What it does
- ●AI assistant — Yes
- ○Accounting — No
- ●Grain marketing — Yes
- ◐Field maps & agronomy — Partial
- ●Inputs — Yes
- ○Labor & staff — No
- ?Weather — Unverified
- ?Equipment data — Unverified
- ●Elevator / buyer connection — Yes
- ●Mobile app — Yes
Norm is FBN's AI advisor for agronomy/farm-management questions (FBN calls it a proprietary LLM; site warns 'Norm can make mistakes'). FBN Direct sells crop protection, fertilizer, seed, animal health, feed and supplies direct-to-farm. FBN Crop Marketing lets members 'review local bids, manage contracts, scale tickets, and even receive payments' with grain buyers. FBN Finance offers land loans, operating lines 'of up to $5 million', equipment loans. Agronomy analytics are benchmarking/seed-performance insights from member data rather than a full field-mapping tool.
| What the AI does | Generic assistant — Norm answers agronomy and farm-management questions; FBN's pages do not state that it reads a member's own records. |
|---|---|
| Crops and regions | US and Canada; 117,000+ member farms, 187M acres (July 2025 release); row crops and livestock |
| Farm size | not published |
What it costs
| Pricing model | Free — free (membership free; fees for certain products/services) |
|---|---|
| Published price | 'Membership is free.' 'Fees may apply for certain product and service offerings other than FBN membership.' (fbn.com, accessed 2026-10-25). Norm pricing not published. |
Quoted as shown on the vendor's page on the access date. Promotional prices are noted separately from list where the vendor showed both. Prices change; verify with the vendor.
Your data
| Who owns it, who sees it | FBN states 'all data provided to FBN always remains the data of the farmer contributing it' and 'FBN has never — and will never — sell member data', nor share it with seed or input companies; member data is anonymized and used in aggregated analytics. |
|---|---|
| Can you leave with it? | ? Data export and deletion terms not yet researched; scheduled for the next review. |
The first line is our paraphrase of the vendor's policy; the linked document in Sources is what governs.
Who is behind it
| Company | Farmer's Business Network, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Ownership | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private |
| What else they sell | part of ag retailer/fintech |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA (US) — San Francisco, CA, USA (2261 Market Street per fbn.com footer; Wikipedia lists San Carlos, CA) |
| Built and supported | US-built; US and Canada support (online, phone, on-farm per fbn.com) |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Funding and acquisitions | Founded 2014 by Amol Deshpande and Charles Baron; Series D $110M (2017, T. Rowe Price/Temasek/GV); total raised 'over $900 million' per AgFunderNews (Dec 2023); $50M new funding July 2025 from GV, Temasek, Arteqin, Colle Capital, T. Rowe Price. Valuation not published. |
| Status | Active. July 2025 raise tied to expanding Norm AI into crop marketing, finance and risk management. |
Sources
Accessed on the dates shown. Core offering, pricing and data policy from vendor pages; funding totals from trade press; HQ city differs between vendor footer (San Francisco) and secondary sources (San Carlos); mobile app, weather and equipment-integration capabilities not verified on vendor pages this session.
- FBN homepage (accessed 2026-10-25; supports pricing_model, current_public_price, cap_inputs, cap_grain_marketing, financing)
- FBN Norm (accessed 2026-10-25; supports cap_ai_assistant)
- Learn How FBN Protects Your Data (accessed 2026-10-25; supports data_policy_one_line)
- Does FBN sell my farm's data? (accessed 2026-10-25; supports data_policy_one_line)
- About FBN (accessed 2026-10-25; supports hq_city_state_country)
- FBN secures $50M for AI (July 28, 2025) (accessed 2026-10-25; supports funding_acquisitions, crops_regions, Norm description)
- 10 years of Farmers Business Network (AgFunderNews) (accessed 2026-10-25; supports founded_year, founders, total funding)
- Farmers Business Network (Wikipedia) (accessed 2026-10-25; supports HQ discrepancy, 2017 Series D)
Change log
- Initial listing from Phase 1 research.
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