WICHITA, Kan. and SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. SM, the rapidly growing farmer-to-farmer powerhouse providing new technologies and resources for farmers across America, and K·Coe Isom, the leading ag consulting and CPA firm, announce a marketing agreement benefiting both FBN members and customers of K·Coe Isom. Through the agreement, Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. has appointed K·Coe Isom as its exclusive accounting and financial consulting resource in their elite partner and adviser network.
“One of a farmer’s biggest challenges is margins and trying to turn a profit,” says Charles Baron, FBN network co-founder. “The FBN network gives ag producers access to a level playing field and empowers them with independent and unbiased data, manufacturer direct input savings, and powerful new crop marketing opportunities. The expertise that K·Coe Isom can bring FBN members is invaluable, especially during these tough commodity years.”
The FBN network chose K·Coe Isom as their accounting and financial partner because K·Coe Isom shares in the FBN Farmers FirstSM vision to help farmers be more profitable. K·Coe Isom selected the FBN network as its ag data analytics partner given the unparalleled analytics available through the FBN network. A majority of K·Coe Isom and FBN employees are farmers, grew up on farms, or have a deep connection to the land, and this shared passion to protect the future of farming makes the relationship strong and a natural fit.
“K·Coe Isom works ‘policy to plate’ in the ag industry and we maintain a global view when it comes to what impacts ag production. That means we look at everything that affects farm businesses, and then roll up our sleeves to help. Whether it’s on Capitol Hill or in the soil, we give our all to create sustainable and profitable operations for our customers,” says Kathleen Walton, principal and board chairman at K·Coe Isom. “Our relationship with the FBN network adds another unique ingredient to the mix by giving our customers valuable access to exclusive data that helps them run their businesses at an optimal performance level. We are also excited to be able to draw on our deep roots in agriculture to provide FBN members with ag-specific accounting and financial-consulting solutions.”
About Farmer’s Business Network, Inc.
Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. is an independent and trusted farmer-to-farmer network, built by and for farmers. By connecting farmers and their farm information, the FBN network provides farmers powerful agronomic and financial insights, manufacturer direct input savings, credit access, and powerful new crop marketing options. The FBN profit system helps producers realize thousands in added income and savings through combining groundbreaking technology, the wisdom of over 105 million acre-events of real world data from the FBN community of farms, and access to a global commerce network. The FBN network has grown to thousands of farms, from 38 states, across 15 million acres. Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. has offices in San Carlos, California, and a National Operations Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
K·Coe Isom leads, nationally, as consultants and CPAs in the food & agriculture industry that constitutes roughly two-thirds of the firm’s business. The firm is embedded throughout the U.S. food-supply chain, working with producers, input suppliers, processors, packagers, distributors, biofuels, equipment dealers, landowners, ag lenders, and many agencies and policy organizations that support the industry. The firm also has strengths in community banking, construction and real estate development, transportation, and manufacturing. Including its three newest locations in Davis, California and Jackson and Columbia, Missouri, the firm has 21 offices from coast to coast. Visit kcoe.com.
— Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. and K·Coe Isom, LLP
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