Participants

Present	Name	Company
	Rachel Garrett
	Rob Bullock	SSI
	Troy Hooper	Co-Alliance
	Jeff Griffeth	Co-Alliance
	Ann Vande Lune	Key Cooperative
	Joe Gifford	Syngenta
	Dave Craft	SSI
	Greg Fish	Growmark
	Christina Whippler	Growmark
	Kate	Growmark
	Julie Matthew	Growmark
	Jim Glynn	Winfield United
	Jennifer Tarr	SSI
	Jacob Crow	Growmark
	Jason Link	Land O'Lakes
	Paul Schrimpf	AgGateway
	Ryan	Syngenta
	Eric Hoefing	Key Cooperative
	Theresa Fitzsimmons	Bayer
	Kim Flaugher	Bayer
	Julie Baughman	Bayer
	Julie Benick	Winfield
	Shawn Hollman	ACS
	Dawn Greer	EFC Systems
	Matt Garcia	Syngenta
	Dan Danford	CNH Industrial
	Denise Foster	EFC Systems
	Liz McGill	CES
	Thomas S	ProAgrica
	Chad Roberston	Stratabuilt
	Aren Bryant	Syngenta
	Julie BArton	Winfield United
		AgVantage software
	Kay Campe	Rosens
	Uriah Paddock	Ceres
	John Adams	Heartland
	Randy Sutherland	Heartland
	Mike Carrabine	International Raw Materials
	Natasha Lilly	The Equity

Terms:

MSA = Moved, Seconded & Approved

Meeting Information

Date	2022-06-13
Time	4:00 pm Chicago
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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:

AgGateway Antitrust Guidelines

Agenda/Minute

	Topic (Leader)	Desired Outcome Sub-topics, supporting documentation, additional resources	Meeting Minutes
1	Welcome, Antitrust and Introduction () 2 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.
2	Minutes Taker () 1 min.	A meeting taker has been selected.	Kimberly.Chauche will take minutes
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4			Reasons for coming: - Reconnect - Learn Energy Meet-Up: - F2F Meeting - 2022 - Product Movement - Receive Product Electronically - Limited Vendors - Enough to Move Forward - Pricing - Manual & Timely - Ideas - Thoughts? - We had a perfect meeting and set of attendees before Covid hit. Countrymark was ready to be part, and it will be difficult to get the big players in the energy world interested. We didn't want to do it virtually. We've re-engaged with Countrymark, and we have the technical and finance people interested now. They aren't part of AgGateway so they don't fully understand what we're trying to do. We've had meetings explaining AgGateway and our overall goals, and they've agreed to move forward. They're working on another project now, but they just don't understand what we're trying to do for the greater good for the entire industry. Uriah and Jeff to meet, and possibly Rob Bullock, to meet with them one on one and get the more engaged with AgGateway as a whole. - Set a meeting date and get it moving. There's a lot of interest, and the work done in seed is easily going to translate to what we want to do in energy. - Early August? - originally going to be held in Indianapolis, and can still be held there. - August and early September are an opportunity to get it done - Pushing much further runs into the start of harvest - One or two days to give room to discuss everything. Very limited number of products, and we may be able to lean on a lot of already existing messages. If we can get started. - People willing to volunteer/available in August or September to meet (Energy controllers, energy leadership would be ideal) - SSI - Key Cooperative -AgVantage -Bushel -Growmark -The Equity -Ceres -Heartland
5			Quick Connect 2022 Quick sit downs to discuss connections will be held in Annual meeting 2022 in Clearwater, Florida. Retailers, Manufactuerers, Distributers, Software Providers, etc involved to start connecting, make more connections, and find out more about partner capabilities. Quick Connect planning session Wednesday June 15 at 8:30am in Skinner C
6			Crop Protection: Unit of Measure Conversions Low Adoption Barcoding/GTIN by Package Size Still have volunteers? Ann - the biggest struggle we have is the GTIN and utilization of the GTIN vs partner's id. If we use the manufacturer's ID, we can't report. We want one seamless transaction with unit of measure code so we can report with the same GTIN number. We are not reporting through Agromine, so we went back to old school Excel. All sales are dumped into an Excel spreadsheet and uploading it through a data dimensions portal which allows us to upload to multiple manufacturers with one spreadsheet. That's the only way that works at this moment. Not all of the manufacturers out there use a standard unit of measure. Some may use ga, g, or gal for gallons. We're constantly having to change something as simple as gallons. It's not standard within the industry or chemical companies. If all the CPP people could use a standard, life would be amazing. What is used for ID? We have to look them up, and our reporting area has a download to find the IDs. Or we look through dropdown lists to find the ID. You can only look at the list as a dropdown. There was an initiative out around AGIIS, and it's gone silent. Where is that? Natasha - I'll be the first to say I have failed to push that initiative. GTIN and application of AGIIS to be utilized to the conversation, and how master data can be utilized in the industry in a functional way pulling from a single resource. Does everyone understand why GTIN works or doesn't work in Seed? It works really well in seed. Because seed is one unit. It's bag or always.. We can tie a GTIN to one case. The retail group has to solve GTIN and subGTINs. Some use GTINs like a UPC. Needed to scan several GTINs, and had to create a cross reference table custom to have all that information. Can more than one number be attached to a GTIN in a system? The data does no good if on either side of the B2B transaction they translate the information differently. I can send pricing based on gallons, and you use jugs, it doesn't work. Do people want to be able to scan a bar code that functions like a GTIN? That's where the variability would be. If you are never going to scan, we can agree on a number and use it. Yes, but the most important thing would be to uniquely identify the product for data. How do you create GTINs for repack? How is it reported back to manufacturer for bulk packing? In most cases the manufacturer wants it repacked and placed under the bulk item number. January 8 call following annual meeting, and nothing has happened since then. Does this also need a face to face kick up meeting? Should it coincide with the Energy meet up since it's some of the same folks? Is anyone willing to do a face to face and sit down to hash out the information for this? Crop Protection manufacturers and retailers. Josh Wall can work on descriptions to send out to people to give them an idea of what the problem is to show what's being done. 2022 Volunteers Bayer Ceres Heartland Growmark SSI Key Cooperative Syngenta Rosens Southern States AgVantage EFC Systems Winfield Co-Alliance The Equity Early August face to face - Follow-up in November for Annual - Maybe February 2023 in Greensboro? If manufacturers can hear from retailers that they want GTINs, it's more likely to be adopted.
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9	Other items ()	Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up	GTINs and GLNs
10	Next Meeting ()	Is there a need for another Meet-Up
11	Adjournment ()	Adjourn	4:57pm Chicago Time

Tasks/Action Items

Who	When Assigned	What	Deadline	Status
Jeff Griffeth		Send out possible dates for face to face meeting to volunteer companies willing to attend

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