Farmers Business Network

Farmers Business Network (FBN) is a farmer-to-farmer ag-tech network serving 117,000+ member farms across the U.S. and Canada. Its membership platform pairs the FBN Direct inputs marketplace with seed and farm analytics, crop marketing, agricultural financing, and Norm, an AI agronomy advisor. FBN exposes these as member-facing web and mobile product surfaces; it does not publish a public or partner developer API.

Farmers Business Network publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: FBN Direct Inputs Marketplace, FBN Analytics and Insights, and FBN Crop Marketing. Tagged areas include AgTech, Agriculture, Marketplace, Farm Analytics, and AI Advisor.

Farmers Business Network’s developer surface includes documentation and 6 more developer resources.

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15.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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AgTech Agriculture MarketplaceFarm AnalyticsAI AdvisorData Farming

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Composite quality — 15.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 6.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Contract Quality scores 32.1 — up to +17.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agriculture and Food (Farm Data, Nutrition)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

FBN Direct Inputs Marketplace

FBN Direct is the member-facing ecommerce marketplace offering 7,200+ crop protection, seed, fertilizer, livestock, and farm supply products at transparent pricing with direct-t...

FBN Analytics and Insights

FBN Insights and seed analytics deliver personalized benchmarking, seed performance analysis, and crowdsourced agronomic data from the network. Delivered as a member-facing prod...

FBN Crop Marketing

FBN Crop Marketing lets members review local bids, manage contracts, track scale tickets, and receive payments through a technology platform. Delivered as a member-facing produc...

FBN Finance

FBN Finance offers agricultural operating lines, equipment and land loans, refinancing, and crop insurance to member farms. Delivered as a member-facing product surface; no publ...

Norm AI Advisor

Norm is FBN's LLM-based AI agronomy advisor, answering members' questions on seed selection, crop protection, pest and disease management, irrigation, fertilization, and rotatio...

FBN Member Platform

The fbn.com member application - account, farm, and field management plus access to agronomy insights, pricing transparency, and marketplace ordering. Member-only product, not a...

NOT AN API

FBN Analytics

Precision-agronomy product that ingests planting, application, and harvest data from 60+ precision monitor types, normalizes it, and benchmarks performance across the FBN networ...

FBN Direct Marketplace

Direct-to-farmer e-commerce marketplace for crop inputs - seed, crop protection, adjuvants, and animal health - with transparent pricing and direct-to-farm delivery. Member-only...

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Farmers Business Network API

OPEN COLLECTION

Farmers Business Network API pricing

Not yet checked against Farmers Business Network's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-20 from www.fbn.com/signup/free-membership; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free Membership free	—
FBN Direct Purchases usage	—
FBN Finance and Services usage	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Farmers Business Network Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Farmers Business Network Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Farmers Business Network Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Farmers Business Network Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: farmers-business-network
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/farmers-business-network/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Farmers Business Network
kind: company
description: Farmers Business Network (FBN) is a farmer-to-farmer ag-tech network serving 117,000+ member farms across the
  U.S. and Canada. Its membership platform pairs the FBN Direct inputs marketplace with seed and farm analytics, crop marketing,
  agricultural financing, and Norm, an AI agronomy advisor. FBN exposes these as member-facing web and mobile product surfaces;
  it does not publish a public or partner developer API.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/farmers-business-network.png
tags:
- AgTech
- Agriculture
- Marketplace
- Farm Analytics
- AI Advisor
- Data
- Farming
tags_raw:
- AgTech
- Agriculture
- Marketplace
- Farm Analytics
- AI Advisor
- Data
- API
- Farming
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: farmers-business-network:fbn-direct-inputs-marketplace
  name: FBN Direct Inputs Marketplace
  tags:
  - Marketplace
  - Inputs
  - E-Commerce
  tags_raw:
  - Marketplace
  - Inputs
  - Ecommerce
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/direct
  properties:
  - url: https://www.fbn.com/direct
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/farmers-business-network-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: FBN Direct is the member-facing ecommerce marketplace offering 7,200+ crop protection, seed, fertilizer, livestock,
    and farm supply products at transparent pricing with direct-to-farm delivery. Delivered as a web and mobile product surface;
    no public developer API is documented.
- aid: farmers-business-network:fbn-analytics
  name: FBN Analytics and Insights
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Benchmarking
  - Seed
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/insights
  properties:
  - url: https://www.fbn.com/insights
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/farmers-business-network-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: FBN Insights and seed analytics deliver personalized benchmarking, seed performance analysis, and crowdsourced
    agronomic data from the network. Delivered as a member-facing product surface; no public developer API is documented.
- aid: farmers-business-network:fbn-crop-marketing
  name: FBN Crop Marketing
  tags:
  - Crop Marketing
  - Grain
  - Contracts
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/crop-marketing
  properties:
  - url: https://www.fbn.com/crop-marketing
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/farmers-business-network-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: FBN Crop Marketing lets members review local bids, manage contracts, track scale tickets, and receive payments
    through a technology platform. Delivered as a member-facing product surface; no public developer API is documented.
- aid: farmers-business-network:fbn-finance
  name: FBN Finance
  tags:
  - Finance
  - Lending
  - Insurance
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/finance
  properties:
  - url: https://www.fbn.com/finance
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/farmers-business-network-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: FBN Finance offers agricultural operating lines, equipment and land loans, refinancing, and crop insurance
    to member farms. Delivered as a member-facing product surface; no public developer API is documented.
- aid: farmers-business-network:norm-ai-advisor
  name: Norm AI Advisor
  tags:
  - AI Advisor
  - Agronomy
  - LLM
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/norm
  properties:
  - url: https://www.fbn.com/norm
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/farmers-business-network-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Norm is FBN's LLM-based AI agronomy advisor, answering members' questions on seed selection, crop protection,
    pest and disease management, irrigation, fertilization, and rotation. Free for registered members and delivered through
    FBN's web and mobile apps; no public developer API is documented.
- aid: farmers-business-network:member-platform
  x-published: false
  name: FBN Member Platform
  description: The fbn.com member application - account, farm, and field management plus access to agronomy insights, pricing
    transparency, and marketplace ordering. Member-only product, not a public API.
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/
  tags:
  - Member
  - Farm Management
  properties:
  - type: Information
    url: https://www.fbn.com/
- aid: farmers-business-network:analytics
  name: FBN Analytics
  description: Precision-agronomy product that ingests planting, application, and harvest data from 60+ precision monitor
    types, normalizes it, and benchmarks performance across the FBN network. Surface is the FBN member app; underlying integrations
    include John Deere Operations Center and CNH AFS Connect.
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/analytics/data-storage-integration
  baseURL: https://www.fbn.com/analytics/data-storage-integration
  tags:
  - Precision Agriculture
  - Data Integration
  - Analytics
  tags_raw:
  - Precision Ag
  - Data Integration
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Information
    url: https://www.fbn.com/analytics/data-storage-integration
- aid: farmers-business-network:marketplace
  name: FBN Direct Marketplace
  description: Direct-to-farmer e-commerce marketplace for crop inputs - seed, crop protection, adjuvants, and animal health
    - with transparent pricing and direct-to-farm delivery. Member-only ordering surface.
  humanURL: https://www.fbn.com/direct
  baseURL: https://www.fbn.com/direct
  tags:
  - Marketplace
  - Inputs
  - E-Commerce
  properties:
  - type: Information
    url: https://www.fbn.com/direct
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/farmers-business-network-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/farmers-business-network
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fbn.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.fbn.com/community/blog
- type: Plans
  url: plans/farmers-business-network-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/farmers-business-network-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/farmers-business-network-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Farmers Business Network API — frequently asked questions

Does Farmers Business Network have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Farmers Business Network, including FBN Direct Inputs Marketplace, FBN Analytics and Insights and FBN Crop Marketing, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Farmers Business Network API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Farmers Business Network, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Farmers Business Network API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Farmers Business Network, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Farmers Business Network API ready for AI agents?

Farmers Business Network has a Kin Score of 15.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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