2021-09-21 Ag Retail Meet Up
- Brent Kemp
Participants
| Present | Name | Company |
|---|---|---|
| X | Brent Kemp | AgGateway |
| X | Natasha Lilly | The Equity |
| X | dcraft | SSI |
| X | Greg Fish | GROWMARK |
| X | kristi.block (Unlicensed) | AgGateway |
| X | Josh Wall (Unlicensed) | DXC |
| X | Scott Nieman | Land O'Lakes |
| X | Ann Vande Lune | Key Cooperative |
| X | Bill Vary (Deactivated) | Syngenta |
| X | Mike Terning | Cultura |
| X | Randy Sunderman (Unlicensed) | Heartland Coop |
| X | Darlene Gibson (Unlicensed) | BASF |
| X | Julie Malson (Deactivated) | Co-Alliance |
| X | Ahren Bryant (Unlicensed) | Syngenta |
| X | Greg Baldwin (Unlicensed) | EFC Systems |
| X | Jordan Kuhns | GROWMARK |
| X | Lauren Mealey | Winfield Solutions |
| X | mark.simmons | Yara |
| X | Mark Mohr | Kahler Automation |
Terms:
MSA = Moved, Seconded & Approved
Meeting Information
Date | 2021-09-21 |
Time | 1:30 pm Chicago |
Web | https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/421235453 |
Phone | +1 (571) 317-3116 |
Access Code | 421-235-453 |
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:
Agenda/Minute
Topic (Leader) | Desired Outcome Sub-topics, supporting documentation, additional resources | Meeting Minutes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 5 min. | Welcome the group - review 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. | All welcomed. |
| 2 | Minutes Taker () 1 min. | A meeting taker has been selected. | Brent Kemp will capture notes. |
| 3 | Conference and Quick Connect 2021 Planning Update | The group is aware of current conference plans and has opportunity to ask and have questions answered
| Brent Kemp reviewed current state on conference, sessions, sponsorships and networking opportunities. kristi.block (Unlicensed) reviewed recent conversations from the Quick Connect Task Force, noting that last meeting of the team suggested that there were several manufacturers who were not likely to attend.
All asked to consider nominees for annual awards. |
| 4 | 2022 Proposed Budget and Plan Presentations | The group is aware of communication plan for the 2022 proposed budget and plan | Brent reviewed the current schedule for annual plan and budget presentations, location for post-presentation resources, and feedback process. No questions at this time. |
| 5 | Working Group Updates
| Group understands the status of current working groups and meet up activities pertinent to them. | WG01 - Actual product shipped to grower proved out on Deere, CNH displays. Next work streams will be to better identity product through AIDC tools, imaging, etc., to enable grower to identify product without leaving the cab. WG04 - Work is winding down - MODUS test ID's on soil. Plant tissue still underway. Water management group, legacy MODUS XML roadmap still to be addressed. WG08 - Data Linking group deals with metadata around large data sets, allowing practitioners to make use of data across different domains and/or processes. Ties in to work done in WG01. Canadian work:
Scale ticket meet up: 23 people on call indicating interest in developing a charter and scope of work for scale tickets. Product forecasting: some work taking place between distributor and manufacturer in scoping out a CP product forecast message. Could expand into retail to distributor scope. Pilot anticipated to be complete soon, with meet up to share and potential working group to extend/enhance pilot implementation. |
| 6 | Ideation | Group has opportunity to place new ideas on the floor, discuss, and determine next steps. | Question: is there any work going on in AgGateway on circular economy; i.e., somebody else's waste is someone else's gold. Ag-specific interests in reuse or reprocess of packaging, may be under the umbrella of sustainability. Noted that ASABE had a call recently on this - looking for any insight from attendees on awareness of effort. Information and research links: https://www.asabe.org/TFACS - ACTION: All are asked to review last video of the session; particularly discussion around split crops. Status on Energy:
Question on conference session - do we want a retail specific session pulling out pain points and prioritizing? Yes; been a while since we had a pain point identification/prioritization session. Josh brought up maintenance in AGIIS - products, entities, noted that there's some subscriber maintenance happening that impacts help requests. Some AGIIS education planned for conference, new users highly encouraged to attend. DOC is also developing enhancement roadmap for 2022 - ideas welcome! |
| 7 | Other items () | Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up | No additional items |
| 8 | Next Meeting () | Is there a need for another Meet-Up | Next meet up will be at the annual conference |
| 9 | Adjournment () | Adjourn | Meeting adjourned at 2:21 pm Chicago time |
Tasks/Action Items
| Who | When Assigned | What | Deadline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Parties requested to provide any updates on connectivity to Member Services, Kristi Block or Brent | |||
| All | Parties requested to provide contact names and organizations for retailers, others desired to attend the annual meeting and quick connect | |||