# Farmers Business Network

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/farmers-business-network/  
**Website:** https://www.fbn.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 23.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 28.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Farmers Business Network Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Farmers Business Network Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AgTech, Agriculture, Marketplace, Farm Analytics, AI Advisor

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/farmers-business-network/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.