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A MESSAGE FROM CUSTOMER SERVICES

USER CONFERENCE 2012 WRAP UP!

It’s hard to believe almost a month has passed since the conclusion of the 2012 National User Conference! It truly was the most amazing event yet that AgVantage has hosted. The feedback, surveys, comments and emails we’ve received from our customers from that event are proof it wasn’t just from our eyes, but our customer’s eyes as well. Thank you to all who at-tended. Your presence makes this event what it has become today. I hope those of you who attended left with more knowledge and ideas to make your jobs and your companies more efficient. I hope you carried away a glimpse into the AgVantage team and how we work together to make this event as spectacular as it is. Our support team has been very busy since the conference, following up on your requests for software demos, installa-tions of new software purchases or upgrades of existing packages. We’ve been following up with training on questions or new topics you learned about, so the dust hasn’t quite settled yet on our duties from the User Conference in the support de-partment! Make sure to keep the knowledge you learned at the conference fresh and put it into action. If you are interested, remember to take advantage of our eTraining classes to help you refresh your memory on those things you learned at the conference. Through the end of July, we are offering our Annual special on a full year of unlimited eTraining for your entire company for only $1500. You can find the current schedule on our website under the Support tab, and then click on Training on the right hand side and in the center of your screen, you can find a link to the current schedule. Also, if you attended the User Conference, an eTraining schedule thru the end of August is also on the thumb drive you received with all the handouts and other flyers. If you are interested in signing up for this special, please contact Kate (katee@agvantage.com) or myself (theresaw@agvantage.com) to register. Enjoy the rest of the summer, as with everything, it will go by quickly and before we know it, we’ll be talking fall colors and corn harvest! Stay well.

Theresa Willems V.P. Customer Services

theresaw@agvantage.com

This Issue: National Conference Review………….p. 2 National Conference Photos…….…..p. 3-4 Customer Driven Development Voting Results……….………..p. 5-6 Employee Spotlight— Kristi Wendricks…….…...….….p. 7 New Releases………………………...p. 8-10 Features Coming Soon………...……..p. 11

Mark Eisfeld, Agronomy Operations Manager, New Vision Coop, served as a Pro

for AgVantagePC Agronomy.

Thanks Mark!

NATIONAL CONFERENCE—THANKS FOR JOINING US!

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Lori Campbell Conference Manager loric@agvantage.com

Thank you for taking the time to join us for our 2012 National Conference. Almost 250 people attended our conference last month, including our customers, our busi-ness partners, and our staff. It was so wonderful to have everyone there for the edu-cational opportunities, the networking, and the fun. There was so much excitement in the air! Part of it is like a family reunion as we greet our long time attendees. There is also much fun in getting to meet our new attendees and hear about their lives and businesses. It was gratifying to see everything come together as our entire staff had worked for many months on various aspects of the conference. The post conference surveys showed one of the strongest loves for a hotel confer-ence location that I have seen! You liked downtown Minneapolis, the food, the guest rooms, the service etc… There were a few people that were a bit hesitant about the downtown location, but most really loved the hotel and gave it a 10 out of 10. There were 38 classes mentioned as “favorite session” in 2012. That is what I like to see as it means there were lots of attendees very happy with a wide range of sessions they attended. Our conference offsite evening event, the MN Twins vs. Phillies baseball game, went ahead as scheduled! That was amazing and a pleasant surprise for all of us since it had rained the entire day! As we kept saying all day, “It’s a 10% chance of no rain,”…..and the positive thoughts worked. Looking ahead to next year, our tentative dates are June 19-21, 2013. Our plan is to use a new luxury hotel, the Radisson Blu, which is being attached via skyway to the Mall of America. It is scheduled for a March, 2013 comple-tion. I will write a newsletter update after the contract has been signed.

Becky Kleeberger of Interstate Mills, Owatonna, MN and Julie Yost of Freeborn County Coop, Albert Lea, MN were each honored for attending their 25th conference! They received a glass crystal vase with a bouquet of flowers.

Michelle Blomberg, President /CEO of AgVantage during her keynote “Going for the Gold with AgVantage.”

Conference attendees listen intently during a session that was part of the Man-ager’s Track on Wednesday afternoon.

New attendees Gail Tally and Rebecca Marino, of Wallowa County Grain Growers took first place in the evening Olympic themed costume contest. Way to go Gail and Rebecca! Jeff Brandenberg of CliftonLarsenAllen LLP presented a session on Securing Your Gold—Fraud Prevention.

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2012 AgVantage National Conference

Randy Hehman, Premier Companies, Ryan Altmann of UFC and Butch Turner of Superior Ag Resources participated as presenters for the Information Technology Panel.

Representatives from DTN/The Progressive Farmer, review their presentation.

Randy Paulson of Carlson Highland, Debbie Thill of United Ag Services, and Enid Jackson of Lakeland Coop participated in some workshop exercises during the general session.

Dwayne Ruthig, Caledonia Farmers Elevator, and co-presenter Karen Tidd of AgVantage listen as CPA Dirk Prindle discusses new government regulations that affect agribusinesses.

Barry Day, GM at Superior Ag Resources, presented a session on Protecting Your Company

Attendees listen intently during one of the conference lab sessions.

“Great conference,

well organized,

good people.”

Thanks!”

Sylvia Newhouse of Bleyhl Farm Service, Mike Smark of AgVantage, and Jackie Wilson and Kris Ziemer of Eaton Farm Bureau watched the Twins game.

Cathy Smith, Julie Zarling, and Kaycee Hintz of WFS competed in the costume contest as the USA Ping Pong Team!

Patty Guck, Lakes Area Co-op, and her daughter Sam-mie enjoyed the Twins vs. Phillies game at Target Field.

Stone Arch Bridge Walk— About 30 attendees got up at 6 a.m. on Thursday to get some exercise before the confer-ence classes started for the day! Photo by Terry Bell

AgVantage Synchronized Swim Team gave an amazing

performance on Wednesday morn-ing during the general session.

(left to right) Michelle Sirosky, Mark Meyer, Pat Badger, Dave Streiff,

Dawn Nemechek, and Chuck Bohanon

Costume Contest— They couldn’t actually win since they’re AgVantage employees, but they put together a nice effort. Brad Belcher, Michelle Blomberg (top) Mike Smark, Rich Blomberg (front– Michelle’s Dad) Rod Larsen, & Paul Hawes

(right to left) Monte Vista Coop Team at the Twins game: Micheal Boothe, his wife Prissy, Brenda Cooper, Judi Neufeld, and Cindy

McCormick enjoyed the game.

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“Great job,

Awesome

Keynote Speaker,

Best Ever!”

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote on the message board or at the conference. Here are the top CDD ideas for each package. They will start rolling out in V8 which is scheduled for the first install in February 2013. Accounts Payable

Print edits in alphabetic or entry order

Allow multiple payment types (credit card, wire, etc)

Populate void and reconciled check dates

Change outstanding check list to show void & cleared date for proper cutoff

Accounts Receivable

Have the ability to change or correct a payment after it is merged. Unapply incorrect invoices and apply correct

invoices.

Ability to run an auto apply at the end of the month on zero balance accounts

Customer Lookup have the ability to lookup by customer and invoice number

Allow only the number of characters on an invoice description to what will print or display

Energy

Add the ability to access the contract fields in the tank file

Low usage fee field so you can mark tanks that are exempt from the fee

Ability to not have degree compute on tank (just put in a burn like set # of days)

e-mail tank lease

e-mail usage report

Tank lease invoice

General Ledger

Create a new financial statement format to include net change from one period to the next within the same

fiscal year

Reoccurring journal entries, change the way lines are resequenced to allow the user the capability to add a

new posting between current lines

Capability to print out detail for one specific journal entry/merge

Grain

Report of position detail—show shipment/load out number

Purchases – replicate sales control balances with shipment detail

Sales controls – allow alpha/numeric control number

Inventory

Drill down to see purchase, sales, adjustment invoices in invoice inquiry

Report of sell outs – print report if inventory = 0 or less

Have the ability to print a copy of the transfer invoice at the receiving location

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AGVANTAGE SOFTWARE—CUSTOMER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT (CDD) 2012 RESULTS

BONNIE FOHRMAN Vice President, Programming bonnief@agvantage.com

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Payroll

Allow multiple PR for the same day

Separate out “Other” Hours

Add code for type of special pay and query of data

Create and print a 941 with tips separated – upload and submit to government

Allocate insurance by department

eAgVantage CDD

Commodity DPR work order drill down should also show location

Show average cost in drill down for product on DPR

Ending inventory drill down, want to see details for product

Would like to copy or save as new report name in the Gap

AgvantagePC Agronomy CDD

Move application tab to position 1 before formulation tab

Add location drop down box to work order, default to the agronomy settings default location

AgVantagePC Energy CDD

Hold column width in both grids in energy and dispatch after you open and adjust the

columns. Hold until it is changed. Right now it defaults back to a set column size

Bold name and item name fields. Hard to read in sunlight

AgVantagePC Grain Scale

Exception report – tickets with manual weights recorded

Outbound local sales – Splits process in transit in counter invoice ticket

Outbound tickets apply live to sales contract

Outbound shipments print different number of copies than inbound tickets

AgVantagePC Point of Sale CDD

Shift report enhancements – reprint combine daily totals, activity broken out

Add flag to whether PC invoicing uses agronomy work order numbers as the invoice number

Add acres to invoice

Contact and current price levels from the tank dispatch

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EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT: KRISTI WENDRICKS

Customer Services Representative

Birthday: July 3 Education: Associate Degree from Madison Area Technical College, Computer Science Analyst/Programmer Family: Husband Brian, married 13 years. Three children: Taylor (11), Lilly (8), Garret (6) Years with AgVantage: Two, however I have used AgVantage Software for all of my career. Years in the industry: 17 Hobbies: Anything my kids do, they keep me pretty busy with all of their hobbies and activi-ties. We like cars, going to car shows. I love it that my oldest and youngest children can spot a Corvette or a Camaro (nearly any year, new and old) from miles away. We’re still working on the middle child, she’s not quite into it yet. Interesting Fact about yourself: I collect Coke stuff (I know, not that interesting) If I were not working at AgVantage Software, I would be... Living in Hawaii and enjoying the beach all of the time. Maybe that’s not what I actually would be doing, but it’s what I would like to do. What is the favorite part of your job: Getting to talk to so many people and solving their problems and making their day better.

Kristi with her family—. left to right: Garret, Kristi, Taylor, Lilly and Brian

See our Message Board for many Product Enhancements continuously available. Accounts Payable

CDD – Print voucher or check stub for vendors paid by draft

Ability to ACH Account Payable checks

Accounts Receivable

Revolving Fund Accounts

CDD - Identify customer license and expiration date for restricted items

Item Balance file accepts a retail price of $ 100,000.00

Show field on customer inquiry that the customer is an ACH customer

Print the salesman name on the printed invoice instead of salesman number

Use location 1 in Constant File to determine if prepay taxes should be applied

Print ACH payment message on statement

Update customer note field with contract information

Energy Management

CDD Add a function key in A/R master file to get to the tank file

Raise the upper limit of k factor from 40 to 20

General Ledger

Inventory adjustments by location

Grain

Allow multiple users the ability to access PDF directories created from Grain EOD

Ability to prompt for the position date on trade maintenance

EXEC CDD - Grain EOY purchases YTD W/1099 payment amount to PDF

Applied unsettled shipments report – show code it was applied with

EOY Grain payments 1099 – redesigned report

Print storage detail report from captured files

EOM report for unposted price adjustments

Customer information lookup – add adjustments to the control screen

Daily shipments report – add to sales report menu

Track change of delivery start date when amendment flag is on

CDD – Enhancements to EOM Grain statements

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AGVANTAGE SOFTWARE—NEW RELEASES BONNIE FOHRMAN

Vice President, Programming bonnief@agvantage.com

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Interface

Card file for Passport and Pinacle customer numbers

DTN Offers – Ability to create contracts as old or new crop

Agrimine – Add flag to automatic rebuild item cross reference in upload process

Agrimine – Do not send price level D Wholesale records

Customer import into FMS – Account Balances

Inventory Flag for Grain from blends go to GL in bushels eAgVantage

CDD - Multiple salesman changes

AgVantagePC Agronomy

Print services on all documents

Add support for 50 # (non standard) fertilizer unit of measures – dry only

Authority passcode for COD 3 accounts, COD level 4 accounts blocked

Print operator address shipping document (GUI)

CDD – Add setting to determine initial screen

AgVantagePC Dispatch

Hold last delivery type

Unprotect the truck column and add ability to re-sequence column

Show tank information on daily invoice report

AgVantagePC Energy

Show Tank information on daily invoice report

Add member status on front screen

Show serial number on bill to look up selection

Show that there is prepay available on the invoice screen

Allow item discounts to be exported and imported later

Add will call changeable fields to the tank manager screen

Print signature line and purchase order line on invoice

Allow drive to make a budget payment on account

The daily recap report should always print in invoice number order

Invoice detail – add tank information that is on the screen to the report

AgVantagePC Grain Scale

Grain location may now be different than the agronomy blend location

Require bin numbers on sales, purchases and transfers to the scale

Only display lots that are not graded with no certificate number

When off line give message to re-establish connection for the apply feature

Change scale tickets to print lot information when lot is enabled

Ability to create a lot number, filling last crop year, county and state

Add lot # and creating lot # for grading by lots for Pacific NW

Print address on outside weigh only scale tickets – thermal receipt

Add settings for cash GL on multiple pay cash lines

Use “trace” flag in source to determine invoice blend rollup (cont. on next page)

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AgVantagePC Employee Time & Attendance

Ability to inactivate multiple entries at once

Report of vacation/sick for managers

Report of time cards from kiosk and client

Show employees name time card on kiosk

Show vacation /sick balance on kiosk, client and manager

Check box on employee information whether to send work code to ADP file

Allow to change work code on kiosk

Allow automatic lunch by selected work code

Allow semi-monthly, bi–weekly, multiple payrolls

Time card to print “clock” time instead of military

Show if employee punches in from mobile app – Droid

Message to now allow alpha characters when adding new employee numbers

Ability to reallocate time to a different work code

Allow the manager to edit time off date

When an employee is marked inactive, put them on the bottom of the list

Allow employee to make changes to time cards with approval

Show comments on time card

Work codes in alpha order for kiosk, manager

Only active records showing on time off report

Allow lunches for previous days

Manual lunch punch record date selected

Allow printer selection for time card

Recognize alpha work code for lunch

Increase number of exports for ETA

Show name only when entering a number on kiosk

Increase speed when exporting file and generating time cards

Message to inform user to exit program to download updates

Limit ability of administrative users

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E-mailing

Simplify the adding of e-mail address additions and changes

Grain Contracts

Energy Management

CDD – Base delivery on set number of degree days

Interfaces

Activant with new customer interface

DTN get current prices from DTN

Agri Chart interface

Patronage

Lookup screen for all patronage information – prior, current, check history

Payroll

Print all payroll reports in alphabetical order

AgVantage Seed

Seed Connectivity

Query of seed information

Ability to handle the substitute of seed from manufacturers

Alert if there is a negative item on the delivery ticket

AgVantagePC Agronomy

AgLogic import actual quantities used back to Agvantage

Perten moisture tester interface

AgVantagePC Energy

Will add mapping

RFID Truck Identification

AgVantagePC Express Fairbanks interface

Kahler interface

AgVantagePC Invoicing

Ability to do prepay & bookings

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AGVANTAGE SOFTWARE—FEATURES COMING SOON BONNIE FOHRMAN

Vice President, Programming bonnief@agvantage.com