NEW ORLEANS, August 24, 2026 – Women in Agribusiness (WIA) has announced the 13 winners of its inaugural WIA Leadership Awards, a new program recognizing the industry’s most influential women for their specific contributions to the future of the food and agriculture sector. The WIA Leadership Awards are the only independently judged, discipline-specific recognitions in agriculture designed to honor the executives, investors, technologists, and advisors shaping the industry’

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