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As CEO of Land O’Lakes, Beth Ford has broken new ground in many ways. This year, she was named the 12th most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine and she spent much of the last 12 months advocating for legal immigration reform and advancing US trade efforts. But she’s most known for her unwavering support of US farmers. For example, she’s pushed hard for public-private partnerships to get internet access to all kinds of remote areas, which has helped families, schools, and farms stay connected.
She also promotes other initiatives, like food security programs, climate-smart agriculture, and local development projects that actually listen to what communities need.
Under Ford, Land O’Lakes has made major inroads to help farmer resilience efforts, and it’s helped producers adapt to things as diverse as extreme weather and sudden market shifts. And that help is more than just words, with Land O’Lakes delivering financial support, new technology and the training to use it wherever it’s needed most.
