at 12:50 p.m. Mountain Time on Monday, April 9, 2012 to participate in the call. The conference call will begin at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time (3:00 p.m. Eastern Time).

A replay will be available from April 9, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time until April 16, 2012 at 9:59 p.m. Mountain Time. To access the replay, please dial 1-877-660-6853. Enter pass code 286 and conference ID code 384105.

This call is also available in “listen only” mode through our website at www.penx.com under the section titled Investor Center.

About Penford Corporation

Penford Corporation is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: PENX – www.penford.com) that develops, manufactures and markets specialty ingredients for a variety of industrial and food applications. Products include a broad line of modified starches for paper and packaging, biofuels, sustainable bio-products to displace petroleum-based chemicals and specialty food ingredients. Penford has seven manufacturing and/or research locations in the United States.