AgGateway is being recognized for the release of its ADAPT Standard and ADAPT Standard Plugin with a 2026 AE50 Award at the the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference next month in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sponsored by Resource magazine, a publication of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), the AE50 Award program annually recognizes top innovative new products of the previous year.
The AgGateway ADAPT Standard is a data model expressed as JSON Schema with standardized data type definitions designed for business-to-business transfer of agricultural production data. Created using connectCenter, an innovative data modeling tool developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Open Applications Group (OAGi), ADAPT Standard is the result of collaborative efforts of AgGateway member experts and built on nearly a decade of open source development. It is the world’s only standard that supports a broad range of field operations data that has been implemented by leading farm management information systems.
The accompanying ADAPT Standard Plugin links the ADAPT Framework to the ADAPT Standard, ensuring that legacy data formats can be translated via existing integrations into the new, open industry standard format. ADAPT Standard is a high-value tool in the ADAPT set of resources alongside the ADAPT Framework and other ADAPT plugins. For more information, visit the ADAPT Standard website.
“We’re thrilled that ASABE is recognizing this milestone achievement in farm data interoperability,“ says Jim Wilson, AgGateway’s Chief Technology Officer. “In accepting this award, we thank the ADAPT Committee members for their dedication of time, talent, and expertise to bring ADAPT Standard to the agriculture industry, and the National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative for their sub-award under NIFA grant 2023-77039-41033 for supporting the development of the ADAPT Standard plugin.”
Listen to an interview with Wilson from the 2025 AgGateway annual meeting to learn more about ADAPT.
Interview with Jim Wilson, AgGateway (2:27)