You may not have ever heard of AgGateway, but this relatively youthful organization already has a membership that reads like a who’s who of agribusinesses and their important goal is to help efficiently share information between trading partners in the agricultural and food supply chains.

GROWMARK was one of the founding companies of AgGateway just six short years ago, growing out of an organization known as RAPID. “RAPID was really formed by the crop protection segment of the ag industry and it did what AgGateway does today,” said GROWMARK Chief Information Officer Tim Piper. AgGateway allowed the concept started by RAPID to expand into other segments of agribusiness. “Many companies like GROWMARK are involved in several other segments of the ag industry and we didn’t really have a system of developing projects and standards around interchange between trading partners in these other segments.”

So, AgGateway developed with councils for different segments of the industry. “There’s still a crop protection council, but now we also have a crop nutrition council, seed, feed, etc.,” Tim explains. And as the organization grows the councils are expanding as well, with a retail and a precision ag council added recently and more councils in the works for grains, animal health, equipment and specialty crops.

Listen to more of my conversation with Tim about AgGateway here: Tim Piper Interview

Watch a GROWMARK video about the benefits of AgGateway.