FNA’s spokesperson says their goal of getting the best possible deal for farmers doesn’t always make them popular with input supply companies
Saskatchewan farmer Jim Mann started Farmers of North America (FNA) in 1998 in a bid to make farming more profitable. Mann rounded up interested farmers and began approaching input supply companies to form mutually beneficial partnerships, by lowering transportation and transaction costs. “And they told him to take a hike,” says Bob Friesen, FNA spokesperson. […] Read moreSeed grower Sarah Weigum’s first time seeding and spraying fababeans taught her a lot of lessons. She’s willing to share
In the April issue of Grainews I wrote about a new adventure on our seed farm — growing fababeans. Now it’s the first week of July and the beans have begun to flower. We picked up our fababean seed from Benci’s Seed Farm on April 30. Ideally we would have planted them before then, but […] Read more
