AgGateway is happy to announce the provision of an up to date model of Modus, essentially the most extensively used lab check knowledge change commonplace within the agriculture business. This modernized and improved knowledge set – Modus v2 – presents enhanced check methodology lists permitting soil check labs, retailers, researchers, software program suppliers, and suppliers a extra correct and seamless option to change lab check knowledge.
Understanding soil well being is on the coronary heart of contemporary agronomy, and a cornerstone of present and rising carbon sequestration and sustainability applications. Add within the persevering with progress in using organic primarily based crop inputs and a number of recent measurements and variables for soil and it turned clear that the business may benefit tremendously from enhancements to Modus.
The unique Modus system was independently launched in 2014 and quickly turned the de facto soil check knowledge change commonplace within the business, nevertheless it turned tough for the group that created it to supply the continued help and curation it wanted. AgGateway assumed custody of Modus in 2022 and started the method of evaluating and updating the varied components of Modus.
“At A & L Nice Lakes Labs we participated within the early growth of the Modus file format and embraced it from its inception,” says Jamie Bultmeier, Company Gross sales Supervisor. “Like several new product, its use revealed alternative for enchancment, and Modus v2 addresses these alternatives and opens the framework to determine and embody further metadata. Modus v2 helps and additional defines variations of conventional lab strategies and knowledge reporting, together with the big variety of distinctive laboratory checks – a few of that are nonetheless in growth.”
Key advantages to Modus v2 embody the next:
- Delivers extra readability in lab check methodology documentation.
- Provides customers the flexibility to determine what check methodology was used to make sure that check outcomes are correctly understood and interpreted.
- Specifies a single unit of measure for every methodology to simplify knowledge change, however it’s versatile in that it may be transformed by the person to match their wants.
- Permits the submission of check requests with data and obtain linked outcomes.
- Permits apples-to-apples comparisons and outcomes monitoring over time by clearly documenting what was examined, when, the place, and the way.
Lab check methodology lists for soil and manure are at present obtainable within the Modus v2 construction, and an AgGateway working group is actively updating the plant tissue methodology checklist to the v2 construction as properly and can be accomplished in 2025.
Moreover, this documentation is being explored with the ADAPT Normal open-source group to see if there may be worth and curiosity in aligning the following technology of the Modus schema with the brand new subject knowledge change commonplace. Future efforts will give attention to updating the present methodology lists for the feed, nematode, water, and microbiology methodology lists to the brand new v2 construction.
One other benefit to the brand new commonplace is the addition of a proper course of for requesting adjustments and updates. The devoted web site at ModusStandard.org offers a primary overview of Modus v2, and hyperlinks to a GitHub repository that comprises every part wanted to submit change and replace requests, in addition to full definitions of phrases and processes to enhance understanding and useability.
