Grant: CCI Applied Research and Development Grants

VeriGrain™ Sampling Inc. (VeriGrain) is an AgTech firm who has created a farm inventory data management system. They solve a substantial problem in the food chain which results in grains being undervalued, under-utilized, and untraceable. VeriGrain requires the ability to connect to third party agricultural software so that their customers do not need to enter the same data into multiple different software packages. Integrating with third party software can be a very time-consuming process. The goal of this project is to develop a semi-automated means of establishing integrations with various agricultural software products and VeriGrain’s grain inventory management system. VeriGrain™ Sampling Inc. (VeriGrain) created a farm inventory data management system to solve a substantial problem in the food chain which results in grains being undervalued, under-utilized, and untraceable. The problem stems from inaccurate grain sampling and the absence of digital information at the farm. VeriGrain’s inventory data management system consists of an extractor, equipment they created to automatically take grain samples and a mobile app. The mobile app controls the sampling rate of the extractor and tracks grain data. This system provides accurate samples because many small cross-cut samples are taken at regular intervals. The app allows growers to map samples directly to fields and bins and VeriGrain is now building out quality tracking information. While there are systems available that can automatically connect well known software packages (e.g. Microsoft, Google, Facebook), there is no system available to allow VeriGrain to easily establish connections between their software and third-party agricultural software. There also is no overarching development standard that all systems follow to allow integration. Currently, to integrate new software products into their platform, VeriGrain manually programs their own connections to these systems. This requires time and knowledge of coding and can be an overwhelming task for integrating multiple products. This project’s innovation is to develop a unique semi-automated means of establishing an interaction between farm management software products and VeriGrain’s system. To do this DICE plans to create an automatic programming tool that can be used by someone with programming experience to help speed up the process of integrating third party software.