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.
When
Thursday, 17 July, 10:00 - 10:45 am Central Time
Moderator
Ben Craker, Portfolio Manager, AgGateway
Panelists
Nancy Bohl Bormann, Ph.D. | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Kristin A. Hicks, Ph.D | North Carolina Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Agronomic Division Robert Miller | Collaborative Testing Services, Inc.
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For more than a decade, Modus served as the digital link between agricultural labs and their various channel partners to allow the movement of data from the test site to the lab and back to inform crop nutrition and other recommendations. Over time Modus’ limitations, coupled with evolving testing methods and the need for more efficient and accurate data exchange, created the demand for an updated version.
AgGateway gathered key industry stakeholders and is in the process of a significant overhaul of Modus. Late last year new versions of the soil and manure test method lists were released, and work continues to add additional features and capabilities.
What the new Modus v2 brings to end users in terms of improved value and functionality and next steps in the standard development process is the focus of the next Inside AgGateway Webinar.
The session will last 45 minutes and cover the following topical areas:
Recorded on June 24, 2025 at 1 pm Central Time
When Tuesday, 24 June, 1:00 - 1:45 pm Central Time
Moderator Ben Craker, Portfolio Manager, AgGateway
Panelists Kelly Nelson | FarmBelt North Dan Danford | CNH Industrial Stuart Rhea | Endless Wonder Consulting
In 2024, the ADAPT Standard was released to help address the evolving needs of agricultural field-centric data exchange. Developed through the collaborative efforts of AgGateway member experts and overlaid on nearly a decade of ADAPT Framework development, ADAPT Standard is the world’s only standard to support a broad range of farm data implemented by leading farm management information systems.
This webinar will provide an overview of the new ADAPT Standard and what makes it an important and powerful tool for the agriculture value chain. It will also describe its differences compared to the ADAPT Framework and strategies for implementation, as well as share priorities for future version updates to the ADAPT Standard.
Who Should Attend
Questions? Contact Ben Craker at ben.craker@aggateway.org.
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.
Panelists Scott Nieman, Architect, Digital Ag Platform | Land O'Lakes Leif Wildman, Principal Consultant | Software Solutions Integrated
Achieving an accurate, consistent field boundary is critically important for many reasons:
But ag professionals understand the challenges of exchanging field boundaries:
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.