John Mcdonald Email Address

R and D Director Foundational Technology

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, United States, focusing on the dairy industry.

At Land O'Lakes, I lead a team of technical professionals whose focus is to develop unique and value-added dairy ingredient solutions for our expanding B2B customer base. We have a team of professional scientists and technologist who have many years of experience working with customers application development teams in the areas of seasonings in the snacking platform. Our ability to transform the customer's snacking application into a truly unique experience for their consumers is industry leading. We also have a highly skilled team of developers working on new applications of protein-based ingredient technology for our B2B customers. Dairy protein is known to be one of the most nutritious and bio-available proteins in a product developer's palette. Our dedicated protein team has the ability to customize our dairy-based proteins to exceed our customer's requirements and expectations. Another part of our total ingredient technology platform is our ingredient category team, which works to increase margins on value-added products by acquiring best-in-class ingredient technology for our own use. We do this by both working with internal Land O'Lakes/Purina R&D teams as well as creation of joint development partnerships with strategic suppliers and customers. Our goal is to develop unique ingredient technology solutions to enable our customers to provide the highest quality and functional products to the end-use consumer.