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The Agri-Data Solution™ Selected by Simplot Foods for Sustainability Initiative Tracking
April 12th, 2010The Agri-Data Solution™ has been selected by the J.R. Simplot Food group to track grower inputs on all contracted potato acres. According to Michael Johnston; Senior Director of Potato Operations, “We evaluated a number of systems in the market today and the Agri-Data Solution™ met all of the current requirements for our sustainability tracking requests from our major customers.”
The system will allow rapid identification of products used to grow potatoes and demonstrate good environmental stewardship of our growers and their agricultural practices. By tracking information down to the field level, processors can now have a broad view of cultural practices and products growers select to produce a high quality crop in a responsible fashion.
About The Agri-Data Solution™
The Agri-Data Solution™ is a web based agricultural data management platform used by growers, agriculture retailers, food and ingredients processors and industrial users of processed water. For more information: www.agridatasolution.com The Agri-Data Solution™ is offered in the US by USADS LLC.
About Simplot
The J.R. Simplot Company, a privately-held agribusiness firm headquartered in Boise, Idaho, responsibly Brings Earth’s Resources to Life with an integrated portfolio that includes phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, food processing, food brands and other enterprises related to agriculture. Simplot’s major operations are in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and China, with products marketed in over 40 countries worldwide. For more information: www.simplot.com.
Simplot and AGRI-TREND Form New Joint-Venture Agri Data Management Company
July 9th, 2009BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The J. R. Simplot Company of Boise, Idaho, and Agri-Trend Data Corp of Red Deer, AB, have created a new joint-venture company called U.S. Agri-Data Solutions LLC (USADS) to deliver their proprietary Agri-Data™ Solution Netware Platform to agricultural producers and processors in the United States.
The new company will market and deploy the agricultural data management system to growers, food processors, and other agricultural applications in the U.S. The fee-based data management platform has been used extensively in Canada for the past ten years and has been customized and tested for U.S. cropping systems and patterns for the past two growing seasons.
The Agri-Data™ Solution (www.agridatasolution.com) is a web-based system that allows growers to fully integrate all their data into a single management system, and transmit specific farming data to key stakeholders, such as crop advisors, banks, processors and others who have a vested interest in a particular crop or field. The system can also be used for documenting carbon sequestration activities, and by agricultural processors for contract compliance and to document land-applied processed water.
In addition to data management, The Agri-Data Solution™ will provide all-important documentation, which will increasingly be required of growers.
Bill Whitacre, CEO-elect of the JR Simplot Company, feels the new partnership is the starting point for track and traceable food/feed systems as well as demonstrating good agricultural practices.
“The foundation for demonstrating good stewardship and sustainable farming practices begins at the field level with on-the-ground data management and documentation,” he said. “We’ve been developing this concept for several years and today it is a working reality.”
According to Whitacre, the technology has wide applications beyond the Simplot Company.
“We felt that by creating a separate and stand-alone company, we could maintain data privacy and make this platform available to the entire agricultural industry.”
Robert Saik, CEO and founder of The Agri-Trend Group of Companies, adds, “We have been developing our on-line, encrypted, fully-integrated Netware platform since 1999 and were recognized as Alberta Ag E-Business of the Year in 2002 for demonstrating how farmers and agri-business could use the power of the internet to improve production and grower profits. The Agri-Data Solution™ Netware Platform, and its related components have been used on millions of acres of farmland in Canada and after an extensive testing period, we are delighted to move forward with the J.R. Simplot Company to offer this platform for use by growers and agri-business in the US.”
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The J.R. Simplot Company, a privately-held agribusiness firm headquartered in Boise, Idaho, responsibly Brings Earths Resources to Life with an integrated portfolio that includes phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, food processing, food brands and other enterprises related to agriculture. Simplot’s major operations are in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and China, with products marketed in over 40 countries worldwide. For more information: www.simplot.com.
Agri-Trend Data Corp is part of The Agri-Trend Group of Companies a privately-held organization headquartered in Red Deer, Alberta with offices in Calgary, Alberta and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Agri-Trend provides leadership through “The Science of Growth” to farmers, agronomists, agri-retailers and agri-industry in the area of production consulting, agricultural offset carbon credit generation, grain marketing strategies and data management innovation. The Agri-Trend Network spans Canada with operations in The United States and affiliates in Australia. For more information: www.agritrendgroup.com
Kevin L. Pattison Joins AGRI-TREND Data Corp
February 1st, 2009Agri-Trend™ Data Corp. announces Kevin L. Pattison (formally Clarity Inc.) as Partner and Senior Architect/Developer. “Kevin is responsible for the ongoing design and development of our world class agronomic data platforms and services, including MySCP™ and The AGRI-DATA™ Solution,” says Michael K. Giles President of Agri-Trend Data Corp.
Kevin L. Pattison grew up on his family farm in Lemberg, SK where he spent his youth working on the farm and family business, Pattison Bros Agro. After high school Kevin traveled to Calgary to attend the University of Calgary where he earned his Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science with a Minor in Business. Starting as a summer student in 1998 Kevin began his career with Clarity Solutions Inc.
Over the last 10 years at Clarity Kevin has had an opportunity to work in many business sectors, with many major corporations around the world. In 2001 Kevin began working with Agri-Trend Agrology and converted a simple access database, into a powerful online agronomic business tool, MySCP Netware. In 2002 the platform won an E-business of the Year award. Throughout the years Kevin has been the architect and developer on the entire MySCP and Agri-Data Solution platform, adding functionality and scalability to grow the application with Agri-Trend’s Business. Kevin’s background in agriculture and experience brought from other projects has been a huge advantage in developing software for Agri-Trend Inc. Kevin is very excited to be able to continue to expand and support these legacy platforms with Agri-Trend Data Corp.
Doug McRae (McRae Holding Ltd.) Appointed Director for Agri-Data Solution (Canada) Inc.
January 1st, 2009Agri-Data Solution (Canada) Inc. (ADSCI) announces Doug McRae as Director representing Agri-Partner Shareholders. Mr. McRae is charged with the responsibility to ensure shareholders investments in ADSCI continue to deliver improvements, expansion and development for the agronomic platforms through real-life, retail based use and experience.
New Canadian AGRI-DATA? Sales and Marketing Company
November 15th, 2008Agri-Data Solution (Canada) Inc. (ADSI), based in Calgary Alberta, will provide sales and marketing support to serve the growing number of agri-business partners, retailers, sales agronomists and growers using MySCP™ and The AGRI-DATA™ Solution agronomic platforms. “There is an expanding number of agri-business professionals that are taking part in an emerging business opportunity - managing their customers agricultural data information”, claims Michael K. Giles, President of Agri-Trend™ Data Corp. ADSCI was established to assist customers manage this new business opportunity.
Agri-Trend Data Corp develops best-in-class agricultural data management platforms that deliver market specific solutions in the Food, Feed, Fuel and Fibre markets to help end users make better business decisions that increase profit.
Agri-Trend? Group of Companies Announces Michael K. Giles as President of Agri-Trend Data Corp
November 1st, 2008Robert Saik, CEO of the Agri-Trend Inc. Group of Companies, (Red Deer, Alberta) announced today that Michael K. Giles will be President for Agri-Trend™ Data Corp. “Mike Giles will be responsible for managing the global business operations of our AGRI-DATA™ management company with a key focus on driving development and sales our of world class agronomic platforms in North America.”
Mike Giles brings over 20 years of agriculture business experience and unique data management knowledge to Agri-Trend Data Corp. Mike grew up in agriculture living and working on his father’s mixed farm, the 3rd generation of Giles to farm in Alberta. The agriculture roots run deep for Mike; before he was 10 years old, owning and managing livestock. Mike completed a technical diploma and then a degree in Agriculture, both focused on Crop Production.
“I have always been drawn to unique entrepreneurial business opportunities,” claims Giles. He built his first company at fifteen: designing and building custom furniture and has owned and managed several businesses since including spending the last 12 years at Growth Stage™ Consulting Inc. (Calgary) where he provided strategic business leadership during the development and deployment of proprietary environmental and agricultural weather-based forecasting and communication technologies. “I am really looking forward to applying my experience in agriculture data management services with Agri-Trend Inc.’s network of independent agriculture professionals, agri-business partners, retailers and growers.”
Agri-Trend Data Corp develops best-in-class agricultural data management platforms that deliver market specific solutions in the Food, Feed, Fuel and Fibre markets to help end users make better business decisions that increase profit.
Agri-Trend? Data Corp launches The AGRI-DATA? Solution
October 1st, 2008In September 2008, Agri-Trend™ Data Corp. was established to produce the next generation of secure, web enabled data management platforms to capitalize on the emerging AGRI-DATA™ opportunities in the food, feed, fibre and fuel markets. Today Agri-Trend Data Corp officially released their newest agronomic platform called “The AGRI-DATA™ Solution”.
“The AGRI-DATA Solution allows agri-business managers and agronomic field advisors to transform agriculture data into profitable business decisions through better crop planning, risk analysis and reports tools”, says Michael K Giles, President of Agri-Trend Data Corp.
The AGRI-DATA Solution will help agri-businesses:
- Increase customer loyalty by hosting and managing important farm and field data.
- Save time by reducing the learning curve of new staff to get up to speed.
- Improve product planning and forecasting for smarter purchasing decisions.
- Generate new revenue through integrated data services like:
- Soil and tissue test data analysis,
- Field scouting,
- Carbon aggregation, and
- Grain marketing.
The Agri-Data Solution provides fully integrated data management and analytical tools to support retail clients with:
- Grower crop planning
- Product forecasting for nutrient, seed and crop protection products
- Fertilizer quick blending requirements
- Automated soil and tissue report integration
- Soil and tissue trend line analysis
- Field scout tracking and reporting
- Determining unit cost of production for the field
The AGRI-DATA Solution has over 8 years of field testing and development behind it, in collaboration with Agri-Coaches™, agri-business partners, retail clients and growers. The AGRI-DATA Solution is the leading agronomic data management platform specifically developed for Canadian producers and agri-businesses to succeed in the new agri-data era.
Agri-Trend Data Corp formed to deliver new agriculture data management opportunities.
September 1st, 2008Robert Saik, CEO of the Agri-Trend Inc. Group of Companies, (Red Deer Alberta) announced today it has incorporated Agri-Trend Data Corp to capitalize on the future of AGRI-DATA™ information management, analysis and reporting.
Agri-Trend Data Corp., a subsidiary of Agri-Trend Inc., will focus on the development of secure, trusted agricultural data management platforms that can deliver market-specific solutions that help agri-business partners, retailers and growers make more profit. “Agri-Trend has over 10 year experience in the management and analysis of AGRI-DATA™ with the primary focus on driving farm profitability through our agronomy services division Agri-Trend Agrology Ltd.
“For almost a decade our independent Agri-Coach™ network has managed their client agronomic information on a web based platform called My Strategic Crop Plan™ or MySCP™ in short”, says Saik. “Since its inception MySCP has added measurable value for our farm customers by offering data management solutions that help them make more money through wiser business decisions”.
Agri-Trend Data Corp. will focus on the development and management of secure, trusted agricultural data management platforms that help agri-business partners, retailers and growers make better business decisions through improved agri-data management, planning and reporting of farm and field events, production information and crop input history.
