2023-12-14 Crop Nutrition Meet Up
Participants
Present | Name | Company |
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Co-Alliance | ||
Key Cooperative | ||
X | @Greg Fish@Kori Dietz | Growmark |
X | @Joanne.Schehr@Greg Fish | Nutrien Ag Solutions |
SSI | ||
Winfield United | ||
Land O'Lakes | ||
X | @Brent Kemp, @Ben Craker, @Jeremy W Wilson, @Jim Wilson | AgGateway |
Mosaic | ||
ACS | ||
Ever.Ag | ||
ProAgrica | ||
@Kori Dietz, @Tammy Creswell | Simplot | |
Stratabuilt | ||
@Ryan Nusbaum | Koch | |
AgVantage software | ||
X | Uriah Paddock | Ceres |
@Kong K. Ung, @Michael Carrabine, @Larry Li, Grace | International Raw Materials | |
The Equity | ||
X | @Charles Will | Southern States Cooperative |
Terms:
MSA = Moved, Seconded & Approved
Meeting Information
Date | 2023-12-14 |
Time | 10:00 am Chicago |
Web | Crop Nutrition Meet-Up - 14 Dec - 10:00am Chicago (11:00am New York)
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Purpose of meeting: This Crop Nutrition Meet Up will continue development of a charter for a review and refresh of Crop Nutrient Connectivity documentation to include ag retail interests.
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
Working Group Charter - CN Messaging for Ag Retail
Agenda/Minute
Topic (Leader) | Desired Outcome Sub-topics, supporting documentation, additional resources | Meeting Minutes | |
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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. | |
3 | Outstanding Tasks | All outstanding tasks from previous meetings have been reviewed and the group is informed on outcomes. | See task list below. |
4 | Crop Nutrition Messaging for Ag Retail () 45 minutes | All have an opportunity to contribute to charter and scope development.
| Walked through draft charter There are some examples of harmonization documentation produced as a side effect of making sure OAGIS supported all of ChemE/Ag eStandards. Was done to see what was used by ChemE/Ag eStadnards at the XML element and child level to show x maps to y. this was done to confirm all elements were all supported not meant as a real mapping exercise. Can an Ag eStandards confrmant invoice be expressed as a ConnectSpec invoice, in the case where the answer was no, things were added to ConnectSpec, if the answer was yes, victory was decalred and moved to the next This was done by producing the excel expression of the schema and marching through them This was not done in great detail in some aspects, e.g. for an address they did not go through and link the two concepts of city, it was just assumed the two addresses were compatible In some cases one was specific, one was general, there would be note made that they map but note there is something to add for greater specificity. Specific examples would need some research since this activity occurred some time ago Would likely also need to include OrderCreate/OrderResponse needed for customer pickup release number in scope Also likely some need for inventory and sales tracking as well based on requests from some suppliers to understand overhead, managing on-hand through the process Essentially are looking for IAU data but in JSON as a web service Nutrien and Koch are receiving XML, converting to JSON internally, if there were a standard for JSON created with enough interest they would implement JSON Schema is not a requirement for anyone, but is a nice to have. Current communication is via XML Question on how high of a priority aligning Ag eStandard messages with Scale Ticket for a first phase, need to check with a few people who were interested at Annual meeting but were not on today's call (Key, The Equity) CNC implementations are ebMS 2.0 if there are no message changes does it make a difference Current implementation preference is ebMS 2.0 but alternatives are beginning to emerge in practice but not a must have for this effort Some discussion on use of contract as a living document, opportunity to improve manual processes? Digging into retail specific process seems to be the highest priority from discussions so far, documenting retailer-facing processes and extensions for CNC messages Some interest in sharing PMR, IAU for fertilizer with a few suppliers providing incentives from EDI similar to seed/chemical ATFI/ARA created the "Model Fertilizer Contract", updated July this year, intended to be printed, signed contract https://www.aradc.org/news/model-fertilizer-contract-your-toolkbox It is being used in the industry, provides some benefits, don't rely on XML to track the execution of the contract but to sync information. It serves a purpose to clarify risk in the industry but may not have any implications for this project Question about if anyone is updating Marilyn's list of messages, versions used by member companies. Handy to understand use of different messages. Have moved to self reported profiles, but do get questions about updating that sheet again |
5 | Matters Arising () 5 minutes | Discuss any additional items that came up during meeting that need to be addressed in another meet-up | |
6 | Next Meeting () | Is there a need for another Meet-Up | Plan to reconvene Jan 18, 2024 at the same time after following up with retailers not on today Agenda to review final charter, prepare call to participate and schedule work sessions General feedback in Nashville was fewer longer meetings probably will not work, especially as spring hits for fertilizer, stick with traditional hour sessions for ~8 weeks was consensus on the call as well |
7 | Adjournment () | Adjourn | adjourned 10:56 am US Central time |
Tasks/Action Items
Who | When Assigned | What | Deadline | Status |
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Brent Kemp | Nov 14, 2023 | Review to see if chem e standards exist for Scale Ticket | Dec 13, 2023 | There is no Chem eStandard/Ag eStandard scale ticket message. Is there any concern or implication in differing schemas for implementing messaging? |