Mike Macrie Named CIO of Land O'Lakes, Inc.

ARDEN HILLS, Minn., June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Land O'Lakes, Inc. named Mike Macrie as its new vice president and chief information officer today. He replaces Barry Libenson who left the company earlier this month. Macrie joined Land O'Lakes in 2010 as vice president and senior director of Ag Services IT.

"Mike has shown tremendous leadership through the successful transformation of Ag Services technology, including our proprietary R7^® Satellite Imaging Platform and rebranding of Winfield and Purina across intranet and customer sites," said Dan Knutson, chief financial officer for Land O'Lakes. "It's a testament to the internal bench of talent built at Land O'Lakes that gives us the opportunity to promote an internal candidate to CIO."

Macrie previously held a number of roles at Ingersoll Rand, AlliedSigna, G5 Technologies and Multi-Media Solutions. He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's of science from Cornell University in Applied & Engineering Physics.

"As Land O'Lakes focuses on accelerating growth, Mike and the IT leadership team will help drive our business transformation through technology, achieve returns from our IT investments and support our co-op's IT growth needs," Knutson said.

Land O'Lakes, Inc. (www.landolakesinc.com) is a national, farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative with annual sales of more than $14 billion. The nation's second-largest cooperative and number 194 on the Fortune 500, Land O'Lakes does business in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. It is a leading marketer of a full line of dairy-based consumer, foodservice and food ingredient products across the United States; serves its international customers with a variety of food and animal feed ingredients; and provides farmers and ranchers with an extensive line of agricultural supplies (feed, seed, and crop protection products and services) under the operations of WinField and Purina Animal Nutrition. Land O'Lakes also provides agricultural assistance and technical training in more than 25 developing nations.

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