Although FNA can never guarantee the lowest prices on inputs or the highest prices on your marketing, it does guarantee to continuously strive to achieve them.

Our research team is constantly looking for ways to improve the products and services available to the members and to give the negotiating team the information required to achieve the best possible results. There is resistance from major agribusiness to deal with farmers that are organized into a collective bargaining force.

When FNA formed, a short four years ago, one of the major problems for producers in the Agriculture Industry was that producers with cash receipts averaging around $100,000 to $150,000 were forced to compete head-to-head with large corporate agribusiness with cash receipts totalling in the billions! No wonder agribusiness was winning the battle, controlling the industry, and stripping producers of much-needed profits. The question was: how could independent producers compete?

Over the past four years, FNA has grown to represent approximately one billion dollars worth of members' cash receipts. As a corporate head office and professional service team working on the side of independent producers, FNA has been taking on the billion dollar bullies and winning! FNA has achieved substantial benefits for its members and is keeping corporate agribusiness more honest. This is how independent producers compete.

Recently, FNA has begun expanding into the United States while continuing to enhance services and increase membership in Canada. Together, Canadian and US producers represent a whopping $360 billion in cash receipts. As producers band together and gain control over input costs as well as combining marketing, the potential for profit becomes endless! Imagine producing a crop that is competitive in the world market without having profit margins pared down or stripped away completely. Take it a step further and have producers collectively brand their products as grown in North America and then pay to have them processed, producers would then own the products sitting in the store shelves! Picture the loaf of bread that is currently worth a measly 2-4 cents to the wheat producer returning instead $1.00 to $1.50. FNA strives to allow the producers to be in control and to receive the lion share of the profits; large corporate agribusiness will be the “little guy.”

The graph shows the combined potential strength of farmers compared to some of the larger agribusiness players. Yes, times are tough in farming however, given the initiative and foresight that has been demonstrated by FNA members, not only do things look good, they look absolutely brilliant for the years to come.