2020-07-21 Ag Retail Connectivity Meet Up

2020-07-21 Ag Retail Connectivity Meet Up

 Participants

Present

Name

Company

Present

Name

Company

X

@Brent Kemp

AgGateway

X

Randy Fry

Ceres Solutions

X

@Dan Berne (Unlicensed)

AgGateway

X

Sampath

Land O'Lakes

X

@Greg Fish

GROWMARK

X

@Donahue Charles H (Deactivated)

John Deere

X

Ben Sloan

EFC Systems

X

Julie Benick

WinField

X

Lauren Mealey

Land O'Lakes

X

Bob Walters

FieldWatch

X

Jessie Rexroat

The Equity

X

Lynda Pemberton

SSI/Agvance

X

Denice Foster

EFC Systems

X

Scott

 

X

Uriah Paddock

Ceres Solutions

Terms:

MSA = Moved, Seconded & Approved

 Meeting Information

 Date

2020-07-21

 Time

1:30 pm Chicago

 Web

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/373108197

 Phone

+1 (571) 317-3116

 Access Code

373-108-197

Purpose of meeting: The Ag Retail Meet Up will inform members on the state of current work; identify industry pinch points that can benefit from process improvement, standards implementation, or both; and offer an opportunity for idea generation and collaboration.

Participants will benefit through increased understanding of industry capability and readiness to act; opportunity to offer input and provide direction on active and anticipated collaborative efforts.

Documents:

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Desired Outcome


Sub-topics, supporting documentation, additional resources

Meeting Minutes

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Meeting Minutes

1

Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 5 min.

Welcome the group -

All were welcomed. All agreed to abide by antitrust guidelines

2

Minutes Taker () 1 min.

A meeting taker has been selected.

@Brent Kemp will capture notes

3

Covid Lessons Learned - pinch points, needs and solutions

Group has opportunity to share issues that have been identified during the past four months; content is captured and prioritized as applicable.

Introduced Mural to participants. Captured observations for future consideration and potential action as applicable.

4

Unique identification in Crop Protection Messaging () 

Group has opportunity to discuss and begin to develop a plan for addressing unique identification of products in crop protection messages.

Reiterated the pinch point: same product is received from manufacturer and another distributor, but multiple identifiers are received/in use. Can we have a sharable cross reference table stored in an external resource?

+1

Catch question - can a distributor post manufacturer information? Needs to have authority; must be "right" information

Literally just a cross reference of product identifiers in use in common for same product

ACTION - @Brent Kemp to follow up with DOC leadership to find out if they are planning any follow up from Virtual MYM discussion; will report back and develop next steps.

5

Planning for a 2020 Partner Implementation Meeting () 

Document next steps

Discussion on challenges with virtual:

  • Ease of interruption

  • Difficulty building new relationships, trust

Observation that most are used to virtual in some form or fashion now, is now the time to push  B2B again?

  • Sense is yes, the market is ready

  • Next step - market again? Afternoon seminar tying the work done to date to current issues experienced? Put together a proposal for ARA and/or ASTA to help promote and get some discussion going again. 

  • Would need to be ready to help people out of the gate 

    • What's possible

    • How to

ACTION - Schedule quick call to dive into this a little deeper; reach out to ARA and ASTA to see about setting up a joint call for proposing the presentations and to assist with marketing and communication.

6

Updates on New Messages uptake () 

Document next steps

Not addressed due to time.

7

Other items () 

Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up

Randy reviewed the Traceability initiative's work with retailer to grower data exchange for seed sold and planted. Good engagement from participants; hope to have more to show soon; waiting on some funding to come through. Exciting to see that new path for data movement.

8

Next Meeting ()

Is there a need for another Meet-Up

Next meeting would be 15 September keeping with bi-monthly, third Tuesday - agreement to this cadence

9

Adjournment ()

Adjourn

Meeting adjourned at 3:30 pm New York/2:30 pm Chicago

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