Participants

All Members List
(present or not present)

Members Present

Non-Members Present

@Paul Schrimpf (Director of Communications & Marketing)
@Nikki Marshall (AgGateway Member Services)
@Jessica Trites Rolle (*National Crop Insurance Services)
Ben Craker (Portfolio Manager)
@Nathan Huffines (Syngenta)
@Erica Ohl (SSI)

- @Paul Schrimpf (Director of Communications & Marketing)
- @Erica Ohl
- @Nikki Marshall

- @Leslie Hedges

Elliott Nowels (non-member)

(*Voting companies/** alternates)

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#	Topic / Leader	Discussion Points	Meeting Minutes
0	Welcome
1	Antitrust / @Paul Schrimpf	Read antitrust statement: “In all of AgGateway’s operations and activities, it must avoid discussions or conduct that might violate applicable antitrust laws, or even appear to do so. To that end, AgGateway has established antitrust guidelines, which it has provided to each participant in this meeting. While it is your ultimate responsibility to ensure that your actions comply with applicable antitrust laws, your participation in this meeting is affirmation that you will abide by AgGateway’s guidelines.” AgGateway Antitrust Guidelines	n/a; agreed upon conference sign-in


2	On the Docket	Annual Meeting and Conference Registration at 106 … still lagging 2024 Hotel deadline is 10/13 – official end is 10/20 Sponsor Thank You Social Posts 2025 ANNUAL MEETING SPONSOR BANNERS - Google Drive Agenda focused on education sessions vs working sessions AI --Tami Craig Shilling and Preston Fay Confirming Mary Kay Thatcher to talk on regulatory and government issues with ag tech (Formerly Syngenta) Beer and Bull session, all new (Tuesday) Elliott Nowels working on a 20th anniversary video, will premiere at Tuesday general session at conference LOGO and TAGLINE “Building the Future on Two Decades of Achievement” Link to Web Page Inside AgGateway Webinar Series \| Regular, Targeted Project/WG Overviews Field Boundary (March, 55 live attendees) Scale Ticket (May, 30 live attendees) ADAPT (June 24, 1 central) Modus (July 17, 10 central, 20 live attendees Data Ethics White Paper (August 28, 13 live attendees) NEXT - Agrisemantics and the impact of AI - October 15. Details to come (42 registered so far) We may do a live version at Annual Conference Gateway to Ag Careers Six Recipients Named, release soon Website Comm Committee to review progress at Conference Etc. Social Media Sked, May-June (by Week of) 9/15- Paul 9/22 - Paul 9/29 - Nikki 10/6 - Erica	Reviewed new website 2025 recap Members talked a lot about Mary Kay Thatcher’s session, need to look at more sessions like that.
3	Resources & Relationships


4	Newsletter Planning	Newsletter Articles - November Issue Deadline: 10/23/2025 Title/Author From the President – Brent Portfolio – Ben AGIIS/Member Services - Chris/Nikki Annual Conference News

5	New Business
	Other Discussion Items	For other committee members to address topics not covered above.
6	Meeting Wrap Up
	Next Meeting	Thursday 11 December , 2:00pm Central
	Adjournment		Logos: Final 20th Anniversary logo - Google Drive

Active Action Items

Date Assigned	Action Item	Due Date	Comments/Status
Jun 10, 2025	@Leslie Hedges	Jun 11, 2025	send Paul invite to prospects meeting with Conny, Loyola, and Jeremy
Jun 10, 2025	@Nikki Marshall @Leslie Hedges		invite Paul to member check-in meetings
Jun 10, 2025	@Nikki Marshall	Jun 18, 2025	Contact former MLI to see if they know any university contacts to work on GTAC

2025-11-04 Communications Committee Meeting at Annual Conference

Participants