When Leah Anderson joined Land O’Lakes, Inc. in 2014, one of the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperatives, she brought with her an unusual résumé for someone stepping into agriculture. Banking. Health insurance. Digital strategy. Not a single line about crop inputs, soil health, or agronomy.
Today, she’s SVP of Land O’Lakes and president of WinField United, the cooperative’s crop inputs and insights business, helping lead a technological transformation in a sector that feeds the country but has long operated on slim margins, volatile conditions, and risk profiles that would make most executives blanche.
