Land O’ Lakes has an updated look for 2020. The farmer-owned dairy cooperative, which produces butter, cheese and other milk products, has dropped the Native American maiden image from its packaging, ...

The company, a farmer-owned cooperative formed in 1921, said it would replace the decades-old illustration with photos of its members on some products. By Christine Hauser For nearly a century, an ...

A Native American woman will no longer adorn the packages of Land O’Lakes butter. After nearly 100 years, the Minnesota-based dairy company has removed the Native American woman kneeling against a ...

Grocery shoppers may have recently noticed something — or someone — missing from the dairy aisle. Mia, the Native American woman, whose cartoon image has been a fixture on Land O’Lakes products for ...

This latest chapter into Land O’Lakes expansive history begins when career marketing expert Heather Malenshek joined the Twin Cities-based Land O’Lakes team as Senior Vice President and Chief ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The state of Minnesota and Land O'Lakes announced a partnership Wednesday to improve water quality in farm country, leveraging the farmer-owned cooperative's retail network to ...

You probably know Land O Lakes as a famous brand of butter. What you may not know is that Land O’Lakes is a $13 billion company that includes our Land O Lakes dairy foods business, our Purina animal ...

ARDEN HILLS, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2025 — Land O’Lakes Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a multiyear strategic alliance, marking a new chapter in their shared commitment ...

Not long after Beth Ford became CEO of the Land O’Lakes cooperative in 2018, she toured agriculture co-ops and farms across rural America. By early 2019, she was alarmed that many small towns and ...

The chief technology officer at Land O’Lakes has a secret to making the cooperative, its owners and its customers more digitally adept: the human touch. A majority of Teddy Bekele’s calendar is purple ...