Agenda and Minutes

Main Topics

Use decide tag for any decisions taken

1. Drivers

   1. Topic Leader: @Ben Craker

   2. The desired outcome is that the audience reviews the drivers that are generating interest for improved data interoperability within animal agriculture

   3. Pre-meeting notes and references:

   4. Minutes:

2. Second Main Topic

   1. Topic Leader: @Ben Craker

   2. The desired outcome is that existing AgGateway resources are reviewed that may be relevant to animal agriculture.

   3. Pre-meeting notes and references:

   4. Minutes:

3. Second Main Topic

   1. Topic Leader: @Ben Craker

   2. The desired outcome is that the group discusses what if anything it would make sense for AgGateway to work on with regard to animal agriculture.

   3. Pre-meeting notes and references:

   4. Minutes:

      1. Getting rations from a nutrition into mixing systems

      2. Streamlining ingredients to feed manufacturer data exchange

      3. ISO SAG livestock group

         1. Livestock activities data management was an open space

            1. Feeding, movement, diseases, etc.

         2. No equivalent to “SPADE” for livestock

            1. Gets a little difficult to manage depending on species, e.g a cow vs a flock of chicken

         3. Need to exchange data between crop and livestock management systems

            1. GHG re[porting and credits for diverting a product not fit for human consumption to animals, or utilizing manure instead of commercial fertilizer

         4. Medications, using GLN, GTIN for reporting

            1. May be an opportunity, Brent has done some work

      4. By species would be

         1. Beef, Dairy, and swine

      5. EU regulations

         1. Sustainability reporting

         2. Pork checkoff built a tool to calculate

         3. NHTC schedules slaughtering time frames based on different practices

            1. Unfunded mandate, results in no ROI on the effort needed to switch practices at the processing plant

         4. Likely need some sort of mechanism to easily/efficiently report on practices to be able to participate in export markets

      6. For sustainability reporting at scale, likely need standards to make it economical to report the amount, or number or parameters to determine sustainability scores

         1. Currently the market wants outcomes, but the producers are footing the bill without really being compensated

      7. Three areas of interest

         1. Feed, where is it procured from

            1. Credit/documenting farms producing their own feed vs. trucking it in

            2. Especially as operations are moving from their traditional locations to new areas of the country

         2. Animal tracking, backgrounder → feedlot → processor etc.

         3. Product methods, grass feed vs feedlot and how the situation changes for a given animal thought its lifecycle

            1. Taking fuel out of beef, animals start in the north and move south, then sometimes come back slightly north

      8. Should be areas of common interest across segments/animals

         1. Feed, manure

      9. decide Creating a advisory group on animal ag to meet one every month or two makes sense

         1. Look into if there are other trade associations or other bodies we could talk to

         2. Talk to AEM Diary group

Closing Topics