AgGateway Archives - North America FarmQuip Magazine https://www.americafem.com/tag/aggateway/ Equipment, Machines, attachments and implements for farming, agriculture and forestry in the United States and Canada Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:50:35 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 AgGateway Names New Board of Directors Member https://www.americafem.com/2022/02/07/aggateway-names-new-board-of-directors-member/ https://www.americafem.com/2022/02/07/aggateway-names-new-board-of-directors-member/#respond Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:00:01 +0000 https://www.americafem.com/?p=296075 AgGateway announces that Karen Oerter has been appointed to the organization’s Board of Directors. Oerter replaces Jeremy Wilson, who vacated the position to join AgGateway staff as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on January 1. She will serve a two-year term. Oerter leads the IT group at Winfield United, a wholesale supplier of crop […]

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]]> AgGateway announces that Karen Oerter has been appointed to the organization’s Board of Directors. Oerter replaces Jeremy Wilson, who vacated the position to join AgGateway staff as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer on January 1. She will serve a two-year term.
Oerter leads the IT group at Winfield United, a wholesale supplier of crop inputs, seed, and crop nutrients, and a brand of Land O’ Lakes Inc. She joined Winfield Solutions in May 2010 as Marketing Director of Data and Insights and later added business responsibilities for insight platforms including CRM, AgriMine, and the AgTech Suite. In 2016, Karen took on the IT Program Integration for the Winfield Solutions-United Suppliers merger and has remained as a business/IT lead for Winfield United.
“Karen is engaged and very supportive of Winfield United’s involvement in AgGateway over the past five years. In her position, she oversees connectivity efforts for crop protection, nutrition, and retail agronomy, and she has encouraged the collaborative work undertaken to improve ADAPT. She also has participated in seed connectivity and product catalog efforts and provided very valuable contributions to the work of AgGateway volunteers. We’re excited to have her on the Board and look forward to working with her in the years ahead,”
says Brent Kemp, President, and CEO of AgGateway.
“I’ve been on a long journey with digital in marketing roles and IT. In this day and age, and especially over the past year, the industry has learned that you can’t do business without interconnected digital systems. Through AgGateway we have done good work that needs to continue at all levels … allied suppliers, retailers, and distributors. Everyone has been willing to pitch in and work together, and this is a great opportunity to have more direct and active engagement with the organization and its work,”
says Oerter.

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]]> https://www.americafem.com/2022/02/07/aggateway-names-new-board-of-directors-member/feed/ 0 AgGateway Honors Outstanding Volunteers, Celebrates Successful Return to In-Person Events at Annual Conference https://www.americafem.com/2021/12/01/aggateway-honors-outstanding-volunteers-celebrates-successful-return-to-in-person-events-at-annual-conference/ https://www.americafem.com/2021/12/01/aggateway-honors-outstanding-volunteers-celebrates-successful-return-to-in-person-events-at-annual-conference/#respond Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:00:57 +0000 https://www.americafem.com/?p=288806 AgGateway hosted more than 125 attendees in Nashville this month for its Annual Conference, its first in-person event in two years, and an opportunity for the industry to collectively move the ball forward on digital connectivity efforts, as well as to honor outstanding individuals in digital agriculture. “I was excited about the energy I saw […]

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]]> AgGateway hosted more than 125 attendees in Nashville this month for its Annual Conference, its first in-person event in two years, and an opportunity for the industry to collectively move the ball forward on digital connectivity efforts, as well as to honor outstanding individuals in digital agriculture.
“I was excited about the energy I saw throughout the event. Rooms were packed with good interaction, and attendees were having engaged and constructive conversations on key challenges we’ve identified. This conference sets us up well for a very productive 2022,”
said Brent Kemp, who will take over as President and CEO of AgGateway on January 1, with the announced retirement of Wendy Smith.
AgGateway leadership and member attendees took time during the conference to honor outstanding volunteers. The most prestigious recognition, the 2021 Ron Storms Leadership Award for outstanding and sustained organizational participation, was presented to Scott Nieman, Expert Enterprise Architect for Land O’Lakes. In presenting the award, Smith pointed to Nieman’s activity in working groups that delivered messages, APIs, and implementation guidelines linking manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and field equipment as “truly proving the promise of AgGateway resources to enable data to flow like water.
“He is a consistent voice championing interoperability tools for developers, challenging us to continue providing value to member companies, promoting AgGateway as a place where good work is being done,”
she continued, adding that Nieman serves as an effective ambassador in the industry,
The President’s Award recognizes individuals that have gone above and beyond in the support of AgGateway and its mission to develop the resources and relationships that drive digital connectivity. The 2021 recipient is the ADAPT Leadership Team of Dan Danford, CNH Industrial; Kelly Nelson, Farmbelt North; and Stuart Rhea, Syngenta Digital.
In calling ADAPT “One of AgGateway’s most important resources and biggest success stories,” Smith noted that ADAPT’s success “has been enabled by dedicated volunteers across the world and guided by steady leadership.”
Danford from CHN Industrial leads the ADAPT Business Team, which focuses its activities around effectively communicating the value of ADAPT to the industry.
“Dan has been relentless in identifying and addressing misunderstandings and seeking out opportunities across myriad industry events to tell the ADAPT story,”
said Smith.
Nelson and Rhea lead the ADAPT Technical Team.
“Their technical expertise is matched only by their unbiased and patient management of ADAPT’s highly complex code base,”
said Smith.
The three main ADAPT packages have accumulated more than 150,000 downloads, a testament to ADAPT’s value and utility.
“We never cease to be amazed by the collaborative spirit among the army of developers and system architects that build and maintain ADAPT,”
Smith said.
Finally, the 2021 AgGateway in Action award winners were acknowledged at the conference. One individual volunteer is selected from each of the organization’s three regions who have demonstrated commitment to moving AgGateway’s mission forward in the past year. Recipients are selected by the regional steering committees from member-contributed nominations. The 2021 recipients are:
  • North America: Mike Altman, Syngenta
  • Latin America: Ronaldo Pereira de Oliveira, EMBRAPA SOLOS
  • Europe: Joachim Crombez, Proagrica
Next year’s Annual Conference will be held November 14-16 at the Windham Grand Clearwater Beach in Florida.

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