Rising farmer network hopes to shake up Big Ag

by | Dec 14, 2016 | 5 Ag Stories, News

by Ben Nuelle

A Pella farmer says an up and coming network of farmers is a game-changer for agribusiness.

Dennis Bogaards is a member of Farmers Business Network.

?What first attracted me to Farmers Business Network was the analytics and the data. We spend a lot of money to collect data, yield information and planting information and all this. As I looked at the way we were using information, I wasn?t really satisfied with what we were using to interpret it and how we were looking at it and I just wanted more.?

Bogaards says that is what first brought him to FBN.

?They are looking at information in a different way than we have in the past. It?s always been we printed off a pretty-colored yield map and look at and go ?Yeah we had some bad spots and poor spots? but there is more to it than that. That is what I really liked about FBN is really digging deeper.?

FBN?s Farmer2Farmer conference wrapped up Wednesday in Omaha.