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/B2C
Directory
Buy/Sell
Exchange
CEA, Find Suppliers,
Growers, Services,
Customers
Market/Advertise
Qualify & Quantify
• Supply
• Production
Aggregate
• Pricing/Discounts
Introductions
• Member matching
& clustering
Call Center
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Products, services, &
delivery
Social Network
• Reputation, badges,
updates, chat, blog,
seminars/education
Geographic
ERP Planning
Soil-to-Sky Analytics
Needs
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Items, Dates
Resource Planning
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What/when to plant
Food processing
optimization
Supply chain/delivery
Retail futures
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Virtual Co-Ops
Virtual Big Data
Services
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Plant/Crop/Field
Animal/Meat
Water, fertilizer, weed,
fungicide insecticide
use
UAV/Drone
Soil Sensor
Ag Economics, weather,
food, other research
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…….$$$
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Farm to Fork
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”
Restaurants
Retail Stores
Foodservice
Distributors
Importer/Exporter
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Retailers
Wholesalers
Brokers
Manufacturers
Processors &
Industrial producers
Farmers/Producers
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***Confidential intellectual property of M3 Enterprises***
Partnering with
Cornell CEA to bring Hydroponics, Aquaponics,
& Greenhouses Food Production
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Alpha-site
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The ValuAg Network Cloud Platform
(Ag/SaaS Stack)
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Soil-to-Sky Analytics:
Prescriptive AND Preventative Farm Solutions & Services
Weather
Other Data
Merged
Historical Data
Analyzed Push
Recommendations
UGV’s
Ground/Air
Sampling
moisture
nitrogen
potash
salinity
fungi
pathogens
mold
bacteria
viruses
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photons
co2
temp
humidity
wind
The Southern
Tier
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Labor and***
Equipment
Tracking ***
Supply Chain Solution
Full Visibility and Traceability of Supply Chain
Notification alerts for quality
compromising events and
Notifications
product recalls
Real Time
Notifications
• Inventory Prioritization
• Actionable Recall
Notifications
• Improved Quality
• Actionable Recall
• Incoming QC
• Pre-cool
• Inventory Prioritization
Product Info
Time, temp & location
Notifications
Corrective Actions
Field /
Production
QC
Pack House /
Processing
• Improved Process
• Improved Quality
• Traceability
• Reduced Waste
QC
Retail DC
Operations (WMS)
• Delivery Data
• Traceability
• Reduced Waste
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QC Retail Store
Operations
• Traceability
• Inventory
Analytics / BI
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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/trusted
Datacenter & Ag-Cloud-Hub cooperative
Funded via NSF, NYSERDA, NY Gov/Ag, and other resources
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