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Center of Excellence for the Food Industry

Mission: To create awareness, facilitate & create transactions, and provide valuable services for everyone in

the food pyramid

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B2F/B2B/B2CDirectory

Buy/SellExchange

Virtual Big DataServices

GeographicERP Planning

Models – Zillow, LinkedIn, Alibaba, eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Kelly Blue Book (kbb.com)Directory members – Any Value Add business, organization to the food chain, User member – anyone (businesses, consumers, Foodbank, non-profits, etc.) Tiered memberships – free…….$$$

seminars/education

CEA, Find Suppliers, Growers, Services, CustomersMarket/Advertise• Products, services, &

delivery

Social Network• Reputation, badges,

updates, chat, blog, seminars/education

Qualify & Quantify • Supply• ProductionAggregate• Pricing/DiscountsIntroductions• Member matching

& clusteringCall Center

Needs• Items, Dates

Resource Planning• What/when to plant• Food processing

optimization• Supply chain/delivery

Retail futures• Virtual Co-Ops

Soil-to-Sky Analytics• Plant/Crop/Field• Animal/Meat• Water, fertilizer, weed,

fungicide insecticide use

• UAV/Drone• Soil Sensor• Ag Economics, weather,

food, other research

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Farm to Fork

RestaurantsRetail Stores

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Retailers

ValuAg

Network

Distributors Wholesalers

Foodservice

Importer/Exporter Brokers

Manufacturers

Processors &Industrial producers

Farmers/Producers

ValuAg Network Goal:To serve everyone in the food industry (see pyramid), from FARM TO FORK, by providing a comprehensive smart network of information, products and services. We are the local, national, world online resource and link into buying and selling of food products. “Democratizing the Food & Beverage Industry”

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Partnering with Cornell CEA to bring Hydroponics, Aquaponics,

& Greenhouses Food Production

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Alpha-siteAlpha-site

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The ValuAg Network Cloud Platform (Ag/SaaS Stack)

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moisturenitrogenpotashsalinity

photonsco2

temphumidity

wind

fungipathogens

moldbacteriaviruses

Soil-to-Sky Analytics:Prescriptive AND Preventative Farm Solutions & Services

UGV’sGround/Air

Sampling

WeatherOther Data

Merged Historical Data

Analyzed Push Recommendations

Labor and Equipment Tracking

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Supply Chain Solution

Operations (WMS)• Delivery Data• Traceability• Reduced Waste

Operations (WMS)• Delivery Data• Traceability• Reduced Waste

Notifications• Incoming QC• Pre-cool• Inventory Prioritization

Notifications• Incoming QC• Pre-cool• Inventory Prioritization

Notifications• Inventory Prioritization• Actionable Recall

Notifications• Inventory Prioritization• Actionable Recall

Notifications• Improved Quality• Actionable Recall

Notifications• Improved Quality• Actionable Recall

• Improved Process• Improved Quality• Traceability• Reduced Waste

• Improved Process• Improved Quality• Traceability• Reduced Waste

Operations• Traceability• InventoryAnalytics / BI

Operations• Traceability• InventoryAnalytics / BI

Field / Production

Pack House / Processing

Retail DC Retail StoreQC QC QC

Product InfoTime, temp & locationProduct InfoTime, temp & location

NotificationsCorrective ActionsNotificationsCorrective Actions

Real Time

Notification alerts for quality compromising events and product recalls

Full Visibility and Traceability of Supply Chain

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Future Needs

Higher Education Anchored • Virtual Trust• Physical Trust

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Virtual Trust• Develop Block Chain technologies

to protect FARMER OWNED data and give them 100% control on the diustribution & use thereof (this is a value-added revenue opportunity for them)

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Physical Trust• Affordable data storage of

personally owned BIG DATA sets generated by “soil-to-sky” analytics

• Affordable IoT and BIG DATA deep learning and analytic engines facilities.

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Propose a Higher Education based/trustedDatacenter & Ag-Cloud-Hub cooperative

Funded via NSF, NYSERDA, NY Gov/Ag, and other resources