Farmers Business Network (FBN) has announced the spin-off of its crop protection sourcing and logistics subsidiary, now an independent entity named Global Crop Solutions (GCS), a strategic move designed to enhance growth and service for both companies in their respective markets. FBN will now focus on expanding its operations as an open, asset-light digital marketplace, providing its more than 120,000 farmer members with farm inputs and supplies, financial services, and data-driven intelligence. Concurrently, GCS launches as an independent supplier of crop protection products, utilizing its extensive registration portfolio to serve wholesale and retail agricultural channels, including offering its products on the FBN marketplace. This separation allows FBN to sharpen its mission: to enhance the profitability of family farms by serving as a leading digital one-stop shop for goods, services, capital, and insights. GCS, now independent, is positioned to become a primary supplier to all retailers, cooperatives, and distributors, free from previous channel constraints. Diego Casanello, CEO of FBN, stated, “This separation marks a pivotal moment for FBN, allowing us to operate as a pure technology platform dedicated to bringing farmers more choice, savings, and convenience. By digitalizing the distribution and retail of goods, capital, and services and opening our network to more sellers and financial partners, we are solving one of the hardest problems for innovators in ag: cost-efficient market access to the farm gate.” FBN and GCS will maintain a strategic commercial relationship. GCS will continue as a key seller on the FBN marketplace, ensuring FBN members retain access to trusted brands like Willowood USA® while providing GCS with continued access to FBN’s high-growth digital channel. The newly focused FBN will accelerate its transition to a capital-efficient, marketplace-style digital platform. This platform addresses the critical “cost-to-serve” challenge for third-party sellers and innovators, granting them direct access to FBN’s network of over 120,000 farmers, who collectively represent more than 190 million acres. Sellers can leverage FBN’s platform to self-manage placement, pricing, and promotion, giving them direct control over their marketing channels and providing direct-to-farm delivery services. FBN offers a growing range of supplies and inputs essential for farmers and ranchers, alongside services in lending, sustainability, and crop marketing. GCS launches with one of the agricultural industry’s largest portfolios of post-patent crop protection products, including over 250 registrations in the U.

S. and Canada. Operating an efficient, asset-light model, GCS is prepared to serve the entire agricultural retail industry as a reliable wholesale and private-label partner. Amy Yoder, CEO of GCS, commented, “Global Crop Solutions launches today as an independent powerhouse. For the first time, our extensive portfolio and efficient global supply chain are fully available to all partners— from retailers, to distributors, to co-ops. Our independence unlocks immense growth potential and allows us to be the most reliable and collaborative partner to the entire agricultural industry.”