Articles from Farmers Business Network

Farmers Business Network (FBN®) today announced the spin-off of its crop protection sourcing and first mile logistics subsidiary as a new independent company, Global Crop Solutions (GCS). The separation creates two distinct companies, each positioned to accelerate growth and better serve customers in their respective markets.

Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today launched its Profectus™ Feeds, a new approach to beef cattle feeding that could increase profitability and sustainability of beef production.

Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, celebrates several milestones achieved and significant expansions through a growing partnership with ADM, a global leader in sustainable agriculture supply chains.

Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today announced the launch of AcreVisionSM, a transformative solution designed to assist farmers in making informed decisions about land purchases.

Farmers Business Network (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today announced a significant enhancement to its delivery services, offering 3-day delivery or less on the majority of member orders.

Farmers Business Network (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today announced the launch of FBN Finance’s transformative Instant Land Loan Approvals* program. Designed to address the needs of farmers seeking land financing, this solution aims to streamline and expedite the loan application process, providing qualified farmers with instant approvals and efficient access to capital.

Farmers Business Network (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today announced the launch of an industry-first artificial intelligence (AI) powered agronomic advisor, named Norm℠, to provide farmers with a wide array of agronomic intelligence. FBN is inviting its members to experiment with Norm, helping refine the feedback it provides.

Farmers Business Network (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today released its 2023 FBN Ag Chemical Price Transparency Report, highlighting the extreme price variation facing farmers and shining light on an opaque market.

Farmers Business Network (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, announced today that its Saskatoon fulfillment centre has opened and started processing orders for growers across Saskatchewan and Canada.

Farmers Business Network (FBN®), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, announced the launch of its new bridge loan offering by FBN Finance, which provides farmers with yet another valuable solution when it comes to financing.

ADM (NYSE: ADM), a leader in sustainable nutrition and agriculture, and FBN (Farmers Business Network® FBN®), a global farmer-to-farmer network and AgTech company, today announced they had signed an agreement to expand availability of FBN’s leading-edge digital farm business management platform, Gradable, to ADM’s network of farmers across North America, offering 55,000 growers a comprehensive digital solution to manage their businesses and measure sustainable production data.

FBN®, the global farmer-to-farmer network and AgTech platform, today announced that its 2022 US Acreage Report found that despite some weather-related planting delays in the Northern Plains, increased acreage in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio likely helped push the corn acreage number to an estimated 90.4 million acres, up from USDA’s March estimate of 89.5. Soybean acres are pegged at 89.0 million acres, off from USDA’s March forecast of 91.0 million, also pegged to weather in the Dakotas.

Farmers Business Network® (FBN®), the global farmer-to-farmer network and independent AgTech platform, today announced it has begun construction on a 198,000-square foot fulfilment facility in Saskatoon. The facility will be one of the largest agricultural inputs distribution centres in Canada, to ensure farmers have convenient access to reliable on-farm delivery of critical farm inputs when they need them.

Farmers Business Network® (FBN®) the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, today released its 2022 Planting Report. The FBN Planting Report provides one of the first major survey-based estimates of U.S. farmers’ planting intentions for the year and those market implications, based on more than 2,000 responses responsible for 4.2 million acres across 40 states.

Farmers Business Network® (FBN®) the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, is pleased to confirm that the Canadian Competition Bureau – following a three-year investigation – found evidence that suggested “certain market participants communicated with the goal of influencing suppliers with respect to FBN.”

Greeneye Technology, the pioneer of AI precision ag spraying technology, and Farmers Business Network® (FBN®), a global farmer-to-farmer network and agtech company, today announced their agreement to test Greeneye’s groundbreaking precision spraying system in FBN’s 2022 On-Farm Field Trials Program. FBN will conduct field trials in the Midwest throughout the 2022 growing season to test the efficacy of applying tailor-made herbicide programs using Greeneye’s precision spraying system across a range of geographies and field conditions.

Farmers Business Network® (FBN) and Environmental Defense Fund today announced the launch of the FBN Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund one of the first U.S. agricultural financing programs to reward farmers who meet soil health and nitrogen efficiency standards through access to lower rates and fees, as well as agronomic insights to optimize the on-farm benefits of regenerative practices.

Farmers Business Network® (FBN®) the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, today announced the closing of $300 million in Series G funding. The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC with participation from LN Mittal Family Office, ADM Ventures Investment Corp., Colle Capital Partners, Walleye Capital, and Tudor Investment Corporation.

Farmers Business Network® (FBN®), the leading direct-to-farm ag tech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, today announced updates to FBN Health - Health Coverage Designed for Farmers. FBN Health will now be available nationwide in all 50 states, it has expanded to offer 4 different health plans with varying deductibles, and farmers can now enroll any time of year — not just during open enrollment.

Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, today released the industry's only seed relabeling report which found widespread examples of multiple brands selling the same seed variety, even though a majority of growers surveyed by FBN are unaware they are purchasing relabeled seed. Without transparency on which brands sell the same varieties, farmers are at risk of overpaying for seed -- one of the largest expenses for their operation -- and potentially also risking a lack of genetic diversity in their seed mix.

Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, today released the industry's only seed relabeling report which found that most seed farmers purchase is relabeled, even though a majority of growers surveyed by FBN are unaware they are purchasing relabeled seed. Without labeling transparency, farmers are at risk of overpaying for seed -- one of the largest expenses for their operation -- and potentially also risking a lack of genetic diversity in their seed mix.

Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, today announced it will begin taking 2022 applications for the FBN On-Farm R&D Trial Program, a one-of-a kind real-world testing program for sustainable agriculture and innovative technologies that connects developers of agricultural technology solutions -- from biologicals to robots and sensors -- directly with farmers and large scale, on-farm, real-world testing environments.

Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, today announced it will begin taking 2022 applications for the FBN On-Farm R&D Trial Program, a one-of-a kind real-world testing program for sustainable agriculture and innovative technologies that connects developers of agricultural technology solutions -- from biologicals to robots and sensors -- directly with farmers and large scale, on-farm, real-world testing environments.

FBN® - Farmers Business Network, the farmer-to-farmer network of more than 25,000 farmers who farm more than 70 million acres globally, today announced it has hired agriculture policy veteran Ken Barbic as Head of Policy and Global Government Relations.