The AgGateway annual meeting last month in Clearwater, Florida was a great time for members to get caught up on what the organization has accomplished in the past year.
Chief Technology Officer Jim Wilson says a big focus of AgGateway in the past year has been the growth of the ADAPT Standard, which is being adopted throughout the industry. “We are producing resources that can benefit anybody trying to make data flow better throughout the industry,” said Wilson.
Interview with Jim Wilson (2:27)
AgGateway Portfolio Manager Ben Craker provided an update at the meeting on all things MODUS. “Since AgGateway took over stewardship of that, we’ve been working on updating a bunch of the controlled vocabularies in there,” said Craker. “So the main idea is when you send a soil sample into a lab, you know exactly what test the lab used to get the results for how much phosphorus was in your soil. That way when you come back three years later, you make sure you’re getting an apples-to-apples comparison.”
Craker says they just this year kicked off a working group on Field Operations Controlled Vocabulary. “Everybody’s got their own crop list, nobody’s is the same. One combine might call it maize, one combine might call it corn. Then you got different levels of specificity in there. We came up with a way to really kind of share that crop information and we’re now trying to apply that same component model to field operations,” Craker said.
Learn more in this interview.
AgGateway Portfolio Manager Ben Craker (6:35)
