We overcome commercial Ag constraints, build cash flow & market power.
By reading this webpage and the accompanying “Cracking The Ag System Cash Flow Code” white paper, you will learn how to apply our experience as Ag system designers to make your agriculture dependent endeavors successful.
We welcome the opportunity to share with you and your team how expanding your current Ag model viewpoint can help drive more cash flow and market power.
We welcome the opportunity to share with you and your team how expanding your current Ag model viewpoint can help drive more cash flow and market power.
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With Agnetic RealizeWho is Agriculture: In our view, agriculture dependent commercial systems include individuals and organizations of all types that deal with agriculture. For example, entrepreneurs, companies, not-for-profits, governmental, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), investment and academia organizations, individual growers and consumers together with private and public, interests.
Commerce has a much broader meaning than most people realize...
"...While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any country. Thus, commerce is a system or an environment that affects the business prospects of an economy or a nation-state. We can also define it as a second component of business which includes all activities, functions and institutions involved in transferring goods from producers to consumers." Source: Wikipedia. -
With Agnetic Realize• Why agricultural commercial systems operate the way they do.
• Why so many are having such difficulty achieving their sustainable agriculture goals.
• Actions you can take today to improve your cash flow and market power.
Summary: Agriculture itself is made up of two very different subsystems. The first is an emergent system based on natural systems logic. The second is a regressive system based on commercial systems logic.
Difficulties arise when people treat agriculture's two very different subsystems the same way. The milestone dependent, stage-gate innovation model, popular in business, investment, finance and project management circles, is a regressive tool that has difficulty managing both the sporadic timelines and the subtle, but significant, reciprocal relationships found in agriculture's emergent subsystem. -
With Agnetic RealizeWhat makes agricultural commercial systems sustainable:
• Cash flow
• Market power
• Critical Mass
In our view, an agricultural commercial system’s qualitative goals are measured by how distributive, off-the-grid, organic, local, environmentally friendly, sustainable, and so on, an agricultural system is.
In our view, an agricultural commercial system’s quantitative goals are measured by how much food, feed, fiber, biofuels, biomaterials, and so on, an agricultural system can produce. -
With Agnetic RealizeHow to achieve more flexible critical mass agricultural commercial systems that waste less.
Agriculture is a natural system that is affected by both naturally occurring and man-made variables. Among these very different variables, commercial agriculture systems management is an iterative process that uses many forms of direct and indirect checks and balances.
For example, statistical tools, like standard deviation, provide one form of checks and balance by identifying places where natural and man-made variables need tending. The shorter the time between checks and balance, the more opportunity for continuous system improvement. The more cash flow and market power key is reducing your standard deviations at a rate faster than your competitors.
Like so many industries, agriculture's four economic sectors are changing. Unlike many other industries, what comes next has not yet been fully defined. Here is how we describe what is, and what is to come:
"Long-Haul Agriculture" is how we describe today's conventional agriculture model's centralized production~consumption cycles that depend heavily on:
• Petroleum
• Government subsidies
• Industrial scale centralization
"Short-Haul Agriculture" is how we describe the Symbiotic Sustainable Agriculture Model's decentralized, production~consumption 'more with less' cycles that are emerging, but have not yet fully arrived. Characteristics of short-haul agriculture include
• Building on the low cost, quality standardization, and food security benefits designed into long-haul agriculture.
• Modulating existing agricultural commercial systems towards more flexible business models that systematically balance financial, logistical, analytical, biological and social concerns.
• Providing food, feed, fiber, biofuel, biomaterial products with better price, quality and environmental balance by concurrently engineering new end products, their manufacturing and biorefining techniques along with relevant supply chain behavioral improvements.
System design is an effective model to modulate your "long-haul" dependent agricultural commercial system into a sustainable "short-haul" system.
Click the graphic below to see how Long-Haul agriculture's commercial and natural subsystems interact
To keep a copy of the graphic above, click, hold, and drag it to your desktop.
- 1. There are two different subsystems in agriculture. Each subsystem has it's own way working. In turn, each directly and indirectly influences the other. It's the process of how these two subsystems interact and how that interaction changes over time that makes agriculture a complex model to understand.
- 2. The three power levels of agriculture's commercial subsystem are• Business Operational Capability
• Business Model Formation Capability
• Strategic Principles that stand the test of time - 3. The five power domains of agriculture's natural subsystem are• Financial Domain
• Logistical Domain
• Analytical Domain
• Biological Domain
• Social Domain - 4. The natural fusion of agriculture's commerce and natural subsystems has been confusing ever since humankind planted the first seeds. Here we display the intersection of these two very different subsystems by using black and brown text. The black text represents the commercial subsystem. The brown text represents the natural subsystem. Where they are used together highlights where the two intersect.
Click the graphic below to see how agriculture's commercial and natural subsystems interact in Short-Haul agriculture
To keep a copy of the graphic above, click, hold, and drag it to your desktop.
- 1. There are two different subsystems in agriculture. Each subsystem has it's own way working. In turn, each directly and indirectly influences the other. It's the process of how these two subsystems interact and how that interaction changes over time that makes agriculture a complex model to understand.
- 2. The three power levels of agriculture's commercial subsystem are• Business Operational Capability
• Business Model Formation Capability
• Strategic Principles that stand the test of time - 3. The five power domains of agriculture's natural subsystem are• Financial Domain
• Logistical Domain
• Analytical Domain
• Biological Domain
• Social Domain - 4. As the natural fusion of agriculture's commerce and natural subsystems becomes more understandable by more people, the balance between commercial subsystem power, represented here in black text, and natural subsystem power, represented here by white text, coexist in a natural state of symbiotic checks and balance.
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The Net ResultWhen you chose Agnetic, you are choosing system design power that that produces ‘more with less’ and keeps you ahead of the rest.
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BackgroundAny agricultural system is fundamentally a combination of two different, but inseparable subsystems--‘Agriculture’s commercial systems’ and ‘Agriculture’s natural systems’. These two subsystems can live together to their benefit in a state of symbiosis, or one can dominate the other, to the detriment of both.
Some observers view agricultural systems from a quantitative perspective, as in food, feed, fiber, biofuels, biomaterials, biopharma, etc. Others, have a qualitative perspective, as in sustainable, industrial, organic, greenhouse, hub, conventional, rural development, etc. Regardless of one’s perspective and preferences, any agricultural system has both a natural subsystem and a commercial subsystem.
Many of agriculture’s quantitative observers and qualitative observers act as if the others do not exist, or are not relevant. Our view is that the popular zero-sum game of ‘us vs. them’ played by both the ‘conventional agriculture camp’ and the ‘natural agriculture camp’ is counterproductive.
The alternative solution is for each organization to build its own version of what we have named Symbiotic Sustainable Agriculture Model.
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Learn MoreOur free downloadable white paper, “Cracking The Agriculture System Cash Flow Code” is designed to help others understand agriculture’s complex subsystem interaction. In it you will find key agriculture system insights offered no where else. To shorten your learning curve we have included source document links. We encourage you to do your own validation research. Doing so, helps you to ‘getting it’ even faster.
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Do MoreThe time has come to adapt faster-paced industry's system design insights that combine end product development, biorefining, and manufacturing, together with animal feeding and supply chain management, into a single approach that clarifies agriculture’s complexities.
In short, can’t we combine the ‘qualitative viewpoint’ with the ‘quantitative viewpoint’ into one effective symbiotic whole?
At Agnetic, regardless of your viewpoint, by understanding, then implementing your own Symbiotic Sustainable Agriculture Model you can improve your cash flow and market power. In turn, this enables you to better achieve your chosen qualitative and quantitative goals. -
Contact UsIf the time has come for you to harness system design power that concurrently engineers finished products, biorefining processes and supply chain management activities into a unified, flexible agriculture dependent commercial system that is always ahead of the rest of the market,
contact us.
