Grower
Grower delivers
Servi-Tech certified
wheat for dough.
Elevator
Bakery
Mill
Grain mill confirms
product is ready to be
used as flour.
Elevator confirms their
wheat meets quality
standards.
Pizza Dough Retailer
Pizza dough is now
made and ready to be
shipped.
Delivery
*Each time a contract has been met, the
retailer will be notified electronically.
Confirmation dough is stored at
correct temperature and will be
delivered at scheduled time.
Graphic by Kaci Davignon
Blockchain coming to agriculture
By Kaci Davignon
Communications Specialist
Eileen Baines, blockchain is an information storage
technology that allows people to share recorded
transactions in a digitized, decentralized data log. The
Blockchain. You have probably heard this buzzword
information is stored on a network of computers rather
thrown around
than in a single data base.
from time to time in
It provides the ability to
various industries. As
track a consumer product
“ Why not provide this transparency
technology advances,
from beginning to end. This
and immutable trust for all tests and all
it is important to stay
type of technology reduces
information we produce?”
up with the changing
the amount of discrepancies,
-
David
Loving,
Programmer
times.
as well as provides a direct
Servi-Tech is
avenue for merchandizers,
doing just that with
processors, distributers, retailers, and consumers to
blockchain.
provide traceability, according to Baines.
Blockchain allows for greater security, more
What is it?
transparency, and less risk in business transactions.
According to CoBank’s Senior Vice President
How can blockchain be utilized in the agriculture
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