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Protect grain sales against non-payment

The FNA's Market Power Assurance program can insure you potentially risky sales

By Leeann Minogue November 18, 2015

While the Farmers of North America’s forays into fertilizer production (Project N) and distribution (Genesis) have been getting a lot of attention, the FNA have also launched another program that might be useful on your farm. The FNA’s Market Power Assurance program protects farmers when the buyer does not pay. “It’s interesting how many farmers you […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Minogue: Farmers sought to get skin in crop input game

By Leeann Minogue, GFM Network News March 27, 2015

Weyburn, Sask. –– Barrie Mann is here to remind about five dozen farmers what their biggest farm expense is. And what he’s proposing to them at this meeting Thursday is a way of “allowing the profits from fertilizer to go back in your bank account.” Most of these same farmers were on hand in October […] Read more

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FNA preparing to push south

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News December 11, 2014

Canadian ag input buying group Farmers of North America (FNA) is going North American. Saskatoon-based FNA and its sister supply organization, AgraCity, said Thursday they now have teams on the ground in three states — North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota — to recruit new FNA members. “When the organization began back in 1999, the name […] Read more

Crops, Markets

CWB takes pass on FNA’s proposal

By GFM Network News October 27, 2014

Ag input buying group Farmers of North America (FNA) says its proposal to buy the grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board has been rebuffed. Saskatoon-based FNA said Monday its proposal — which called for CWB’s assets to become part of an farmer-owned grain handling and fertilizer manufacturing and marketing organization dubbed Genesis […] Read more

AgraCity CFO Derek Penner (centre, with Laurentian Bank Securities vice-president Ty Wirvin (l) and director of investment banking Kevin Hooke) is gauging farmers’ appetite for investment in a new grain handling and fertilizer partnership, ideally by taking control of CWB. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Clock ticking on FNA-led group’s proposed play for CWB

By Lisa Guenther, GFM Network News October 16, 2014

Farmers of North America (FNA) executives are pleading for more time from the federal government to help farmers hammer out a deal to buy the former Canadian Wheat Board. FNA has created a new organization, Genesis Grain and Fertilizer LP, to build a farmer-owned grain handling and fertilizer sales and distribution company. As of Tuesday, […] Read more

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Protect grain sales against non-payment

Minogue: Farmers sought to get skin in crop input game

FNA preparing to push south

CWB takes pass on FNA’s proposal

Clock ticking on FNA-led group’s proposed play for CWB

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