Mobile dealers specializing in local meat products: aglocal

An American start-up company called Aglocal, although not yet online, has a unique entrepreneurial perspective that has earned 1 million of billions of dollars in investment. What kind of creativity attracts these VC eyes? Two words "eat local meat".

On the Aglocal.com Web page, which is not officially online, the site is clearly written: "Aglocal makes it easier and more convenient for anyone to buy or sell meat products from local sources."

According to the plan, aglocal will be a mobile internet based app product that connects local meat suppliers and users to provide logistics options, electrical quotient and social networking capabilities. In addition, aglocal plans to extract a portion of each transaction, and to create a food storage room for local users, to be left to hungry people in need.

Aglocal that this product can support the local economy, reduce transport costs, and establish a supply channel for fresh meat products. Currently on the Aglocal page, manufacturers, vendors and users have been registered.

According to the plan, aglocal will be on the turn of the summer and autumn on the official line, the above mentioned in the 100 dollar financing, it is for this line of protection: aglocal need to establish a technology platform, hire more engineers to join, and contact with potential partners.

Why is there such an idea? One of Aglocal's founders, Nathan Jones, replied simply, "I like meat."

Aside from the focus on green agriculture, Nathan Jones thought more of it, he did not recognize the farmers market, he used the most suitable price to buy the best quality of meat, because the farmers market system will control, how to use the Internet to break the system? The result of this thinking is aglocal.

However, Jones soon realized that it was unrealistic and unsustainable for consumers to buy meat directly from farmers every day. "Even if people say they want to, they don't really have to buy it in this way, they want to buy it from more trusted grocery stores and butchers," he said. ”

The problem, on the other hand, comes from farmers who do not do business in this way because they do not have the time to transport meat products throughout the city. If aglocal into the consumer market, which means it is possible to become a supply chain company, this is not what Jones wants.

So Jones began to think in another direction--who was the biggest buyer of meat and decided to make an effort from these people. In the United States, many dealers will directly sell meat products to consumers, a large number of distributors are independent, will not be more than a large dealer such as Monsanto (famous American agricultural and biochemical companies), but still has a considerable scale.

Through aglocal, these dealers can buy meat directly from farmers, while at the same time they can become sellers who sell directly to consumers. For the user, Aglocal is able to provide a mobile solution to let them know where to find a steady supply of local meat products in the city.

"Sustainability" is Aglocal's core keyword, and in Jones's view, many farmers have the ability to expand their farms and increase production capacity to more than 4 times times, but they do not. One reason is that, if they still need to maintain profits after expanding capacity, their only buyers are Monsanto, but the 3-to-4 times-fold workload is still very low.

If not sold to these companies, they can only go door-to-door to sell more produced products, or sell to local restaurants, but farmers do not have time to do these things.

"98% of households in the United States are family-independent farms, and if they want to scale up they usually work with a processing workshop, but these meat products, such as chicken, beef and pork, are more valuable to the market than they are before they are processed," he said. But these farmers do not have the means to meet these needs, which is why we do aglocal. "said Jones.

These farmers can provide the expansion of capacity to dealers, to obtain more profits, and do not pay attention to transport problems. Dealers are sold directly to consumers through aglocal.

In addition to raising farmers ' profits, aglocal wants to change some food safety conditions. For example, meat processing plants, usually very crowded, but also injected antibiotics into the animal body, consumers eat such meat, but increased medical costs, but this is the current situation.

Currently, Aglocal has a team of 7 people, operating in Kansas, USA, which will be launched throughout the United States in the late summer or early autumn.

Reviews：

Although the United States and China's agricultural environment is not the same, but Aglocal's creativity is very reference: at least in the north of these first-tier cities, there have been more and more white-collar workers began to pay attention to food safety problems, even in the suburbs of farmland, but they also often worry about a single vegetable varieties, And a vegetable to eat not finish, the farm every day the growth of vegetables, harvest is also difficult to timely disclosure to consumers, at this time, is there a Community + mobile business app opportunities?