Farmers Business Network API
FBN exposes its farmer network only through member web and mobile apps; there is no public API or developer portal. Data flows in from John Deere, CNH and file uploads, but nothing documented flows out. With 117,000+ farms, that is a large, closed system of record.
Frequently asked questions
Farmers Business Network scores F on Supergood's API Report Card. FBN exposes its farmer network only through member web and mobile apps; there is no public API or developer portal. Data flows in from John Deere, CNH and file uploads, but nothing documented flows out. With 117,000+ farms, that is a large, closed system of record.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Farmers Business Network (FBN) is a San Carlos, California company founded in 2014 by Amol Deshpande and Charles Baron that positions itself as an independent, farmer-to-farmer network.
Independent row-crop and livestock producers in the United States and Canada, skewing toward the roughly 50,000 larger commodity operations growing corn, soybeans, wheat, canola and cotton. A farm creates a free FBN account, maps its fields, and either links John Deere Operations Center or CNH AFS Connect or uploads monitor files each season so FBN can build planting, application and harvest records.
Over 117,000 member farms and 187 million acres in the US and Canada per FBN's July 28, 2025 announcement, which also cited a Stratus Ag Research survey showing 35% of farmers visited FBN when shopping for inputs.
Field boundaries and farm structure for 187 million acres; planting, application and harvest events parsed from 60+ monitor formats; yield maps and post-calibration edits; scouting notes and geotagged photos; weekly satellite imagery and weather series; seed and chemical invoices and purchase history from FBN Direct; local grain bids, offers, contracts, scale tickets and settlements from partner buyers; Gradable sustainability scores; loan, line of credit and crop insurance records from FBN Finance.
Founded 2014, headquartered in San Carlos, California, with Canadian operations.
Reddit r/farming commenter says FBN pricing is rarely better than local retailers for herbicides, fungicides and insecticides and that its yield information is outdated. Reddit r/farming poster (2019) says FBN makes big claims about cheaper seed and inputs but charged $700 a year for the privilege at the time; membership has since become free. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Climate FieldView, John Deere Operations Center, Bushel Farm, Traction Ag, Agworld. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Farmers Business Network is a cloud platform. The vendor hosts it and customers use it through a browser or a vendor-run app, so there is no customer-managed server involved. FBN is a hosted member platform at fbn.com with iOS and Android apps; no on-premises or desktop deployment is offered.
Not that we could find. As of November 2026 there is no official Farmers Business Network MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Farmers Business Network doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.