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Building trust in agricultural biologicals with WinField United’s BioVerified designation

Nov 14, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Greg Culp has worked in the agricultural industry for more than two decades and knows one thing has stayed unchanged – one wrong decision can make or break a farmer’s crop success and can affect their family’s livelihood. He is the Vice President of Agronomy Sales & Marketing at Mercer Landmark, a farmer-owned cooperative which serves growers in Northwest Ohio. Like many ag retailers, Greg has seen the market for agricultural biologicals boom in recent years.
Land O'Lakes Farmcore Fashion Show: Joseph Goni

Oct 11, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer from Tulare County, California, still gets emotional recounting how historic flooding forced his family to herd their cows into trailers in the middle of the night. “It can be hard to talk about because at the time, I felt like we were watching our more than century-old legacy wash away right in front of our eyes,” Joseph said. Joseph owns and operates Lerda-Goni Farms, which has been in his family since 1922.
Land O'Lakes Farmcore Fashion Show: Becky Clark

Oct 8, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

In late February 2019, Becky Clark lost 14 of her cows after a blizzard caused her dairy barn roof to collapse. But the fourth-generation farmer from Winona County, Minnesota, explains the situation could have been much worse if it hadn’t been for their milk truck driver. Becky’s family and employees had been working through the night and morning to clear snow that continued to come down hard and fast. Around 1 p.m., the snow finally started to let up and the milk truck driver arrived.
Land O'Lakes loves these popular K-12 food trends

Sep 11, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Breakfast is often called the most important meal of the day. And that’s especially true for kids, according to the Food Research & Action Center. Their research supports that when students eat school breakfast, they:   Perform better on standardized tests than those who skip breakfast. Exhibit decreased behavioral and psychological problems and have lower rates of absence and tardiness.
Shaping the next generation of ag--2024 Land O'Lakes Member Scholarship winners

Jul 30, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Land O’Lakes takes great pride in awarding three exceptional students from the class of 2024 the Land O’Lakes Direct Member Scholarship, which will contribute to their higher education expenses for the fall semester. Every year, this $5,000 scholarship is awarded to three college students, including those pursuing 2-year degrees and technical college programs in addition to 4-year college programs.
tauFisher predicts circadian time from a single sample of bulk and single-cell pseudobulk transcriptomic data - Nature Communications

May 6, 2024 | nature.com | Junyan Duan |Michelle Ngo |Satya Swaroop Karri |Johann E. Gudjonsson |Babak Shahbaba |John Lowengrub

AbstractAs the circadian clock regulates fundamental biological processes, disrupted clocks are often observed in patients and diseased tissues. Determining the circadian time of the patient or the tissue of focus is essential in circadian medicine and research. Here we present tauFisher, a computational pipeline that accurately predicts circadian time from a single transcriptomic sample by finding correlations between rhythmic genes within the sample.
Molding the next generation of diverse talent

Feb 28, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Of the 3.4 million agricultural producers in America, 95% are white, according to the recently released 2022 Census of Agriculture. That number has remained mostly unchanged since the last report was conducted in 2017. The latest numbers reinforce the stereotypical image of individuals working across the agriculture industry. Though progress has been made in enhancing diversity in agriculture, minorities are still significantly underrepresented.
Feeding the future: Empowering students to explore diverse paths in agriculture

Feb 14, 2024 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

What’s the adult version of the question, “What do you want be when you grow up?” Some might argue it is, “What do you want to major in college?” Choosing a major is one of the most important, but stressful decisions students make in college and will influence every student’s future career path. About two years ago, 19-year-old Aria Alridge was facing this common dilemma among high school seniors after getting accepted to Tuskegee University in Alabama.
Baking beloved family recipes with Land O'Lakes

Dec 20, 2023 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Watch the recipes -- and family memories and traditions -- come together The holiday season brings people together to share in all kinds of traditions. But at the heart of it all? Food. This year, one of our farmer-owners, Sadie Frericks (and her two daughters!) bake up one of their beloved family recipes. Watch the recipes -- and family memories and traditions -- come together.
Getting more of our food to people in need

Oct 26, 2023 | landolakesinc.com | Michelle Ngo

Land O’Lakes is featured as an honoree in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards for our work with Spoiler Alert, which improved our process of donating food to more families in need. The annual list from Fast Company showcases the businesses and organizations driving change in the world, and our collaboration with Spoiler Alert was highlighted in the Corporate Social Responsibility category as an honorable mention.