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Being successful in business, farming, or life means overcoming new challenges everyday. Join Precision Planting's Product Support team as we deliver new learnings and unpack deeper understanding with each episode. We will be interviewing, investigating and sharing our conversations from customers, engineers, dealers, sales managers, product support and more. Smarter Every Season is the premiere Precision Planting podcast for anyone excited to follow along and learn with us.
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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, 8-12January 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.comPTI Field DaysThis 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 UpdateEnd of planting MaintenancePlate storageSpeedTube storageLiquid System WinterizationCleaning the planter Wear parts inspectionvApplyHD Winterization Guidehttps://assets2.brandfolder.io/bf-boulder-prod/84mntx752mbq2cskf6ftn89b/v/1081484808/original/vApply%20Service%20and%20Maintenance%20(955731).pdf
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 Specialty Crops Row spacing vs. Effective row spacing/Controlled row spacingImporting Prescriptions 2025.1.x Current .1 version to be onRate Control Module modes Using liquid as a coverage source
This weeks topics include General Flow Rate Adjustment and Orifice Worksheet https://cloud.precisionplanting.com/product-resources/planter/flowsenseEMFlowSense plumbed backwards Flow Source with vApplyHDGen 2 Liquid systems 2025.1.x Row Cleaner Alerts vApply Base Calibrations
The episode topics are as included:- DeltaForce Health check- Section EMHD on .02025.1.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
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