Keith Newhouse

Keith Newhouse Ph.D. is a strategic-business veteran in Ag-biotech, who was most recently Director of Business Development with the Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN business unit and had been a 16-year employee of Land O’Lakes. His commercial experience over the past 35 years has included the development and launch of new seed and biotech products and technologies for a number of agriculture companies, including Monsanto, BASF, Syngenta, and Bayer. Since retirement from Land O’Lakes, he has been engaged in business consulting projects related to agricultural sustainability. Previous activities for the Land O'Lakes included: leading strategic planning for Land O’Lakes’s Seed business; oversight of the sunflower, canola and sugar beets programs; leadership in building a consolidated and full-scope forages program; start-up and integration of a Mexico tropical corn breeding program, and the international testing and licensing of forages and tropical corn. Previous sustainability solution roles for Land O’Lakes included topic area leadership for WinField® United business, and also led the overall Land O’Lakes corporate sustainability program for one year. He has a Ph.D. in genetics and plant breeding from Iowa State University.