Farmer’s Business Network, Inc.

Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. is an independent farmer-to-farmer network. Built by and forfarmers, the FBN network connects farmers to share information and enable powerful insights and enhanced profits. FBN members receive comprehensive farm benchmarking, real world seed performance analysis, precision data analytics, and input price transparency based on over 110 million acre events of real-world precision agronomic data. The FBN Direct e-commerce platform brings farmers online purchasing with no-haggle, transparent pricing on ag chemicals, fertilizers, seeds, technology and services. The FBN network has grown to thousands of farms, from 42 states, across 16 million acres. Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. has offices in San Carlos, California, and a National Operations Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. blends the best of Midwestern agricultural roots and SiliconValley technology as a completely independent company representing Farmers FirstSM.

The Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. mission of democratizing farm information and creating a digital farm economy has earned the support of world-class technology investors GV, DBL Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers LLP, Bow Capital and Acre Venture Partners. To learn more, visit: http://www.farmersbusinessnetwork.com

The future of agriculture will put consumers closer to farmers and their practices than ever before. We firmly believe that sustainability and profitability are not mutually exclusive goals. By networking thousands of farms across millions of acres, FBN analytics can help farmers maximize their profitability and yields, while minimizing their input usage.

We’ve already started. By marrying precision planting, fertilizer application, and harvest data with soil, weather, and tillage data, we can evaluate fertility in entire new ways. Our FBN Seed Finder system tracks the fertility response of thousands of hybrids and varieties for over a dozen crops. Meaning farmers can now easily search for the most nutrient efficient seeds. We also help growers look at the interplay between tillage, rotation, cover cropping, and weather in how they affect application timing and rates.

The future of data analytics will enable farmers to move beyond limited predictive models. We can conduct broad scale, real world analysis spanning millions of acres, annually and continually. And by tying grain buyers to field level data, we can help create markets for nutrient stewardship – bringing farmers more profit.