Smarter Every Season
Technology Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Technology Podcasts
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Contact:
3099255050
Episodes
156: Training Callouts and Resources
2/19/2026
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
Duration:00:10:46
155. Tell Me a Diagnostic Story: Wayne Broman
2/5/2026
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.
Duration:00:14:54
154. Training Your Technicians to Replace You - Part 4
1/22/2026
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
Duration:00:26:52
153. Training Your Technicians to Replace You - Part 3
1/8/2026
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.
Duration:00:32:30
152. Training Your Technicians to Replace you - Part 2
12/18/2025
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!
Duration:00:30:18
151: Training Your Technicians to Replace You - Part 1
12/4/2025
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.
Duration:00:35:17
150: Grower Serveys
11/20/2025
Tyler tags off of a previous episode on maintenance plans for customers and ties it into a conversation around Grower Serveys. Alex Koehn, General Manager of Dynamic Ag Services, LLC, joins Tyler in studio to discuss what he has done for grower serveys and what he has done to implement changes based off of the serveys.
Duration:00:19:20
149: Dealer Development Days 2025
11/6/2025
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
Duration:00:17:50
148: Plots and Management Decisions
10/23/2025
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
Duration:00:38:07
147: Eliminating Busy Season Calls
10/9/2025
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?
Duration:00:23:05
146. Answering Your 25.1.x Harvest Questions
9/25/2025
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
Duration:00:14:10
145: Maintenance Programs - Part 2
9/11/2025
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.
Duration:00:33:35
144: Maintainance Programs
8/28/2025
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 maintainance plan as well as what does an established plan look like and how do they evolve as the the years go on.
Duration:00:51:46
143: CornerStone Spring Testimony
8/14/2025
Drew brings on North Dakota Dealer, Travis Messer, with Plains Grain & Agronomy Cooperative, and they discuss Travis's personal experience with CornerStone.
Duration:00:23:32
142. The Value SymphonyVision Brings to Your Operation
7/31/2025
Freya sits down with Josh Stoller and Aaron Herman to chat about SymphonyVision
Duration:00:51:16
141: Re-Air: The Value of PTI to You and Your Growers
7/17/2025
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
Duration:00:29:03
140: Experience with Headsight
7/3/2025
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.
Duration:00:56:00
139: Success With Panorama
6/19/2025
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.
Duration:00:48:18
138: Spring Wins of 2025
6/5/2025
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.
Duration:00:20:17
137: Spring Updates 5-22-25
5/22/2025
This weeks topics include
25.1.5
End of planting Maintenance
vApplyHD Winterization Guide
https://assets2.brandfolder.io/bf-boulder-prod/84mntx752mbq2cskf6ftn89b/v/1081484808/original/vApply%20Service%20and%20Maintenance%20(955731).pdf
Duration:00:10:12