AgPro Podcast: FBN Tools Built To Leverage Technology

Question: What are you changing in 2018 to help grow your business?” 

Charles Baron
San Carlos, Calif.
Co-Founder, VP of Product and Marketing, Farmers Business Network

A: “Our business is always focused on farmers leveraging technology to help them increase their bottom lines through transparent pricing of inputs and increasing yields. FBN Direct just launched as an online e-commerce store for inputs. It finds farmers the lowest cost inputs nationally by comparing chemicals and fertilizers based on active ingredients and formulations along with brand names. FBN Seed Finder shows yields by trait, what farmers are paying for seed, and reveals which seeds are genetically identical.” 

 

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