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Meeting 12

Meeting 12

Owned by Ben Craker
2025-04-01
3 min read

Session 1

@Stuart Rhea , Jean Walsh, Conny Graumans, Graham Mullier, Ben Craker, Hiroyuki Morita, Roberto Garcia, Patricia Perez

Stuart combined some slides from the plenary into one deck that now provides an artifact if anyone needs to explain what this group is working on

Working through refinements

  • Believe cultivar/variety will require some sort of hierarchical to pare the list down (where relevant)

    • e.g. fuji apple

    • However in some instances user may not care what type of apple

    • Believe this makes most sense as an attribute of the crop

      • Applies to both the planted material and the harvested commodity

      • This is one litmus test on how to think about this, if it applies to both the seed and harvested commodity it likely makes sense to be on the crop

  • Important to distinguish the crop, crop is a object of both the genetic material planted as well as the commodity harvested

    • Sustainability also pushing this to a broader ex tenet, silviculture (including trees with field corps)

    • Discussion on using multiple taxa on a single crop (example of wild flower mix of seeds)

      • NL doing this but require that it is seeded at the same time

      • Do differentiate that a single crop is used when one crop is seeded and a second crop planted a month later to begin growing after the first is harvested

  • Also need to keep in mind situations where multiple species are grown together (grass and a clover for forage)

  • Food and Feed Commodity Vocabulary | US EPA

  • Breeding type is a smaller group

    • Not clear if this is an appropriate refinement for crop

    • Biggest relevance is genetic modification

      • Do have GMO flag later, but this is becoming less binary with new technologies

  • Genetic modification

    • This carries a legislative/regulatory aspect

    • Some authorities are differentiating between gene editing and trans-genetic modification

  • Intended Use/Crop use/Product Use

    • Expected that this would need to be limited by type of crop originally

    • However with examples found, not sure that is needed

      • e.g. corn for silage is animal feed, whole plant

      • This might be better than having crop specific intended use refinement

    • Keep in mind the expected use may change over the season if something happens, meaning actual use is different from intended use

    • Likely need to break food down a little more into fresh-pack, processed, etc.

  • Crop category/type (commodity group)

    • Cereal grains, etc.

      • Also includes who controls/manages the grouping e.g. FAO

    • Crop relationship object likely already covers this, so do not need it as a refinement category

      • Conny agreed with Stuart on this

    • Will be interesting to see as this is stood up if people will do the work to come in and attach all the definitions to the groups, or if people will point out something is not included and ask for it to be fixed, vs. contributing

      • Really hope people will contribute and not just expect modifications/additions to be made for them

      • Would be good to determine if there is a base list that should be included from the start?

  • Processing / preservation state

    • Could combine this use

    • Do not yet have a clear line on where the crop ends and the produce/product starts

    • discussed hail damaged apples scenario

      • Started out as food, fresh, hail damaged no longer “pretty” and moved to dried, juiced, pressed/canned

        • Changes where that line might be for that particular apple

      • Very difficult to specify where that transition happens

      • This can affect risk management/insurance, also crop protection products - pre-harvest interval

      • In order to automate crop protection product selection, need to understand at time of execution of a field operation, need to know that the harvested material will/is planned to be

        • Important transition from field operation to supply chain that is kind of fuzzy on when it happens

        • This also brings in things that happen to harvested material after it leaves the field, e.g. treating a pile of potatoes

  • Part of the plant

    • EPPO does have codes to break down the parts of a plant, need to review to see how well it matches the items in the slide

    • One additional option may be baby leaf vs adult leaf

      • Is it a plant part or a plant maturity

      • For some vegetables it is a baby leaf until there are 9 leaves on the plant

  • Physical Color

    • Believe there is an existing color list from GS1 or some other source

  • Lifecycle/growing cycle

  • Seasonality

    • Spring/winter wheat

    • Long/short day onions

  • Cultivation environment

    • Field, greenhouse, etc.

  • Production practices/certification

    • Certified organic, irrigated, etc.

  • Do not believe this is a complete list of refinements, or a complete set of refinements

    • Plan to change to an excel sheet with a different tab for each refinement type

    • Can use to provide an initial set of crops and initial

      • list of refinements to submit with the form 4 proposal

Session 2

 

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