Keystone Cooperative today announced the selection of Scott Logue as the next Chief Executive Officer, a leadership transition that supports the organization’s continued evolution and long-term growth strategy. Logue will succeed Kevin Still, who is retiring on September 1 after an extraordinary 42-year career leading the cooperative and championing the success of family farms across the region.

Keystone Cooperative is one of the nation’s largest and most diversified agricultural cooperatives, serving approximately 20,000 farmer-owners across Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. With 245 locations, nearly 2,000 employees, and core business divisions spanning energy, agronomy, grain, swine, and animal nutrition, Keystone combines the strength and scale of a regional enterprise with the local relationships and cooperative values that have supported farm families and rural communities for nearly a century.

The selection follows a rigorous and comprehensive search process led by Keystone’s Board of Directors. In partnership with an external search firm, the Board evaluated a highly qualified pool of both internal and external candidates, assessing leadership experience, strategic vision, and the ability to lead a cooperative of Keystone’s scale, complexity, and future opportunity.

“This transition represents both continuity and opportunity for Keystone,” said Bill Peters, Chairman of the Board. “As we look ahead, the Board has full confidence in Logue to carry forward Keystone’s cooperative strength while building on the values, relationships, and farmer-first commitment that have defined the organization for generations.”

Logue brings more than 29 years of cooperative leadership experience, advancing from frontline roles to executive leadership within the cooperative system. Raised on an Indiana farm and a graduate of the Ball State University Entrepreneurship Program, he served as CEO of Harvest Land Cooperative, now part of Keystone, before becoming Executive Vice President following the merger. His experience spans all facets of operations, most recently serving as Chief Operating Officer, where he helped lead Keystone Cooperative’s nearly $3 billion, multi-state operation. His extensive governance experience, including leadership roles with Land O’Lakes and service on national cooperative councils, further underscores his deep understanding of cooperative strategy and farmer-member needs.

“Keystone’s future will be defined by our ability to grow with purpose, strengthen the long-term sustainability of the cooperative, and continue evolving how we serve the market as a cooperative built for the future,” said Jeremy Mills, Vice Chair of the Board. “The Board fully endorses Logue and is confident in his ability to advance that vision while honoring the legacy and relationships that have made Keystone strong.”

Logue spoke to the opportunity ahead, noting, “It is an honor to step into this role and lead such a high-performing, fiscally strong, and growth-oriented cooperative. Keystone’s strength lies in its people, its membership, and its deep commitment to the future of agriculture. I look forward to working alongside our team to continue driving innovation, supporting family farms, and ensuring long-term success for the cooperative.”

A formal introduction of Logue will take place at Keystone’s Co-op Classic, a full-day event designed to give farmers access to insights and trusted partners while allowing them to experience the Cooperative Advantage. The Co-op Classic will be held Thursday, August 20, at Keystone’s Scircleville location, located at 16 S 1100 E, Frankfort, Indiana. Logue will take the main stage at 8:15 a.m. Eastern Time. Learn more about Co-op Classic at www.keystonecoop.com/coopclassic.

At the midpoint of 2026, there is a lot to reflect on across Indiana’s agbioscience economy and the sector at large. AgriNovus President and CEO, Christy Wright, joins today for an economic checkup. She highlights big wins for Indiana in 2026 – from hubs to headquarters – and looks ahead to AgriNovus’ moves to impact the state long-term. 

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Key Takeaways

INDIANAPOLIS — June 18, 2026 — Intelinair has launched the AGMRI AI Agent, an AI capability inside the AGMRI platform that lets agronomic advisors and growers ask questions and receive field-level answers in seconds. Now live, the AGMRI AI Agent is built on the agronomic data already in AGMRI: multi-source imagery, soil characteristics, weather, input applications, field boundaries, and historical yield outcomes.

The AGMRI AI Agent is purpose-built for agronomy, not adapted from a general-purpose AI tool. Advisors and growers are using it to ask questions such as “Which hybrids performed best on my high-productivity ground last season?” or “Where should I prioritize replant across these fields?” and receive answers grounded in their own data, eliminating hours of manual report pulling and cross-referencing.

“Agriculture has never had a shortage of data; it has had a shortage of time,” said Conner Schmidt, Commercial Leader of Intelinair. “Advisors are managing hundreds of grower accounts, and every recommendation carries weight. The AGMRI AI Agent gives them a way to surface the right insight on the right acre, instantly, without sacrificing the agronomic rigor behind it, and teams are already putting it to work this 2026 crop season.”

What the AGMRI AI Agent does
Agronomic advisors and growers are using the AGMRI AI Agent across five core use cases:

Availability
The AGMRI AI Agent is live now and integrated directly into the AGMRI platform for all AGMRI customers. To learn more or request a demonstration, visit intelinair.com.

Editor’s Note: High-resolution images of the AGMRI AI Agent are available for download here.

New corporate venture capital platform will invest to advance therapeutics, technologies and One Health solutions 

INDIANAPOLIS (June 18, 2026) – Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (NYSE: ELAN) today announced plans to establish Elanco Ventures, a dedicated corporate venture capital (CVC) platform designed to support, invest and advance innovation in animal health.

To be backed by a $25 million multi-year commitment, Elanco Ventures will initially focus on strategic investments in therapeutic advancements and supportive technologies across the animal health sector.

“From pets to protein – the animal health industry has never been more relevant than it is today,” said Jeff Simmons, President and CEO of Elanco. “Innovation is happening outside of the boundaries of any single company. Elanco Ventures allows us to strategically leverage the startup landscape to expand our visibility into a range of emerging technologies that help us meet pet owners’ evolving expectation of care and the increasing global demand for protein.”

While primarily focused on animal health, the fund may also explore opportunities within the broader One Health landscape. It will also leverage the proximity of partnerships within the One Health Innovation District in Indianapolis, anchored by Elanco and Purdue University, and designed to bring together life sciences, researchers, and entrepreneurs in one place to break innovation barriers and accelerate progress.

“Elanco Ventures embodies our commitment to partnership and innovation,” said Tim Bettington, Executive Vice President, Center of Strategic Growth at Elanco. “By identifying promising startup technologies and collaborating with the One Health Innovation District, we are better positioned to fast-track innovation that can redefine the future of animal health.”

Launching in late 2026, Elanco Ventures will be overseen by Eric Steager, an experienced CVC leader, and focus on early-stage companies, prioritizing Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A stages of development.

Hoosier Ag Today (HAT), Indiana’s premier agricultural radio network and digital news source, today announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Circle City Broadcasting (CCB) to dramatically expand agricultural television coverage across the state. Under the new agreement, WRTV-ABC will officially become “Indiana’s Ag TV Station,” powered in part by the trusted, daily reporting of Hoosier Ag Today.

For two decades, Hoosier Ag Today has been the backbone of farm broadcasting in Indiana. This first-of-its-kind collaboration between a local agricultural media organization and a major broadcast television company will bring critical farm, agribusiness, and rural community stories into mainstream television markets.

“We’ve been fortunate enough to tell agriculture’s story on the radio for the past 20 years across this great state, becoming Indiana’s most trusted ag source,” said Eric Pfeiffer, president of Hoosier Ag Today. “We’re thrilled to partner with CCB to expand that reach into the television space, bridging the longstanding gap in understanding between the agricultural community and the broader public.”

While WRTV-ABC will carry the designation of “Indiana’s Ag TV Station,” agricultural content produced through this partnership will be amplified across all of Circle City Broadcasting’s major platforms. This includes the WISH-TV statewide network (covering Fort Wayne, South Bend, Chicago/NW Indiana, and Lousville/Southern Indiana markets), MyINDY-TV 23 (WNDY), and all associated digital and social media channels.

The partnership will launch with daily agricultural news segments integrated directly into local newscasts, with plans to expand programming in the near future.

“The importance of agriculture to our Indiana community deserves a consistent, in-depth presence in mainstream media,” said DuJuan McCoy, owner, president, and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting. “CCB is proud to lead this important and long-overdue initiative. Our partnership with Hoosier Ag Today—recognized as a trusted digital and radio source for farmers since 2006—marks a historic step forward for Indiana broadcasting.”

“Our radio network has built an incredibly loyal, daily audience of farmers who rely on us for critical market and weather data and ag news that impacts their operations,” Pfeiffer added. “This partnership doesn’t shift our focus; it amplifies it. By pairing the dominant reach of our radio footprint with the incredible visual storytelling power of television, we are creating an unprecedented media powerhouse that serves both the producer in the field and the consumer at home.”

The collaborative agricultural news initiative is scheduled to officially launch on-air during the third quarter of this year on WRTV-ABC.

Strategic supply and license agreement will accelerate access for North and South American corn and soybean growers

PHILADELPHIA and INDIANAPOLIS, June 16, 2026 – FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) and Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA), two leading global agricultural science and innovation companies, today announced a co-exclusive strategic supply and license agreement that will expand access to FMC’s rimisoxafen technology across North and South America corn and soybean markets, adding an important new tool to each company’s respective herbicide portfolio. This collaboration will enable more growers across the Americas to control herbicide-resistant weeds, including Amaranthus species – the number one weed resistance challenge globally in soybeans and critical in cross-crop pressure in corn – with this groundbreaking dual mode of action herbicide technology.

“This agreement ensures that more growers across the Americas will have access to rimisoxafen, one of the most innovative herbicide technologies developed in decades,” said Leonardo Bastos, FMC vice president and chief marketing officer. “By working with Corteva, we are expanding the reach of this breakthrough technology to help growers effectively manage resistant weeds that threaten their productivity and profitability. Together, we are bringing growers a solution they urgently need. At the same time, FMC is committed to unlocking the full global potential of rimisoxafen across additional crops and geographies, reflecting our confidence in this molecule as a cornerstone of our innovation pipeline.”

Under the terms of the agreement, which extends through the next decade, FMC retains all rights of ownership to rimisoxafen and will supply Corteva with the active ingredient. Both companies will develop and commercialize their own exclusive premix formulations for the corn and soybean markets across North and South America, while FMC will continue to develop additional rimisoxafen-based products for other crops and geographies globally. Corteva will make an initial prepurchase payment of $200 million USD for product to be supplied by FMC. Together, both companies are committed to ensuring broad availability of this innovative technology and rapid adoption, supporting growers with durable weed management solutions for years to come.

“By collaborating with FMC on rimisoxafen, we are expanding our ability to provide growers with advanced weed control tools that complement our portfolio,” said Cynthia Ericson, Corteva vice president, weed control segment. “This agreement supports our long-term strategy of forging new collaborations that drive value for farmers, as well as a unique growth opportunity with attractive economics for Corteva above our current deep crop protection pipeline set to launch over the next decade.”

Rimisoxafen’s dual mode of action creates a significantly higher barrier to resistance development compared to single mode of action herbicides, providing growers with an essential tool for managing weeds like palmer amaranth and waterhemp that have become resistant to multiple herbicide classes and cost farmers billions of dollars annually in lost yield. First commercial sales are anticipated by the end of the decade, pending applicable regulatory approvals. The Herbicide Resistance Action Committee recently classified rimisoxafen as the industry’s first dual mode of action herbicide, recognizing its unique ability to control troublesome broadleaf weeds that threaten crop yields and farm profitability.

Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Former Purdue DIAL Ventures and Serial Startup Veteran Tim Dixon to Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Joins AgriNovus Senior Leadership Team

AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative to grow the agbioscience economy, announced today Tim Dixon as its new senior director of innovation – a role charged with accelerating startup and entrepreneurial activity in the state.

Dixon joins the AgriNovus team after more than 30 years of experience in the startup space and will lead the organization’s efforts to accelerate commercial innovation and company creation, building coalitions across industry, academia, capital providers, governments, non-profits and donors to drive awareness around the need for agbioscience innovation and the momentum growing around the state.

“Tim brings to the AgriNovus team a unique mix of startup experience, strategic vision and a deep understanding of transforming big ideas into real-world impact,” said Christy Wright, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. “As Indiana accelerates its position as a global leader in agbioscience, Tim’s experience will enable entrepreneurial activity, new company creation and strengthen ties across industry, academia and capital providers that are critical to our sector’s growth.”

Prior to AgriNovus, Dixon served as managing director of Purdue DIAL Ventures, where he fostered an ecosystem of corporate partners, successful entrepreneurs, startup investors and leaders in academic research to create companies that bring novel solutions to market to improve the global food supply.

DIAL’s venture studio employed an entrepreneur-first approach, resulting in the launch of 10 new companies in its first three years. Dixon also led Doyen Analytics, a human capital diligence firm, and InterOptic, a high-tech company backed by Pritzker Ventures that delivers high-speed optical networking solutions.

Earlier in his career, Dixon held various roles at startups and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley, Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Europe, launching multiple multibillion-dollar data center products and raising more than $300 million in startup funding and private equity investment.

He serves as a business mentor for the Mandela Washington Fellowship and is a prefect and board member of the Indiana chapter of the Tripoli Rocketry Association. Dixon holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master’s degree in quantitative psychology from Ball State University.

Dixon will lead AgriNovus’ cornerstone innovation program, Velocity, an accelerator guided by research that focuses in three critical agbioscience areas: bioinnovation, farmer-focused innovation and food is health. Velocity culminates with a demo day event and three $25,000 cash prizes for each track winner.

The next Velocity accelerator will kick off in mid-July. Companies, individuals and entrepreneurs who want to apply to participate can access more information here.

To learn more about the AgriNovus team, visit AgriNovusIndiana.com/team.

Convergence research: the idea of taking major agricultural themes and breaking them down into simple, digestible insights for various audiences. Necessary? Absolutely. And it’s the work that Dr. Trey Malone, Boehlje Chair in Managerial Economics for Agribusiness at Purdue University, has been doing with his team for awhile now. He brings his expertise in the studio today to dive into the intersection of entrepreneurship, policy and a massive agbioscience supply chain. Many highlights follow, including: 

 

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