Smarter Every Season

The world of fertilizer is always changing. Products being offered, application methods, and new findings in research. Nate is joined by Stu Hirt as they discuss some of the high level ins and outs of biologicals as they are entering the market. What are they? What are the benefits and costs? And how can we utilize them and available programs to make our operation better? Companies with programs m...

Freya and Drew sit down with Juan Roncoroni the European commercial lead and Alex Gonzalez Vega the Regional manager for Portugal, Spain and Italy to discuss how Precision Planting is doing there.

Nate and Region Manager, Chris Creek, sit down and have a conversation about dealerships, breakthroughs, and how to define roles and responsibilities within a dealership for success. What does the vision of the dealership look like and how do we define our roles accordingly?

Tyler and new podcast member, Drew Stout, are joined in the studio by phone from Canada RM, Shawn Livingston, and dealer Nick Zwambag, as they discuss the topic of finding good growers for Limited Commercial Growers. What type of personalities, geographic aspects, and commitments do you have to consider when selecting a good candidate. They also talk about the costs of not being involved in limite...

Clay and Nate are joined by Product Support Manager and Local farmer Caleb Schleder as they talk about the prevalent issue of high interest rates. What does that look like from a farmers perspective? How can we take a retrofit first approach? And what can we do as a company to help?

Nate is joined by Wendy Ulrich and Doug Wiegand as we hear about the history of Precision Planting from the eyes of Doug from its early beginnings to where Precision is now.

Nate invites one team member from each of this year's training groups to talk about training. What does the class look like, any main topics, and any cool stands that are being used? All of this is discussed during this podcast as well as dates for this year's trainings. For more on training dates and times, visit: https://cloud.precisionplanting.com/news/posts/announcing-dealer-technical-training

Freya starts part two off by inviting Laura Smith into the studio to continue the conversation around hiring. Working in HR, Laura gives a lot of great insight on how to keep employees, make them feel welcomed, helping the current team welcome them, and also practices to keep up on HR tasks in the business. Following Laura and Freya, Matt Bennett finishes off his conversation with Freya and Tyler...

Freya and Tyler bring in Matt Bennett, Region Manager East Central Lead, and talk about the challenges of hiring and how we hire and train to hire for success. What are the questions we ask, traits we look for, and how do we market our jobs to successfully attract top tier talent? Matt covers all of this and more throughout this conversation.

Join hosts Tyler Hubert and Tim Rice as they talk to a very passionate Gabe Scheidt, RM from Colorado/Western Kansas. Gabe covers what Clarity is and how it can be used on air seeders, box drills, and granular strip till bars. He also shares how he explains the value of a Clarity system to a growers operation and a dealers business.

MAKE SURE TO READ SHOW NOTES FOR DETAILS ON COOLER GIVEAWAY! In this episode, Tyler visits with three different Precision Planting dealers to discuss how they approach servicing planters that come into a market with Precision Planting products already on them. The dealers include: -Jeremy Lupardus with Heuss Distributing -Joe Aungst with Feldpausch Precision Services -Randy Klassen with RDK Enterp...

Chandler Bruns is in the studio with Freya and Nate as they talk about the world of marketing within a dealership. What tools do our dealers have, and what support does Precision offer as the marketing team works alongside them to help grow dealerships?

Cold calling, while vital to business, is one of the most intimidating things to do when in sales. What are some of the tips and tricks that drives success when out on a cold call? Nate and Freya welcome Jason Cox and Dusty Kruse onto the podcast as we tackle the ins and outs of cold calling. Grizzly Cooler Giveaway: To enter, email smartereveryseason@precisionplanting.com and give your name, deal...

With spring mostly wrapped up, product support has turned a lot of attention to getting ready for PTI. Crop tours and Ride and Drive are just around the corner. 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 Summer Events | Precision Planting | Ag Tech & Agronomy So...

Nate and Hans have tackled the conversation around Reclaim and looking forward into what Precision has planned for sprayers. They are joined by Will Frank from R&D as he discusses Reclaim and much more. Links: Sprayers 101 – A Resource for Safe, Effective and Efficient Spraying in Agriculture. Sprayers101 - YouTube smartereveryseason@precisionplanting.com

Freya and Net get on the phone with Lucas Wesley and Ike Brammell as they discuss moving from spring into summer and how they go about creating new relationships and in turn business. Stick around after the episode for a brief reminder from Wendy Ulrich around YieldSense and pulling the combine out for the first time this season.

Four members of the podcast team (Freya Watson, Nate Burnham, Clay Scott, and Tyler Hubert) look back on spring and have a light-hearted conversation around some of their favorite stories and things they learned....kind of like the title indicates.

Talking points for this episode include: -How to use/think through the effective row spacing option -Hans passes on tip and things to watch for when diagnosing issue post-emergence -A reminder that seeding calculator are available to help calculate vdrive RPM, spacing, and target pop based on spacing. https://cloud.precisionplanting.com/product-calculators/ -Expectations with mapping in sidedress...

Talking points for his episode include: -A couple items to watch for in the diagnose screen when running section based EMHD or HD turbines removed. -Where to find replant instructions https://s3.amazonaws.com/pp3-products/file-1569865917/Precision%20Planting%20Replant%20Instructions%20(900T095).pdf -Where to find the resource to calibrate vdrive insecticide on a Gen 3 https://s3.amazonaws.com/pp3-...

Talking notes for this episode include: -Flow rate adjust reminders and here is a link to the flow rate adjustment worksheet https://s3.amazonaws.com/pp3-products/file-1643726560/Flow%20Rate%20Adjustment%20and%20Orifice%20Worksheet.pdf -A couple things to watch for with command and actual flow around the vApply Rate controller in the manual health check. -A reminder some GPS systems will output lo...

Talking Points for this episode include: -Hans passes along advice for how to diagnose when orifices are too small and passes along where to find helpful resources to find the proper orifice for a growers product or system. Videos on finding proper orifices can be found under vApply HD operators section of the cloud. -Flow rate adjust tips. Included here is a link to a flow rate adjust worksheet t...

Talking points covered in this episode include: -Hans passes along tips for alternator diagnostics -Explaining what event code 914 is and why it looks like (but usually isn't) a bad load cell -What to watch for when the pump wont spin when running the manual liquid test to do a pump cal -Key-switch power diagnostics and what to be aware of to not mis-diagnose a bad PDM solenoid -What to be aware o...

Topics covered in this episode include: -What to watch for when assigning left/right offsets on a planter with 4 seed exits on a Gen 3 -A note on changes in certain sound affects in the Gen 3 -We are still seeing a number of phone calls on EMFlowsense and HD. A number of resources were mentioned in last weeks episode that are still highly recommended -For best practices, make sure Rx files are on...

Topics covered in this episode include: -Recommended oil for the FurrowForce and AirForce compressors. Rolair brand synthetic. Part Number 200351 -Updated installation resources for Reveal -We are experiencing a number of calls with questions that were addressed in the 2023.0 Virtual Refresher Training. Here is a link to the recording. Specifically, the liquid system setup portion from 9:13-18:18...

Bryan Jackson and Scott Van Etten are guests today talking with Clay and Nate about ground engaging components giving us a recap of training as well as some good sound recommendations. Following with our series of shop hacks, Tyler interviews Justin King as he talks about his shop's best hack to get them through installs in a timely manner.