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Farmers Business Network

Farmers Business Network

Farmer's Business Network, Inc. is an independent agricultural tech and commerce platform and farmer-to-farmer network that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms and work toward a sustainable future. FBN is an advocate for family farmers and ranchers, and does whatever it takes to help farmers become more prosperous - whether it's through data science-driven agronomic insights about their fields, providing farm inputs through its e-commerce store, helping farmers sell their crop more intelligently and independently, or providing them with health or crop insurance. FBN arms farmers with the tools they need to make the best decisions for their business, their families and the planet. See the most commonly asked questions about Farmers Business Network: https://faq.fbn.com/s/ Follow Us @ twitter.com/FBNFarmers facebook.com/pages/Farmers-Business-Network/391276821026384 instagram.com/fbnfarmers/www.fbn.com

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Sep 9, 2026

Chase KochGUEST
4:59
And we hadn't really been focused on that.
Chase KochGUEST
5:02
And so that one, and then another friend of mine, Amal Deshpande, that created, uh, Farmers Business Network, was, which was basically the model of the Amazon of agriculture, and being able to go, uh, direct to farmer, and some of the, some of the, um, the services that he was providing I thought was really, really interesting.
Chase KochGUEST
5:21
And he could only do that because of the technol- where the technology was going to enable that business model.
Chase KochGUEST
5:27
So I just basically went to the team and went to Koch leadership and said, "We have to be a part of these companies.
Chase KochGUEST
5:34
Because that is gonna enable us to see what is gonna disrupt our core business with our, our nitrogen production assets and our global trading business, um, but also just be a part of that next curve, whatever it's gonna be." And, um, so that was the birth of Koch Disruptive Technologies.
Chase KochGUEST
5:54
We started looking at it from just an ag perspective, but we talked as a leadership team.
Chase KochGUEST
5:59
We said, "If we're gonna really invest in companies like Climate Corp and Farmers Business Network, we should be doing that across all of Koch."
Anthony PomplianoHOST
6:08
Mm-hmm.

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