Farm Business Network says its price transparency service is a response to significant variances in the prices farmers pay for major inputs, particularly crop protection chemicals.  |  File photo

Price transparency provided

If one took Farm Business Network’s price transparency process down to its very basics, it could be called an online crowd-sourcing tool for the lowest — and highest — crop protection and seed prices in Canada. In short, it runs on farmer power. The more invoices farmers submit when they buy these products, the more […] Read more

Breen Neeser of Farmers Business Network. Taken at AIM '24. | Sean Pratt photo

FBN planning expansion of product line

Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers Business Network is expanding its footprint in Canada. The company that is primarily known for retailing agricultural chemicals direct to its farmer-members plans to branch out into providing various other crop inputs, such as farm lending products. “That’s something we do in the U.S. that we don’t do in Canada,” FBN’s […] Read more


Farmers will benefit significantly from powerful artificial intelligent systems recently released to the public. From marketing and finance to chemistry and biology to mechanics and computer programs, these new language models will soon help farmers quickly access information they need.   |  Getty Images

Chatbot provides agronomic advice

A tool that accesses publicly available data to answer questions is one example of the new artificial intelligence revolution

The list of AI-based products in the agricultural industry is about to skyrocket with the wide-scale availability to developers and farmers of these new tools.