Farmers of North America ("FNA") is a volume-buyer group, incorporated in March 1998 by a rural Saskatchewan farm family, with the intention of increasing the profitability of the small farmer. The organization has now grown over 7500 producers representing more than 12,000,000 acres (49,000 km2) in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan Manitoba, and Ontario, with requests from as far as Brazil to join. In the spring of 2009, the organization entered into Quebec to offer competitive prices for fertilizers as compared to the high prices of traditional sellers.
Their programs range from fertilizers, animal health products and feeds, grain storage and handling equipment, fencing, agricultural leasing, oils, lubricants and tires and management services.
The company is noted for reviving moribund ports as a way to cheaply import fertilizers from Russia to compete with North American fertilizers which they see as overpriced by predatory sellers. Two examples include the Port of Churchill in Churchill, Manitoba and the port of Wallaceburg, Ontario.
FNA is not a cooperative. It is a privately owned for-profit company. It describes itself as "a farmers' business alliance with the mission of 'Improving Farm Profitability.'"
In 2012, FNA announced it has formed a limited partnership, FNA Fertilizer Limited Partnership or FNA FLP, with the intension of building a new nitrogen fertilizer plant in Western Canada.
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