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AgGateway Projects Overview

MYM – Johnston, IA June 19,2013 Marilyn Hunter Enabling Services Director

Covering Today

• Introductions
• What is a Project?
• Changes in how we will be conducting projects in the

future

• High level overview and update of current projects
• Panel discussion with Project Board Chairs
• Q&A with panel

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Introductions

• Name
• Company
• Has your company been involved in projects?
• If yes, which ones?
• Which project(s) are you most interested in

hearing about today?

• What session have you enjoyed the most so far

at the MYM?

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What is a Project?

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Projects and Initiatives in AgGateway

• General Definition of a Project
• A temporary endeavor undertaken to create or significantly improve a

unique product or service that addresses a specific business need and provides specific deliverables.

• Projects in AgGateway
• An initiative that is defined and chartered by one or more Industry

Segment Councils,

• funded by the participants from those councils,
• has a goal of improving a specific area of business in which the project

participants conduct business.

• Usually accomplished by adapting, adopting, or creating an industry

standard(s) that utilize information and communication technologies.

• We refer to these types of projects as “Council Projects” or “AgGateway

sponsored projects”.

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Projects and Initiatives in AgGateway

• AgGateway initiatives
• “Projects” that the organization itself takes on to increase the value of

AgGateway to its members in general.

• Chartered and initiated by the board of directors, management team, or
• ne of the standing committees
• Funded by the AgGateway general fund or a special fund created for the

purpose of improving an AgGateway asset or service.

• Examples of council projects are:
• CNC II
• SC II
• SPADE
• PAIL
• Examples of AgGateway initiatives are:
• The Future Vision Task Force Initiative
• The Standards Harmonization Initiative

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How We Conduct Projects?

• Conceptual
• Member(s) presents project idea to

appropriate Council

• Council appoints a Task Force (TF)
• TF develops charter & value proposition
• MT reviews and approves charter
• TF presents t charter o Council
• Approval
• Council approves charter
• Council appoints governing body (GB)
• Enabling Services Director (ESD) notifies
• ther councils of project and whether

project is possibly cross council project

• Plan
• GB validates charter and tweaks
• GB educates the industry on the value

and benefits

• GB determines funding, commitment

letter and timing of project

• GB sends out and receives commitment

letter

• Design
• Project participants determine the

requirements, reviews or develops standards based on requirements (gap analysis)

• Business/Technical team (B/T) develops

business use cases

• B/T determines business rules for

implementation

• Implementation
• B/T develops, tests and implements

standards in collaborative environment

• B/T resolve issues and determine and

enhance business rules

• Wrap Up
• Project Coordinator provides the

documentation for others to be able to implement

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Project Stages – Proposed Stages

• Concept
• The idea captured
• Group consensus
• Communications
• Evaluation
• The idea debated and improved
• Project timeline, High-level
• Relevant
• Communications
• Charter
• The Project formalized in the approved

template

• Project Mgt. & participant resources

assigned

• Mgt Team reviews, Council Approval,

BOD informed

• Communications
• Active Work
• Communications
• Collaborative Effort applied towards Project

goals

• Initial Documentation
• Implementation
• Communications, Education, Training
• Timeline & Usage of deliverables
• Post-Project
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Communications
• Published Documentation

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Current Projects

• Crop Nutrient Connectivity (CNC-II) – Crop Nutrient

Council

• Seed Connectivity (SC-II) – Seed/Ag Retail Councils
• Tonnage Reporting Project (TRP) – Crop Nutrient/Feed

Councils

• Standardized Precision Ag Data Exchange (SPADE) –

Precision Ag Council

• Precision Ag Irrigation Leadership (PAIL) – Precision Ag

Council

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Approved Projects

• SPADE2 – Precision Ag Council
• Crop Protection Canada Connectivity (CPCC) – Crop

Protection Council

• Auto Identification Data Capture – AIDC – Seed, Ag

Retail and Crop Protection Councils

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Seed Connectivity-II (SC-II) Project

• Segment(s): Joint -Seed & Ag Retail Council Project
• Scope: Booking/Order, Retailer Summary Report, Change

Log, ShipNotice, Invoice, PriceSheet and Sales Reporting (PMR) messages

• Participants: 5 Sellers, 11 Buyers, and 8 Allied Providers (22

companies)

• Sellers: Dow, GROWMARK, Monsanto, Syngenta and Winfield
• Buyers: Central Valley Coop, Ceres Solutions, Co-Alliance, CPS,

GROWMARK, Heartland Coop, Helena, Key Coop, River Valley, Wilbur-Ellis and Winfield

• Allied Providers: AgData, AgWorks, AgVantage, Control

Systems, E-Markets, Global Services, SSI (AgVance) and XS

Seed Connectivity-II (SC-II) Project

Objectives:

• Expand the use of AgGateway eBusiness implementations within the

Seed Council by enabling at least 5 member companies with at least 4 of those companies are trading partners

• Expand the use of AgGateway eBusiness implementations with Ag

Retail Council members, by at least 3 member companies

• Expand the use of AgGateway eBusiness implementation with Allied

Provider Council members by at least 1 member company

• 25% of the targeted connections completed by 12/31/2012, and 80%

completed by 9/1/2013.

• Synchronization of product, entities and licenses with AGIIS directory

and trading partners.

• Improve customer service and achieve response-time improvements

for all participants’ with a post deployment measurement/survey with trading partner.

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Seed Connectivity-II (SC-II) Project

• 2 Phased Project:
• Phase 1 – complete what SC-I did, plus the PriceSheet from the

PCI project, including web services (WS)

• Phase 2 – Booking/Order Process – both ebMS & WS
• Phase 1: 2/2012 – 12/2012 – revised to 6/2013
• Phase 2 9/2012 – 12/2013 – revised to 6/2014
• Progress:
• Completed the Review of Phase 1 and starting the

implementation stage of that Phase – Currently have 29 of the 113 connections completed (26%)

• Schedule in place for Phase 2

Tonnage Reporting Project (TRP)

• Segment: Joint Crop Nutrition & Feed Council Project
• Scope: Standardized format extract for reporting fertilizer and

feed tonnage to state departments – pilot with 3 states and at least 2 CN and 2 Feed members

• Participants:
• Feed: CHS, Land O’Lakes, Mosaic, Southern States and Vita-Plus
• Fertilizer (CN): Ameropa, CF, CPS/Loveland, IRM, Mosaic, Simplot, SSI

(AgVance), Southern States, TKI, and Wilbur-Ellis,

• Associations: Ag Retailers Assoc. (ARA), The Fertilizer Institute (TFI),

America Feed Industry Assoc. (AFIA), American Association Plant Food Control Officials (AAPFCO). American Association Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)

• State Officials: Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina

Tonnage Reporting Project (TRP)

Progress

• Completed the requirements gathering and have received

feedback from some of the state officials in fertilizer.

• Developed the XML schema standard
• Tested the XML standard with Michigan, Pennsylvania, and

South Carolina

• Tweaked the schema – approved by S&G Committee
• Michigan & South Carolina plan to “go live” for the July

reporting with the pilot participants

• AgGateway, TFI have approved “Paperless Tonnage Reporting

by the end of 2016” goal – ARA, AFIA, AAPFCO, AAFCO – all in process of supporting this goal.

Crop Nutrient Connectivity-II (CNC-II)

Purpose: Extension of the original CNC project

• Participants:
• Sellers: Agrium, International Raw Materials (IRM), Mosaic Company, and

Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. (TKI)

• Buyers: Ameropa, CHS, Inc., Crop Production Services (CPS), GROWMARK,

Inc., and Richardson International.

• Scope: Contracts/Response, OrderCreate/Response, ShipNotice,

ShipmentStatus, and Invoice

• Timeline: 3/2011 – 3/2012 – not complete
• Progress: Implementation – currently 11 out of the 102

connections complete (11%).

Standardized Precision Ag Data Exchange (SPADE)

Purpose: Standard field operational (for seed planting) data information for transmission between FMIS to FMIS (including field equipment)

• Participants – 30 participants:
• Ag Connections, Ag Leader Tech, AGCO, AgIntegrated, Agrian, AgWorks, CNH,

CDMS, Ceres, Crop IMS, GEO SYS, Growmark, Heartland Co-op, Hemisphere GPS/Ag Junction, John Deere, MapShots, Monsanto, Premier Crop Systems, Pro Ag Management, Raven Industries, River Valley Cooperative, Southern States Cooperative, SST Software, Syngenta, TopCon Positioning System, Trimble, Wilbur-Ellis, Winfield, XS, ZedX

• Scope: See next slides
• Timeline: 3/2012 – 12/2012 – revised to 6/30/2013
• Progress: Wrapping up – moving to SPADE2
• Project Manager: Jim Wilson

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Standardized Precision Ag Data Exchange (SPADE)

Scope:

• The Seeding Planting Operation
• ISO-11783 parts 10 and 11
• Identify gaps between data requirements and what 11783 supports
• Develop guidelines for use, including addressing gaps, of ISO-

11783 part 10/11 for machine-to-FMIS data exchange

• Provide input to ISO regarding the gaps and how we suggest

addressing them

• Define reference data required to implement/document a

production practice as defined by the scope expressed in the seeding (planting) use cases.

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SPADE – Scope Continued

• AGIIS
• Define the role of the AGIIS database as it relates to seeding use

cases.

• Identify gaps between requirements and the data AGIIS provides as

defined by the role (point 3.1.)

• AgGateway Clearinghouse Concept (API Examples)
• Proof of Concept
• Farming Practice Templates for Compliance Reporting - Define

scope more granularly

• USDA NRCS - Define scope more granularly (e.g., pulling data

from NRCS vs pushing data to them)

• Machine-to-FMIS data exchange
• FMIS-to-FMIS data exchange

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Standardized Precision Ag Data Exchange (SPADE)

• Objectives:
• Understand AgGateway’s standards and guidelines development process.

Propose any changes required to meet precision agriculture requirements. This would include:

• Standards/Guidelines Definition: Identify the process for defining standards
• Council Review: Identify mechanics for distribution, review and approval of

standards within the PAC.

• Submission Process: Identify the process to finalize recommendations for

submission into AgGateway formalized (AgExchange - AgE) accepted standards.

• AgGateway Member Review Process: Identify the AgGateway cross council

review/approval process

• Publication: Identify the process to publish online guidelines to the

AgGateway community

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SPADE (objectives continued)

• Outline process of defining standards using the seeding use case

example

• Define the guidelines for implementing ISO-11783 (part 10 and 11)

including required and optional elements.

• Implement templates for use by FMIS to define a practice or

compliance reporting requirement.

• Utilize the Ag Industry Information System (AGIIS) directory for the

entity identifiers and product identifiers.

• Implementation by at least one major input manufacturer and one

equipment manufacturer with no limit on the number of producers.

• Document the standards-development process experience in the

Seeding Use Case

• Final report to PAC with production demonstration of Seeding Use

Case

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SPADE (objectives continued)

• Other Field Operations
• Define the use cases for data exchange messages for FMIS

to/from Machine including but not limited to seeding, applying, tilling and harvesting.

• Define additional data elements to efficiently execute and

document each use case.

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Precision Ag Irrigation (PAIL)

• Project Sponsoring Council: Precision Ag Council
• Start and End Dates: March 2013 – December 2014
• 18 Project Participants:
• Ag Connections, Agrian, Inc , AgSense, Campbell Scientific, CropMetrics,

Crop IMS, Decagon Devices, Irrometer, Irrinet, John Deere, J.R. Simplot, Lindsay Corp, MapShots, Monsanto, OnFarm Systems, Ranch Systems, Wysocki Produce Farms, Inc., ZedX

• Project Manager: Dan Berne

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Precision Ag Irrigation (PAIL)

Project Objectives:

• Enable communication by providing a common set of data standards.

These standards will represent weather, soil moisture and other relevant data, currently stored in a variety of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) formats, in an industry-wide format that can be used by irrigation data analysis and prescription programs.

• Enable more efficient, easier-to-use solutions for growers, and the

proposed standards will provide for extensibility for future use cases. Progress to date:

• Working on use cases for inbound data, field operations data, and

historical data. The project is meeting this week to continue that work.

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New Projects

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Crop Protection Canada Connectivity (CPCC)

• Project Sponsoring Council: Crop Protection Council
• Start and End Dates: September 2013 – December 2015
• Project Objectives:
• Improve the supply chain by implementing the exchange of selected XML-

based messages that support the order-to-invoice business process. This goal will be achieved by 4Q2015 as evidenced by the exchange of selected messages between 2 major distributors (~10-20% of the Canadian crop protection (CP) sales) and 4 manufacturers (at least 3 with ~10-20% each of the CP business) in a production environment.

• 50% of all participants will have connectivity with at least one trading partner

by 4Q2014.

• Leverage Ag eStandards, implementation business rules, AgGateway

implementation tools, the AGIIS directory, and business use cases from the AEC Project to complete the design phase by end of 1Q2014.

• Improve customer service and achieve response-time improvements for all

participants.

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Crop Protection Canada Connectivity (CPCC)

• Project Participants: Those that have been active in this

interim board: Bayer, Dow, DuPont, FMC, Monsanto, Nufarm, Syngenta, CPS, Richardson, and Viterra

• Project Manager: TBD
• Progress to date: Plan to have revised charter approved this

week, with a commitment letter sent out prior to the end of the month.

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Auto Identification Data Capture (AIDC)

• Project Sponsoring Council: Seed Council, (other possible – Ag

Retail and Crop Protection)

• Start and End Dates: July 2013 – June 2014
• Project Participants: Those currently working on task force:

AbeTech, Dow, Monsanto, Simplot, Syngenta, and Winfield

• Project Manager: TBD

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Auto Identification Data Capture (AIDC)

Project Objectives:

• Enable communication by providing a common set of data standards.

These standards will represent weather, soil moisture and other relevant data, currently stored in a variety of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) formats, in an industry-wide format that can be used by irrigation data analysis and prescription programs.

• Enable more efficient, easier-to-use solutions for growers, and the

proposed standards will provide for extensibility for future use cases. Progress to date:

• Working on use cases for inbound data, field operations data, and

historical data. The project is meeting this week to continue that work.

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SPADE2

• Project Sponsoring Council: Precision Ag Council
• Project Manager: Jim Wilson
• Start and End Dates: June 2013 – February 2014
• Project Objectives:
• Seeding:
• Build out the infrastructure required to implement FMIS-to-FMIS and FMIS-to-

Machine interoperability for the seeding use case.

• Harvest, Crop Protection
• Define the use cases and high-level data requirements for data exchange

messages for FMIS-to-FMIS and FMIS-to-Machine interoperability to support harvest operations. Define detailed data requirements and reference data requirements.

• Define the use cases and high-level data requirements for data exchange

messages for FMIS-to-FMIS and FMIS-to-Machine interoperability to support crop protection operations. Define detailed data requirements and reference data requirements.

• Data Exchange and Conversion API Proof-of-Concept
• Facilitate a proof-of-concept process for developing data

conversion/transformation APIs and tools.

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SPADE2

Project Participants: Current participants that have committed as of 6/19/13-am - 13:

• AGCO, AgConnections, Ag Integrated, Inc., Ag Leader, Agrian,

Brandt, CropIMS, GeoSys, Growmark, John Deere, Monsanto, SST Software, ZedX Progress to date:

• This project is still in the commitment process. We are

expecting 30+ companies in this project. They will be having their kick-off meeting on Thursday & Friday (6/20 – 6/21).

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Panel discussion with Project Board Chairs

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Items to be Addressed

• What was accomplished (successes)
• Hurdles experiences (any barriers)
• Lessons learned
• Next steps

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QUESTIONS FOR PANEL?

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THANK YOU!!

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