Plus.ai, a Cupertino, Calif.-based provider of self-driving trucking technology, has completed its first coast-to-coast commercial freight run with an autonomous truck on behalf of Land O’Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn.

Land O’Lakes International Development, Arden Hills, Minn., introduced Land O’Lakes Venture37, a new brand that links farmers to markets and empowers communities to thrive.

Land O’Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., announced a joint venture with Royal Agrifirm Group, The Netherlands, to set up a dairy animal feed joint venture in China.

Vermont Creamery broke ground on a facility expansion project to support the company’s long-term growth.

Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN, Arden Hills, Minn., announced the forthcoming availability of Field to Market's sustainability metrics within the new Truterra Insights Engine from Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN.

Land O'Lakes International Development, Washington, D.C., received funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, D.C., and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support new agricultural capacity building and food safety programs in Georgia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Rwanda and Malawi.

Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN, Arden Hills, Minn., announced plans to roll out the Truterra Insights Engine, an interactive on-farm digital platform to help farmers advance their stewardship goals, return on investment in real time, acre-by-acre, and measure sustainability progress.

Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., selected six dairy companies to participate in the 2018 Land O'Lakes, Inc. Dairy Accelerator.

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Land O'Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Minn., and California Bioenergy, LLC (CalBio), Visalia, Calif., launched what is said to be a first-of-its-kind collaboration to support the financing, installation and management of on-farm methane digesters to generate renewable compressed natural gas (R-CNG) fuel in California, thus creating a farmer-led model for "barn to biogas."