National Post

SILICON VALLEY AG STARTUP TAKING PRICE DATA TO CANADA

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A Silicon Valley farm- data company is making a push into Canada in an effort to offer growers more price transparen­cy on input costs for crops like canola. Farmers Business Network signed up 200 farms across the Prairies since January and expects several hundred more to join this year, said Charles Baron, the company’s co-founder and vice-president of product who’s a former program manager at Google. The service lets growers share details on farm data including seed performanc­es and chemical prices. “Farmers are incredibly disadvanta­ged in terms of the informatio­n they have and their relative commercial power in the market,” Baron said in a telephone interview from San Carlos, Calif. “It levels the playing field for farmers.” The company has hired a team of 11 people in Canada with offices in Calgary.

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