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Sixth Farmer2Farmer Convention Arms Farmers and Ranchers with Improvements to Assist Drive Profitability Throughout Their Operations with Advances in Digital Agronomic Planning Instruments, FinTech, Insurance coverage and New Sustainability Packages as Farmers Take Heart Stage to Talk about the State of Farming in North America
CHICAGO and OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Farmers Enterprise Community (FBN®), the worldwide AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer community at present opened Farmer2Farmer VI, its world convention devoted to bringing farmers and ranchers collectively to share their experiences and entry the 12 months’s most vital improvements from agronomy, know-how, and fintech to assist them drive revenue potential throughout their operations. Farmer2Farmer is a novel occasion in agriculture, bringing farmers and ranchers to heart stage to steer discussions about challenges and successes to their enterprise together with three days of instructional classes, knowledgeable displays, keynote audio system and commerce present demonstrations, happening on the CHI Heart in Omaha from December 6-8.
What Farmers Say About Farmer2Farmer
After a 2-year hiatus in the course of the pandemic, Farmer2Farmer returned this 12 months to convey greater than 3,000 farmers and ranchers along with main innovators in agriculture to study and create long-lasting connections. Two farmers attending Farmer2Farmer described its worth this manner:
“Going into 2023, I’ll be farming over 100x what I used to be once I began out just a few quick years in the past in 2017. The rationale Farmer2Farmer is exclusive and useful to me is due to the wealth of information handed alongside when assembly farmers from outdoors your personal neighborhood from all walks of life.” Ethan Clarke, Proprietor/Operator, Clake Farms, Washington, Indiana.
“Farmer2Farmer is an opportunity to speak to specialists in nearly each area of agriculture and put them in your again pocket; you might not want them at present, however you’ll. Each farmer is aware of the instrument you don’t have is the one you’ll need; Farmer2Farmer fills our toolboxes.” Mike Galloway, Gillette, Wyoming, Rancher producing beef, pork, and rooster.
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FBN Improvements for 2023: Creating Complete-Farm Revenue System that Places Farmers First®
The thought for the FBN community originated from farmers who wished to create an unbiased, farmer-driven data and commerce community. At Farmer2Farmer, FBN will share updates from throughout its Ag Tech platform, together with main innovation milestone bulletins from: FBN Direct® enter ecommerce platform; new FBN Finance choices together with loans, insurance coverage and premium sustainability program; and updates from FBN Analytics’ complete agronomic-network information analytics and resolution help applications.
“Our purpose in founding FBN in 2014 and in convening Farmer2Farmer annually is identical: We goal to convey our members the latest instruments, applied sciences, and insights they will leverage to maximise revenue potential in within the subsequent rising season—and to construct vital connections based mostly on shared experiences and data in agriculture,” stated Amol Deshpande, CEO and co-founder of FBN. “This 12 months, the stakes are larger than ever for farmers as they grapple with a number of threats to their stability sheets—from rising enter prices and rates of interest to persevering with shocks from the Russia-Ukraine warfare, and the influence of extreme climate and drought which presents main threats to livestock, yield, and transport.”
At Farmer2Farmer, FBN will announce main improvements throughout its companies together with:
FBN Direct will announce main updates to its pioneering digital shopping for platform for inputs designed to provide growers a totally built-in e-commerce platform, entry to high-quality branded and generic merchandise, a worldwide logistics community, and an expanded Group Builder community of native farmer companions. Bulletins embrace:
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Expanded Crop Safety Portfolio to offer farmers with selection, wonderful high quality, and provide reliability FBN introduced the enlargement of the Farmers First® model of Crop Vitamin, Adjuvants, and Crop Safety – complementing its WillowoodUSA model of high-quality generics. FBN expects to have 18 of the highest 25 crop safety merchandise within the US market accessible as an FBN model by 2025.
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Digital Agronomy – Seamless Buying In November 2022, FBN launched a serious new crop inputs planning know-how, FBN® Acre Packs, on FBN.com. Acre Packs allow farmers to assemble an enter program for seven crops, and mechanically calculate their complete price per acre immediately for seed, crop safety, adjuvants, herbicides, fungicides and crop diet—all non-compulsory for buy and transparently priced—giving farmers unprecedented perception into and management of their enter prices.
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Expanded Logistics, Built-in 0% Enter & Working Financing Choices The net purchasing expertise on FBN.com was enhanced this 12 months with two near-instant resolution financing choices (Enter & Working Strains) and the flexibility for purchasers to set and monitor their on-farm supply schedule due to FBN’s expanded logistics community of its owned distribution facilities & fleet. The FBN supply community now covers 87% & 97% of US and Canadian members’ acres respectively inside 250 miles. In 2022, FBN noticed buyer supply satisfaction scores rise 85%.
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Expanded Livestock Program, Digital Feed Retailer and Amino Acid Primarily based Cattle Vitamin Enhancements to FBN’s livestock program embrace its digital feed retailer for Liquid Feed providing instantaneous worth quotes and ahead reserving, a brand new amino acid-focused cattle diet program for feeders providing improved price of acquire, carcass worth and feed effectivity, and built-in livestock threat administration applications via FBN Insurance coverage.
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Expanded Seed Portfolio, Together with Enlist E3™ Trait Entry FBN introduced an expanded and refreshed seed portfolio overlaying traited & standard corn & soybeans, sorghum & millet, and hybrid Rye. Trait entry consists of Agrisure(r), Viptera(r), and Duracade(r) applications for corn and Enlist E3 program for soybeans – to offer growers leading edge genetics & traits at clear nationwide, no-zone record pricing.
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Enlargement of Group Builder Companions FBN introduced the enlargement of the FBN Group Builders program to offer growers native companions to help their enter and livestock provide buying to over 700 companions globally.
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Expanded R&D, Product Pipeline, and Trialing at Scale FBN’s R&D Funding program is scaling quickly, with highlights together with 262 world crop safety registrations, 54 new merchandise within the pipeline, 250 new area trials via its Innovators Analysis League together with 50 novel applied sciences examined.
FBN FINANCE: An Built-in Digital Platform for Household Farm Monetary Freedom
FBN Finance, the revolutionary built-in monetary platform for farmers, will announce updates In 4 main areas – farm finance, threat administration, grain providers & know-how, and sustainability.
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Absolutely Digital Mortgage Platform FBN Finance’s digital finance platform now covers Working Strains of Credit score, Enter Financing, Land Financing and Gear Financing with seamless on-line purposes, mortgage administration and upcoming digital fee choices.
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ADM Integration & Expanded Purchaser Entry In 2022 FBN and ADM expanded their sustainable Ag Tech Platform to supply FBN’s Gradable®—a complete digital platform providing farm enterprise administration and sustainability information assortment options—to as much as 55,000 producers throughout North America, offering a contemporary digital infrastructure to strengthen the connection between grain patrons and farmers, as a brand new period emerges requiring environment friendly, clear, and safe grain transactions for manufacturing agriculture. Gradable’s digital infrastructure connects farmer and purchaser experiences right into a single, safe know-how platform, laying the groundwork for elevated farmer participation in new sustainability markets by permitting them to seamlessly acquire and calculate verifiable manufacturing information–together with carbon scores—empowering them to monetize these downstream advantages available in the market.
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As much as $1 Billion over 3-5 Years in Regenerative Ag Finance Additionally in 2022, along with the Environmental Protection Fund, FBN launched its Regenerative Agriculture Finance, or RAF, fund, one of many first U.S. agricultural financing applications to incentivize farmers to undertake regenerative practices by assembly soil well being and nitrogen effectivity requirements with as much as 0.5% decrease charges and costs on seasonal working traces of credit score, in addition to agronomic insights to optimize the on-farm advantages of regenerative practices. The RAF program grew to become certainly one of FBN’s hottest monetary applications ever, promoting out rapidly. At Farmer2Farmer, FBN introduced they’re increasing this system, and anticipates originating as much as $1 billion in climate-smart working traces within the subsequent 5 years to allow wider adoption of sustainable agriculture practices.
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Expanded Sustainability Premium Packages By means of FBN Gradable® FBN’s dedication to offering the regenerative providers, know-how, and grain advertising and marketing providers that allow farmers to take part in premium applications for sustainably farmed crops and low carbon grain grew quickly in 2022, with almost 2,000 farmers enrolled in sustainability applications and main partnerships with ADM, POET Ethanol and MSP Eggs. Subsequent 12 months, tens of 1000’s of farmers can have entry to options of Gradable, FBN’s sustainability platform, at over 150+ areas.
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Expanded Digital Insurance coverage Platform for Crops and Livestock FBN Insurance coverage now incorporates a 45 licensed agent community accessible in all 50 states. With data-enabled optimization evaluation, applications have been expanded to incorporate MPCI, Hail & Wind, Income & Margin Safety, Complete Farm Income Safety, Livestock, Pasture-Rangeland-Forage, and Parametric Protection. FBN’s Digital Insurance coverage coverage heart affords the comfort of insurance policies and paperwork multi function place, with customized threat and protection optimization evaluation via built-in information science instruments. FBN Insurance coverage is now a Prime 10 crop insurance coverage company in the USA.
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FBN’s built-in grain advertising and marketing know-how combines information, bids, affords, hedges, contracts, tickets with no information required.
Information Bulletins and FBN Universities at Farmer2Farmer
FBN additionally issued a number of main information bulletins on the convention, in addition to commodity outlooks and new reporting from FBN Analysis led by Chief Economist Kevin McNew.
“Yearly Farmer2Farmer is an unparalleled studying expertise for us as conversations with our farmer members assist inform how we prioritize the event of latest services on the FBN platform,” says Deshpande. “Because the title suggests, farmers are the dialog drivers at Farmer2Farmer and our job is to soak up what they inform us and take these again to the drafting board.”
Farmer2Farmer may also characteristic keynotes from management knowledgeable and legendary Navy Seal officer Jocko Willink, co-author of the #1 New York Instances bestseller Excessive Possession: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, legendary climber and topic of the documentary Free Solo, Alex Honnold, and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan.
FBN may also present quite a few instructional classes via FBN College Particular Seminars:
Farmers and members of the press are inspired to register right here.
ABOUT FBN
Farmers Enterprise Community® (FBN®) is an unbiased AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer community with a mission to energy the prosperity of household farmers world wide whereas working in the direction of a sustainable future. Its Farmers First® promise has attracted over 55,000 members to the community with a typical purpose of serving to farmers maximize their farm’s revenue potential with information and know-how enabled direct-to farmer commerce, group and sustainability choices.
FBN has got down to redefine worth and comfort for farmers by serving to cut back the price of manufacturing and maximize the worth of their crops. The FBN community has grown to cowl greater than 117 million acres of member farms within the US, Canada, and Australia. Mixing the most effective of Midwestern agricultural roots and Silicon Valley know-how, the corporate has over 900 personnel and principal workplaces in San Carlos, CA, Chicago, IL, Sioux Falls, SD, a Canadian Headquarters in Excessive River, Alberta, and an Australian Headquarters in Perth with important warehouse and logistics, distant and area staff throughout the US, Canada and Australia. To study extra, go to: www.fbn.com
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