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Beth Ford

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first: 2019-01-21
most recent: 2019-01-21
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“Well, some of the things we might say is that you have been applying different chemicals over here or different nitrogen or different fertilizers over here. And guess what? This particular area of your field not productive at all. And what we would recommend is not putting this on right away, instead do variable rate application, take a soil sample from that, then you can decide to put the next decision and then the next decision. Or we may see water seepage where we're getting retention issues with different quality and different quality issues in the soil. Here are the three or four things you can do. We did some work, for instance, with the state of Minnesota on water quality and water quality issues for water bodies that were close to farmland. So what we do with that information, in addition to helping them, we are partner with companies like Walmart who has the”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What you're looking at is things like I said, variable rate application. You're not going to put all your fertilizer on at the same time because guess what? Sometimes it washes away and you're not getting a good return on that investment and you're in areas that's depleting the soil. Soil quality is absolutely critical for a farmer. You might look at water, water retention. So there's always some concerns about whether there's impact in groundwater or in different watersheds around there. So what we're looking at are probably 140 different variables with a farmer in this model that allows us to diagnose how sustainable they are and then make recommendations about changes they can make in the way that they're producing that will allow them to be not only more productive but more profitable and then more sustainable.”
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“Things you need to do, and we can help you with that, and we'll put on the following sprays. So there are various things that you're doing in terms of technology, whether it's data, data analytics. We also have a platform called Shrutera, where we're working on sustainable production on the acre. And again, we can work with a grower who wants to have a more sustainable production model. What does that mean?”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we were just trying to say if drone technology could be used more precisely because satellite technology, of course, if there's cloud cover, you're not getting a good picture in season of what's happening. And so you may not be able to react as quickly. So we said if we could couple that with some drone technology and be more targeted or directed, would that be more efficient? Because you couldn't capture the data effectively and the data structures that you needed. Plus, you go to how efficient is it to fly drones one at a time across different fields? Who's doing that and how capable are they? Right, the training. So, I mean, so we have that. We have soil testing labs, Solem labs. So we may find, you know, we may say, hey, it looks like there's a disease state that's occurring in this particular area. Send somebody over there. You take a tissue sample or a soil sample. We have soil labs that then comes back to a master agronomist. And that agronomist then is looking at it and saying, here, these are the three.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Predictive analytics of what We have satellite technology drones. But drones, if you think about it, somebody's got to be flying the drone, right? And I think everybody thinks that agriculture, look at this, is so cool. The guy's flying the drone over to the back 40, right? When in reality, who's doing that? And where's the data being captured from that drone? So we actually had a contest with some universities, bring your best idea of how you would capture drone data and pair it with our satellite technology. It just wasn't there yet. That ability to match data.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What does that mean? It's a prescription, an RX. Right. Let's talk about more. So, you've got informing right now technologies. There's automated combines, automated, robotic kind of planting and seeding. The other is predicting for people what predictive analytics of what they should grow. They should grow soybeans here or grow this here. This isn't going to work. Talk about some other things that are happening, drones. Drone techniques. Yeah, we have satellite technology.”
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“That's right. That's right. And so that type of technology, plus the insights. And really what we're an insight driven, we call it marketplace back insight driven company. So that data silo I talk about, the data and capturing the data of the farmer and of our applied research plots and of our own insights allows us to provide almost a prescription. And we do. We have, we call it pharma RS.”
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“If you will That's something that's an efficiency. I mean, you can think of it in terms of like, I was just talking about coal mining, and I was like, people shouldn't be coal mining. It should be a robot. Like, it will be a robot and it should be a robot. It'd probably be a Chinese robot, but because we are not as quick as they are in the robotics area. But it doesn't make any sense in lots of ways because it's more precise. It's safer and things like that. That's right.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've seen those. Listen, they do have some automated vehicles, if you will, some combines and planters. And that's great. They could be more precise on the planting of the seed or in harvest. And I think we should all embrace that. The same way we're doing, you know, you're looking at automation and trucking. So it's an efficiency thing. So I don't know that that's necessarily a bad thing. That's something that's an efficiency.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the whole advertising thing for California. Technology in his necessity. Let's break that down because I think the first group of modern agriculture, you remember those movies when all the family farms were dying, there were films and things like that, it was that these big combines, these run by robots, were taking over all the land and just that was the vision of agriculture and technology initially.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This issue to solve this challenge, but I think it's absolutely critically important that everybody understands modern agriculture includes the use of technology and necessity. Let me put that down.”
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“I don't know if you know that. There are some happy costumes. That's an advertising thing for California. Well, there are some nice happy cousins in the Upper Midwestern. But I will tell you, it's fascinating to me because people, first of all, that folks don't understand that there's some technology, significant technology in use in agriculture. And then secondly, how resistant many folks are to the use of technology in modern agriculture. These are safe proven tools. You're using them on the acre. And it's important from a sustainable production perspective. There's less land available, less water. Population is going to grow to 10 billion. During that time, that coupled with distribution, we have to basically double output of food production by 2050 with less land and then water availability is a challenge. So we should embrace safe proven technology. We're for all types of agriculture, right? Because there's no one answer to solve.”
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“Exactly, and it's nurtured, and we're rubbing it, and it's a special doing that with the cows, right? We do. We do. And they're happier for it. And they give us better cows living.”
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“People harken back to the day where I want to go to the farm stand and everybody, that's terrific, but you're not going to feed a population that's going to get to $10 billion.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tremendous investment coming in. It really, I look at it, I think of two things that are really quite interesting to me. People are very uncomfortable with technology and food production.”
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“Well, yeah, 1800s and so on. But in the 1930s, it was 30 some percent. I mean, it's just moving that rapidly. It's a great story, right? Right. production efficiency. So what you're doing there is you're trying to validate with an insight what the grower or what the producer should do, what they should plant, what is most fertile area of their property, how they can optimize production. We have applied research plots, over 200 applied research plots, some in China, some in Africa and in the United States. And from that, we get that data. And basically we're testing things before we have to go and put it on the acre of the farmer. We have R7 tools that allow us, it's what our platform is called, that allow us to identify different ways that they should produce. And so, you know, go back to this. It's really fascinating to me because technology is heavily in use in the ag sector.”
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“I could take a picture, I'll send you all right. Okay, so we have data salads. We have predictive models. So it is much more high tech. And I think that folks believe that farming is kind of old school. Only 1.3, 1.4% of the American population is evolved in agriculture.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Folks start to invest in it, and we certainly have seen technology investments. Landa Lakes has been at the forefront of that, and we've invested in, we have satellite technology, you can go over our farmer's land. We give them a prescription for what they should plant. We have data silos. We're capturing farmers' data silos.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, one of our biggest partners is actually Microsoft, and they're using technology and agriculture with us. What happens when you have an industry sector that's performing well where people see margins?”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, but no, they're going to take pictures of the roof. Anyway, I won't go into roofing technology right now for you, but it was fascinating because every company's me, I wouldn't even thought about it, but they are heavy tech. They're being going into heavy tech. Talk about sort of the tech things within agriculture right now, sort of the big trends.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That insight. I Here's a new innovation. We're doing a new business. Where are we going to Talk about that a lot. All right, we're here with Beth Ford. She is the CEO of Lando Lakes. When we get back, we're going to talk about Agratech. We're here with Beth Ford. She's the CEO of Landa Legs. We've been talking a lot about her background. But now I want to talk about agriculture technology. And it's an interesting area that I don't really focus on, but I'm actually interested in two areas recently. One is construction tech, and I'm just fascinated how, because I think the way we build houses right now is artisanal. We make like... We put up the same drywall everywhere, but not in any kind of organized fashion. So I'm”
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“Manufacturing. I love that insight. I think the farmers are the ultimate entrepreneur. You know what? It's a biological system. It could be too hot to.”
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“Including the valley. trade For growth. One of the things I think about a lot is how the modern company is going to change. You know, I had a really interesting discussion I'm blanking with, I think it was Ellen Shell about the, it was about the future of work, but it was also about the history of work and how for many years it's interesting because we talked about the farming to manufacturing shift. And farmers in the last, before that shift happened, industrial manufacturing won now we're going to be in part two, farmers were entrepreneurs. Like if you think about it, Americans were entrepreneurs much more entrepreneurial than you did your crop or not, you figured it out, you did that. Everyone mostly everyone worked on their own until the manufacturing age when everyone went into companies and just were told what to do, to push what button to be in this place. And one of the things that I find interesting is I think the way companies are run now are going to change really drastically. I wonder if we go back to that concept of everyone being an entrepreneur, all employees being entrepreneurial and stuff.”
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“Changing consumer money coming in from different areas, including the valley, on ag tech. So different competitors, low commodity prices over extended period, tariffs, trade. And so what's it like? It's challenging. And I think if you say, boy, I wish it was different, you shouldn't be in the CEO slot. That would be my view. I think it is exciting. I think we're well positioned. But what we talk about from a team perspective is it's up to us to find those areas for growth. And there's not going to be any gimme's. And isn't it phenomenal that we get the opportunity to redefine what growth opportunities there are for these businesses and continue to drive growth? One of the themes I think...”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, the environment, the operating environment, every operating environment is very challenging. There are no gimmies. So during the process, when I was being assessed as CEO, one of the things you have to do is you have to say, what do you think the operating environment is? What are your strategic priorities? And then what do you think that you need to do to drive the business? And what I said is in agriculture, especially over a period of time, say 2005 to 2013, there were some tailwinds. And if you caught a good tailwind, there was good growth and you needed to position the business well, but you could get some good growth. And growth is always critical. It's a great growth industry. It's the greatest growth industry because of population growth around the world. You need to have more food production over the next by 2050 to get to 10 billion people to feed them. So there was growth there. Now it's a kind of a fraught environment. I mean, I can go through every angle and tell you interest rates, strength of the dollar.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, before we get in this section we're going to talk about Lana Lycent agrichech essentially and how it's changing your business. What is it like to be the, I'm thinking a lot about what it's like to be a CEO today at companies that aren't, I deal with tech companies all the time and I know they're not different, but things in companies are changing, how tech companies are run, how do you look at the role of a modern CEO today?”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This point she does have a lot, there's a lot of children over there. My mom has eight, so you know, and you have three. And each of them has a butler, of course, but still, sorry, Susan, that's true. But, you know, does it allow me to effectuate change? You know, I think it's a really important point. What I try to do is, you know, I don't go out there and announce this, but everybody knows that I am into my family and I'm going to make family decisions. And so I think it makes them feel more comfortable. People feel more comfortable to say, you know, I'm going to leave too. I need to go and take care of my kids or I've got an issue. And so I think that makes folks more comfortable, women more comfortable to say, I don't have to show up at a particular time and leave at a particular time. I'm going to be judged as not professional if I do that. And so I think that that is helpful.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, not a ways. Listen, you know, I'm not going to change myself. I like myself the way I am. That's true. That's a fair point. So what am I going to do? So I think it's been fine and I think the most important thing, I say this about starting work period. I say my family is my priority and you need to understand that. So there will be times I will make decisions. I'm taking my children to the bus. I'm going to this man. I'm leaving early to do XYZ with my kids with my family. And if that's acceptable, then this is a great place. If it's not, this isn't the right place for me because that is my priority. And that, you know, when I'm very upfront with that, that's been perfectly fine.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a thing, it's a lot. It's a three multiple, just so you know. A lot. It's 75th anniversary. Congratulations. It's one 70 close to 80.”
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“That was just a non starter. Right. And I would tell them that. I would tell them why that was not going to be acceptable to me. But I live my life to live my life. I live my life openly. I have a great life. I have a great spouse 26 years together. We have three teenagers.”
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“One may say they popped in. Why are they showing up at my doorstep? You know, no, I've been out there because the reality is I have nothing. I'm not ashamed of my family. I love my family. I feel very blessed. And I feel blessed to be who I am. And so, yes, I have been open about it. I will tell you that there have been very selective decisions I've made in my career where I certainly recognized previously, let's say 20 years ago, 15 years ago even 10 years ago, going to certain parts of the country, taking different jobs with different companies that were more conservative.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I agree. I mean, we're not represented appropriately given our number. And I talk a lot about making sure you put yourself in position to be considered for different roles. And it requires quite a bit of sacrifice. I've moved quite a bit with my family. And I've moved to different companies to look at opportunities to continue to grow my career. It takes a lot of, I guess, a push to get where you want to be. And that's certainly what I would say. It isn't representative of where it should be. I've met a number of fantastic female leaders. And I think that they should be in a position to get the top job. My wish would be that it would move more quickly.”
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“I mean, it was interesting because Emily Weiss from Glossier, who's running Glacier's very Growing beauty company, online beauty company said the same thing, and I was like, Can you ignore it completely? It's hard to imagine. Well, no, but I mean, you know, I've been through the journey in my life. I've certainly had more. Of course. I will call them out directly when they do it. And I'll say, I don't appreciate that, or sometimes I'll use humor. But I have not really encountered that to any significant degree, certainly in my current company. I have over my career journey certainly encountered that.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, certainly there's more of a spotlight on you, right? Because I get questions all the time, boy, there aren't very many of you. There are a number has been shrinking. And I think, of course, it's highlighted because there are very few women in this position. I think there's an opportunity with that. And that opportunity means that by definition, yes, there is more of a spotlight, but there's more opportunity then to discuss the business, to make an impact. And so that's the way I've seen it. I don't sit there and think about it very much. I'm a woman and I'm in this position. I think this is my responsibility. These are the things I need to do. This is the work I need to undertake. And so whereas other people might highlight it. It's not really the way I come to work every day, me as a woman. And yet,”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And also your Is it correct that you're the only gay, openly gay CEO? Female. Female CEO. Tim Cook. Tim Cook and you. Again with Tim Tim. Talk about that. Talk about what that's like. Being one of the few CPOs. Yeah.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, and so right now, in becoming a CEO, you are one of the few women CEOs. What's it now? 4%? It's something like four and a half percent or something like that? 27, I think, of us now? Yeah, right.”
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“How many years, three or four years ago? I've been there. This is my eighth year. What did you think? Like, I'm gonna, what did you think? There's just another supply chain. Whatever it is. No, no, no. No, I had been discussed with me before whether I was interested in being a CEO probably the last two or three companies. So that was certainly an aspiration. I did talk with the CEO and with members of the board about this previously and certainly prior to this opportunity coming open.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was my background. But that's a stretch because he's just a supply guy like you are. And then when I was there, after a couple years, I took over responsibility for IT, and I had had that in my portfolio before. And then I took R&D. Then I took the two of the businesses. Then I took the last business and suddenly was in position to be considered for the CEO slot. And the CEO retired last year. And I was named CEO in August.”
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“I spent some time in publishing for Hashette, also Scholastic, Harry Potter cliff of the Big Red Doc. I was the chief operating officer. I spent some time in the chemicals sector and was working around the world. And it was that last stop at a company called IFF working in international markets. I received a call. Would I be willing to come and talk to Landa Lakes about a role? And I decided to go in and do that. I'm from the Midwest originally, and this is, you know, was in the Midwest. So went there and was hired as their chief supply chain officer. And from that chief. Chief supply chain officers of all the operating manufacturing resources”
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“No, though we have a preferred tranche of equity, and so that would be more on the public markets. Got to be running this. Well, yeah, that's a good question. I actually have been in business for about 33 years. I've worked in six industries, seven companies. I started in the oil industry. Okay. I worked for mobile oil in all inline operations. I manage tanker and barge. I was in trucking facilities. I was on the docks and the refineries. I spent some time at Pepsi. I ran the North American supply chain. I did some time in the publishing. Pepsi. Or making Pepsi? Both. Okay. Both.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have 4,000 members. We have growers. We have producers. We have retailers, so local retailers, so it's a reverse ownership model, say about 800 of those, and then the board, the governing board, it's a 28 farmer members actually sit on the board, and that was who selected me. So not public company, not”
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“On the acre with farmers. And that's really important, again, because of the changing environment and the need to feed a growing world population. So when you are saying you're owned by the farmers, it's literally, it's governed by 4,000 farmers.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, actually not by a long shot. Okay. The dairy businesses, which includes Vermont creamery, cozy shack pudding. We have snack cheese. We have a lot of different products in the dairy sector. And that's probably a third of the company. So I'm going to go back to your question because I think it's really interesting. Landa Lakes is a co-op. We are a farmer owned. We retain farmer ownership. We're owned by about 4,000 farmers. We touch half the harvested acres in the United States. A quarter of the farmers. The reason that's relevant is the business portfolio. It starts from the farmer. We have an ag tech portfolio where an expert wholesaler, we're working with growers on the acre. We have purina animal nutrition. So we feed 100 million animals a day. We feed the Olympic horses. We have all sorts of animal feed businesses, exotic animal businesses. And then the dairy business. We also have a sustained platform where we're working, again, on sustainable food production.”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talk a little bit about how you got to land a legs. What was the journey to this? Yeah, well, what it does, first, what does Landa Lakes have? Explain to people what they own. Right. Well, you started with the butter, and everybody, of course, knows Landa Lakes because of the branded goods business and our butter business, which is where the company was founded. But actually, we're still the biggest...”
2019-01-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford and Rep. Steve King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In Minneapolis? Right outside of Minneapolis and Arden Hills. And, you know, the founding of the company, it was founded by dairy farmers in 1921, Upper Midwest Dairy Farmers. And it resides still in Minnesota, which is where it was founded. All right, so I want to get first into your background. There's all kinds of things to talk about and stuff in the news and stuff how you guys operate.”
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