Arcadia Biosciences and Farmer's Business Network Inc. announce partnership for Arcadia's GoodWheat
Collaboration will scale-up grower base for identity preserved specialty wheat varieties and improve grower economics
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural food ingredient company, and Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. (FBN), the independent farmer-to-farmer network, have announced a partnership to expand the grower base of Arcadia’s family of specialty wheat varieties, GoodWheat. This new collaboration enables the FBNDirect inputs platform to distribute Arcadia’s identity-preserved GoodWheat seeds to growers in its network, aiming to increase farmer profitability over commodity wheat.
This agreement is a critical milestone in the development of Arcadia’s supply chain and its ability to scale its specialty wheat production to meet the demand anticipated following commercial launch in 2019. The FBN network has been rapidly growing its analytics, agricultural inputs distribution infrastructure, farmer member base and geographical reach, now representing over 24 million acres in the United States and Canada.