Smarter Every Season

Epidsode Topics:

Planter

Sprayer

This weeks topics for spring updates are:

This week's episode topics are as follows:

Tyler, Hans, and Nate get together in the studio to discuss the new feature of Livestream. What situations are best for livestream, how do we handle when we want to jump to livestreaming, and when do we utilize the diagnostic timeline?

Tyler is joined by phone with Jake Brune, with Brick Street Precision Ag, as they go through one of the more challenging diagnostic situations jake has encountered.

Jake and Tyler also discuss some of the thoughts that went through Jake's mind as he finally found the solution to the issue at hand.

On this episode of Smarter Every Season, Nate calls out a few different pieces of information from each training class as well as highlights a few helpful notes for resources.

Callout topics:

SRM Base/Exact Emerge - Fold Box Harness compatibility

Liquid - Flow Regulating Valve

Panorama - Dealership Operation and Starlink Subscriptions

Software - Software updating/backdating Compatibility and FieldView Module updates

Wayne Broman of Boeck Farm Outfitters has been helping growers with Precision Planting equipment since Cleansweep hit the market. In this episode, he tells Hans and Tyler the story about one of the most difficult troubleshooting scenarios he has come across.

Tyler and Hans wrap up this series by sharing a couple "top five" lists. Tyler covers some of his favorite interview questions and Hans shares some of his top diagnostic scenarios for newer technicians. We hope you have enjoyed the series. If you have any comments on conversations this inspired, things we missed, or ideas for future episodes we hope you will email them to us at smartereveryseason@ptxag.com

Part 2 of the conversation with Josh Stoller and Hans Stutzman. In this episode, the conversation focuses around how to know if a technician can handle further responsibility, follow-up, and ways to keep an advanced technicians at the dealership.

Part 1 of the conversation with Josh Stoller and Hans Stutzman. In this episode of the series the conversation progresses to how to help a technician grow into an "advanced" technician through giving them desired responsibility. Part 2 of the conversation with Josh and Hans (part 3 of the series) will drop on January 8th in an effort to avoid the holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our linteners!

Join hosts Tyler Hubert and Hans Stutzman as they work their way through this series focusing on how to turn new and existing technicians into advanced technicians. In part one of the series Tyler talks with Zac Preston of Reynolds Ag Solutions to gather his advice on what to identify in the hiring process and how he likes to onboard new technicians to get them ready to support growers.

Tyler tags off of a previous episode on maintenance plans for customers and ties it into a conversation around Grower Surveys. Alex Koehn, General Manager of Dynamic Ag Services, LLC, joins Tyler in studio to discuss what he has done for grower surveys and what he has done to implement changes based off of the surveys.

Nate is joined by other Product Support Team members as they discuss the upcoming dealer development days. Dates are filling up fast, sign up today.

December 1-5, 8-12

January 28-29

Nate plays back a phone call with Lead Commercial Agronomist, Jason Webster, as they discuss what it looks like to do plots on the PTI farm and discuss what it looks like to make good management decisions based on plots.

PTI Book: https://www.precisionplanting.com/pti

Tyler is joined by Chris Hoffmann from P&C Ag Solutions out of Reese Michigan, as they discuss the trials of high call volume during busy season. What things have they done to eliminate calls during the busiest time of the year? What types of calls are they able to eliminate? And what's behind the Pink shirts?

Freya joins Product Support members Nate Burnham and Carl Pflederer for a in season harvest update. We discuss leading call drivers this year and tips for 2025.1.x. You can find the most up to date YieldSense Operator’s Guide here: YieldSense Operator’s Guide | Precision Planting Documentation

Tyler and Freya are joined by Region Manager Ken Sauder in part 2 of this 2 part series. Ken stops by to pass on some wisdon around how to look at a maintenance plan big picture, as well as some of the details to consider to make it a success.

Nate and Tyler get on the phone with Vaughn Koehn with New Day Precision, and Chad Baker with Baker Precision Services, as they discuss what it looks like to create a new maintenance plan as well as what does an established plan look like and how do they evolve as the the years go on.

Drew brings on North Dakota Dealer, Travis Messer, with Plains Grain & Agronomy Cooperative, and they discuss Travis's personal experience with CornerStone.

Freya sits down with Josh Stoller and Aaron Herman to chat about SymphonyVision

Freya and Tyler welcome Lee Edwards onto the show as he talks about the value of getting his growers to PTI and how he accomplishes it.

smartereveryseason@precisionplanting.com

PTI Field Days

This summer at the PTI Farm in Pontiac, IL

Nate and Hans are joined via phone to discuss the PTX Precision Planting head height control, also known as Headsight.

Joining Nate and Hans is Matthew Metzler, Sales and Product Support out of Breman, and Rich Schlipf with Schlipf Precision Ag , as they talk about their own experience with Headsight products as well as things to keep in mind when starting to offer Headsight products as a dealer.

Tyler and Nate are joined by Eric Huber, Region Manager, and Casey Hettinger, Hettinger Farms, as they talk about Panorama. What is it, what success have they seen with Panorama, and what are the cool features around Passmaster. Listen in as they look at some things to watch out for as well as what brought them great success while using Panorama.

Coming out of spring, it's easy to focus on everything that went wrong. Sit back and listen as Nate is joined by Scott Wheelhouse - Breakthrough Ag, Jakie Neudorf - Advanced Precision Ag, Alex Glukhoy - California Ag Solutions, and Brent Gerke - Precision Planting Region Manager, as we hear person stories from wins this past spring.

This weeks topics include

25.1.5

End of planting Maintenance

vApplyHD Winterization Guide

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With planting season well under way, call drivers have slowed in their variance of issues. Replant and needing to delete coverage is starting to creep up, but with the changing of seasons, Josh Robinson joins Nate in studio to talk about getting sprayers rolling. What are the installation, setup, configuration, and spare parts to be thinking about as everything gets rolling?

The episode topics includded are

General

2025.1.x

This weeks topics include

General

2025.1.x

The episode topics are as included:

-       DeltaForce Health check

-       Section EMHD on .0

2025.1.x

-      Failure state causing beeping driving through the field on .1.

-       SpeedTube

-       The blue light on .1 is gone.

-      GPS has been added to the planter

-       Override Mode in DeltaForce

-       Sound loss on .1

Spring Updates are in full swing as calls increase in Support. This week, the topics are as follows"

General

25.1.X

Week two of weekly updates Hans and Nate cover:

With planters already rolling down south, and operations starting up all around the country, the spring updates have arrived. Nate and Hans talk a little bit about what things need to be kept in mind as we start getting planters out and rolling as well as some wide spread diagnostics to keep in mind.

With the diagnostic season upon us, Tyler, Hans, and Clay sit down and discuss some common questions that we get when dealing with hydraulics. What are some of their best pieces of advice when it comes to an install? Where do I start with diagnosing an alternator? And much more as we prep for the busiest season for support.

- Tachometer

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-Hydralic Flow Meter

https://www.hydracheck.com/catalog/flow-products/flow-meter-test-kits/inline-flow-meter-test-kits-reverse-flow-capable/

Aaron Herrmann, Precision Planting R&D Agronomist, joins Nate in studio to talk about one of, as Aaron would state, "the most underrated product in Precision Planting", SmartDepth. What is the king of depth when it comes to depth? What factors impact our decisions when it comes to making depth changes? Listen along as they tackle all of that and more.

Freya sits down with Engineer Ian Radtke and R&D Agronomist, Cory Muhlbauer, to talk about Reveal. We chat on Reveals origin story to the newest developments and how the coulter wheel is making a comeback on Reveal.

Drew and Tyler are joined by Josh Stoller, Region Manager, and Cory Muhlbauer, R&D Agronomist, as they tackle FurrowForce. First, what is the main difference between FurrowForce and other closing systems, followed by the bulk of the conversation around how do I set it for success.

Wendy Ulirich joins Nate in studio as we get to hear a little bit about what's going on in the world of radicle. What things have we learned and what direction is the Automated Soil Sampling System.

We are still adding participants to the Crop Response Trial! Follow the link below for more details.

Radicle Crop Response Trial Link: https://radicle.ag/crop-response-trials

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Freya and Drew are joined with Bryce Baker, Marketing Manager, as they discuss 2025's Winter Conference. What things have stayed the same? What aspects have changed? Bryce also gives some additional advice on how to make an event memorable.

As the new year is upon us, Nate gets the chance to have three Region Managers, Gavin Burges, Eric Huber, and Gabe Scheidt, and two Dealers, Justin Steffen and Jakie Neudorf, in the studio to talk about their new year's resolutions or just some goals for the new year.

Drew and Hans are joined by Product Support Manager, Bryan Jackson, and Support member Kyle hunter as they discuss the ins and outs of setting up specialty crops for success. Getting someone ready to go to the field with a crop that we may not have experience with can be a daunting task. Bryan and Kyle talk about what things go through their minds as they look for the best setup when taking on a new crop.