Farmer's Business Network, Inc.

📢 The results are in! In its second year, the Regenerative Agriculture Finance Program (RAF) — launched by Farmer's Business Network, Inc. and Gradable® in collaboration with Environmental Defense Fund — continued to grow and reward farmers for implementing regenerative agriculture practices.    In 2023, the program expanded to provide 84 loans totaling $41 million. Enrollment increased by nearly 70%, and the farmers who successfully met the soil health and nitrogen management standards received interest rate rebates. The RAF also opened new opportunities for farmers to stack funding through the Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovative Finance Initiative.     As we begin reviewing this year’s RAF outcomes, which also saw increased enrollment, the program is gearing up for even greater impact in 2025 with expanded opportunities and financial products designed to support farmers’ sustainability goals.    💡 Learn more about the RAF program and its 2023 results here: https://www.edf.org/Z6at Thanks to all those who have collaborated with us on this initiative, including Kurt Alles, Steele Lorenz, Henry Wells, Lainey (Wolf) Stenberg, Simone Schenkel, Alison J. Eagle and many more.

At Farmer's Business Network, Inc.we run a major Cyber sale every year, and today is the final day. It's typically one of the busiest days of our year and the result of months of prep work. This year we converted our Brandon, SD warehouse into a Cyber war room, and the mood is electric. We have our credit, logistics, sales, agronomy and supply chain folks in one spot to immediately handle customer issues, and process hundreds of orders. Our executive team is all here, making cold calls. It's incredibly fun to get the team in one spot and pull everything together for our farmers. https://lnkd.in/gJgtTQTZ #sales #agtech

Explore high-quality, affordable solutions—including generics, adjuvants, and crop nutrition products. Take control of your operation with products built to perform. Download the 2025 FBN Crop Protection Guide now: https://bit.ly/3ZJ168h #farmersfirst

Kit Barron vice president of technology at FBN highlights, "Norm is a potential solution to simplify the approach to these (production) processes and broaden the farmer’s knowledge." https://lnkd.in/ghqkRWHD #farmersfirst #AskNorm #FBN

FBN is constantly finding new ways to help family farms thrive. Here are some of the many ways FBN is helping farmers take control: ✅ Cyber Days special pricing, happening now ✅ price transparency ✅ agronomic tools & data ✅ free direct-to-farm delivery on most orders #farmersfirst #FBNCyberDays

🎉 Shoutout to a Listening Powerhouse: ShawnTrell Scales-SHRM-CP, PHR at Farmer's Business Network, Inc. This week, I’ve been exploring what makes listening so hard—and why it’s absolutely worth the effort. And honestly, I couldn’t find a better example of next-level listening than ShawnTrell. She has this ridiculous ability to take threads from a dozen different conversations, weave them together, and create a crystal-clear picture of both the challenge and the solution. It’s not just intelligence (though she’s brilliant). It’s not just experience (though she’s got that too). It’s her curiosity, her patience, and her ability to really hear people—beyond the words, to the emotions, context, and connections that so many others miss. Oh, and let’s be real: doing this in HR? Where the conversations aren’t exactly light and breezy? That’s a whole other level of magic. In a world where too many people treat listening like a waiting game for their turn to talk, ShawnTrell listens with purpose. She creates clarity where there’s chaos, builds trust where it’s needed most, and finds solutions that actually stick. Here’s the real point: Listening isn’t just a “soft skill.” It’s a leadership superpower. And ShawnTrell? She wields it with style, grace, and a side of humor that makes even tough situations a little easier to navigate. So here’s to you, ShawnTrell, for showing us what great listening looks like and for raising the bar every day. The impact you make is incredible—and we’re all better for it. 💬 Let’s spread the love: Who’s someone in your life who really listens? Tag them below and give them the credit they deserve!

We had a great time meeting with FBN farmer members at our warehouse in Hays, KS this week to kick off #FBNCyberDays. Thank you to Hunter Hewitt, FBN Territory Manager for leading a great event. #farmersfirst

"This year, crop protection pricing is back to all-time lows, and looking forward into 2025 there is some uncertainty on the horizon, so our advice is to start hedging some of that risk," shared Ian Loar with FBN SVP Development. https://bit.ly/3YUNbL1 #farmersfirst #NAFB2024

We had a lot of great conversations yesterday in Kansas City at #NAFB! Thanks to all the ag media for chatting with us about our Cyber November deals, AI on the farm, and what farmers should be thinking about heading into 2025. #agtech #FBNFarmers

Matthew Stupica, #FBN Senior Director of Procurement Excellence, applies his diverse category experience from large companies to drive value within FBN. Read more about why Matt Chose FBN at https://bit.ly/48GNzBj #farmersfirst #careerinag