AHDB Digital Grain Passport

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The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is seeking proposals from companies to provide a digital data hub allowing data exchange between participants in combinable crop supply chains, AHDB and the wider industry. Every combinable crop grower, haulier, merchant and processor in the UK will have access to it. Part of the project’s ambition is to replace the current paper passport process for combinable crop movements across the UK. The digital passport project builds on an earlier project (eGrain Passport) delivered by AHDB on behalf of industry between 2012 and 2017. That project included: · Development of a pilot electronic passport system scalable to national requirements consistent with the existing paper passport · Two-way information flow facilitating data to pass back from processor to grower · Real-time assurance status checks by connecting to industry databases e.g. Red Tractor and TASCC (Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops) · Piloting within milling wheat and malting barley supply chains throughout 2015 Approximately 200 loads of grain were piloted and it proved that electronic passports could work quickly and efficiently. 97% of pilot participants supported the concept of an electronic passport. However at that project’s conclusion, industry bodies were not able to reach agreement on adoption.