DbContext trying to save non-null fields as null

I have two projects

StoreSku.Data - Depends On: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
StoreSku.Provider - Depends On: StoreSku.Data, Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

I don't want to tie StoreSku.Data to any particular provider, so I've moved that reposonsibility to StoreSku.Provider. I'm creating the model and options within StoreSku.Provider and passing the options into the DbContext using the following code:

var optionsBuilder = new DbContextOptionsBuilder();
optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer(connectionString);

var conventions = new ConventionSet();
var modelBuilder = new ModelBuilder(conventions);

modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().HasKey(request => request.Id);
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.Id).UseSqlServerIdentityColumn();
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.StoreNumber).ValueGeneratedNever();
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.BusinessDate).ValueGeneratedNever();
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.Timestamp).ValueGeneratedNever();
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().HasMany(request => request.RequestedUpdates).WithOne(update => update.UpdateRequest);
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().HasMany(request => request.RelatedUpdates).WithOne(relatedUpdate => relatedUpdate.UpdateRequest);
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().ForSqlServerToTable("StoreSkuUpdateRequest");

modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuAvailabilityUpdate>().HasOne(update => update.UpdateRequest).WithMany(request => request.RequestedUpdates);
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuAvailabilityUpdate>().HasMany(update => update.RelatedUpdates).WithOne(relatedUpdate => relatedUpdate.RequestedUpdate);
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuAvailabilityUpdate>().ForSqlServerToTable("RequestedStoreSkuUpdate");

modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedStoreSkuUpdate>().HasOne(relatedUpdate => relatedUpdate.RequestedUpdate).WithMany(update => update.RelatedUpdates);
modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedStoreSkuUpdate>().HasOne(relatedUpdate => relatedUpdate.UpdateRequest).WithMany(request => request.RelatedUpdates);
modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedStoreSkuUpdate>().ForSqlServerToTable("RelatedStoreSkuUpdate");

optionsBuilder.UseModel(modelBuilder.Model);

DbContextOptions options = optionsBuilder.Options;

As you can see, it's pretty verbose. Whether I need all of these calls is a different question. My question focuses more along these lines:

modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.StoreNumber).ValueGeneratedNever();
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.BusinessDate).ValueGeneratedNever();
modelBuilder.Entity<StoreSkuUpdateRequest>().Property(request => request.Timestamp).ValueGeneratedNever();

The error that I've run into is that if I don't have these lines, I get the following errors:

Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'StoreNumber', table 'dbo.StoreSkuUpdateRequest'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.
Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'BusinessDate', table 'dbo.StoreSkuUpdateRequest'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.
Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Timestamp', table 'dbo.StoreSkuUpdateRequest'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.

The schema for this table is

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[StoreSkuUpdateRequest](
[Id] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[StoreNumber] [int] NOT NULL,
[BusinessDate] [date] NOT NULL,
[Timestamp] [datetime] NOT NULL)

And the model

public sealed class StoreSkuUpdateRequest
{
    [Required]
    public long Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public int StoreNumber { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime BusinessDate { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime Timestamp { get; set; }
}

And the calling code:

using (Context)
{
    var request = new StoreSkuUpdateRequest
    {
        StoreNumber = 12345,
        BusinessDate = DateTime.UtcNow,
        Timestamp = DateTime.UtcNow
    };
    Context.StoreSkuAvailabilityUpdateRequests.Add(request);

    Context.SaveChanges();
}

And the SQL command being generated is

BEGIN TRANSACTION

SET NOCOUNT ON;
INSERT INTO [StoreSkuUpdateRequest]
DEFAULT VALUES;
SELECT [Id]
FROM [StoreSkuUpdateRequest]
WHERE @@ROWCOUNT = 1 AND [Id] = scope_identity();

ROLLBACK TRANSACTION 

Why do I have to specify ValueGeneratedNever(); for each of these properties? Why is EFCore trying to save them as null?