NEW ORLEANS, August 18, 2026 – Women in Agribusiness (WIA) today announced the 2026 recipients of the WIA Demeter Award of Excellence, the organization's highest honor recognizing women who have demonstrated exceptional performance and made an outstanding contribution to agribusiness. This year's honorees are Krysta Harden, president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council; Dr. Magan Lewis, senior director of Innovation & Enterprise Operations at Bayer Crop Science; Emily

By Svitlana Synkovska, WIA Portfolio Director (August 18, 2026) Over the past decade, podcasts have quietly become one of the most powerful information tools in American agriculture. For farmers, ranchers, and everyone working the land, the format is a natural fit: episodes play hands-free in a tractor cab, during a long fence-line walk, or at the end of a harvest day when there's no energy left to read. Unlike trade magazines or conference sessions, podcasts are on-demand