The Inside Ag Gateway Webinar Series is designed to provide overviews of areas of work that are timely and of significant importance to the agriculture industry. These brief 45 minute sessions feature panels of volunteer members who are actively involved in the projects who share perspective on the status of the specific projects and a look at their future direction. Anyone with an interest in any of the webinar topics can view them on demand, or make it a point to sit in on the live session to ask questions and lend perspective.

Coming soon!

Digitized Scale Tickets: Harnessing Data for Efficiency and Insights

Recorded Tuesday, 20 May, 2:00 - 2:45 pm Central Time

Most deliveries by a farmer to an elevator or processor are only documented by a printed or handwritten scale ticket. Similarly, for shipments of bulk commodities or inputs to the farmer, a paper ticket is often generated and used to complete invoices and bills of lading.

These traditional printed or hand-written scale tickets are a tremendous source of inefficiency and inaccuracy in the crop production system. Converting to a digitized system provides a pathway to eliminating these issues, while simultaneously delivering data to drive food traceability programs, greenhouse gas reporting, and streamline the time-consuming process farmers undertake annually to reconcile scale tickets with field level commodity production records.

AgGateway and its member organizations have been setting building blocks that will enable the digitization of scale tickets across the crop production channel.

In this informative 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn more about AgGateway’s work on digitized scale tickets and how you can get involved.

Moderator
Ben Craker, Portfolio Manager, AgGateway

Panelists
Scott Nieman, Architect, Digital Ag Platform | Land O'Lakes
Leif Wildman, Principal Consultant | Software Solutions Integrated

Getting a Fix on Field Boundaries in Agriculture

Achieving an accurate, consistent field boundary is critically important for many reasons:

• Prescription-based input application
• Soil sampling
• Insurance reporting
• Greenhouse gas reduction programs

But ag professionals understand the challenges of exchanging field boundaries:

• What satellite constellation or correction source was used?
• What level of accuracy was the equipment that was used to draw the boundary?
• Did the farmer use his finger on an iPad?

AgGateway, in conjunction with its member organizations, is working through case studies and technical challenges to forge a clearer path forward for field boundary collection and exchange. The completed work will also be essential as the industry prepares for more advanced technology, such as machine automation.