The Smarter Every Season crew was asked to tackle the subject of Planter Maintenance. As every manufacturer and supplier has notes and details on the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW' of planter maintenance, we wanted to dive deeper into the 'WHY' behind each maintenance task and provide the mechanical or agronomic costs and incentives to proper planter maintenance.

We continue this series on Planter Maintenance with a discussion on Planter Maintenance: Seed Tubes, Seed Tube Guards, & Keeton Seed Firmers.

The Smarter Every Season crew was asked to tackle the subject of Planter Maintenance. As every manufacturer and supplier has notes and details on the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW' of planter maintenance, we wanted to dive deeper into the 'WHY' behind each maintenance task and provide the mechanical or agronomic costs and incentives to proper planter maintenance.

We continue this series on Planter Maintenance with a discussion on Planter Maintenance: Disk Openers, Gauge Wheels, and Depth Adjustments

The Smarter Every Season crew was asked to tackle the subject of Planter Maintenance. As every manufacturer and supplier has notes and details on the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW' of planter maintenance, we wanted to dive deeper into the 'WHY' behind each maintenance task and provide the mechanical or agronomic costs and incentives to proper planter maintenance.

We continue this series on Planter Maintenance with a discussion on Row Cleaners and Parallel Arms

The Smarter Every Season crew was asked to tackle the subject of Planter Maintenance. As every manufacturer and supplier has notes and details on the 'WHAT' and the 'HOW' of planter maintenance, we wanted to dive deeper into the 'WHY' behind each maintenance task and provide the mechanical or agronomic costs and incentives to proper planter maintenance. We're starting this series off by laying out the vision for the next few episodes and diving straight into the first topic: Planter bar height and levelness.

The Smarter Every Season crew invites their colleagues Allen Huber and Emil Bandy into the studio for a discussion on the release of 2021.1.0 software; the limited release software version for the upcoming spring. Hosts Nolan and Paul get insight on whats new in this version, what to expect, and how to be prepared. The conversation includes:

• The Precision culture and beta process; in software form
• Production Stability
• Limited Release enhancements and new features
• Products enabled:
• SmartDepth
• Row Cleaner Module
• EM FlowSense
• New Features
• Prescription Editor
• Tank Mix
• 2020.0.x to 2021.0.x update process notes

The Smarter Every Season crew pulls input from 6 of our Regional Managers on the biggest potential risks and opportunities to our listeners success in the spring of 2021. Tyler and Paul share audio clips and a summary of the Region Managers perspectives on the risks and territories that are most pressing in their territories. The conversation includes input from:

• Justin Sullivan - SouthEast region
• Ivan Lentsch - Western Nebraska
• Matt Grove - Northwest region
• Eric Huber - East Central Illinois
• Ken Sauder - Indiana
• Shawn Livingston - Eastern Canada

The Smarter Every Season Team sits down and talks about meter testing with product support member Bryan Jackson.

Join us as we discuss a wide range of topics related to meters!

1. Common Pit falls of each meter
2. Value of a calibrated meter for diagnostics
3. Speciality Crops and how to run them
4. Yield value of a calibrated meter
5. eFlow (Seed Lubrication)

In the final of three episodes with Agronomists Cory Muhlbauer and Aaron Hermann the conversation focuses on multi-hybrid planting. Below are some of the talking points:

-How OM zone management should be handled for the purposes of multi-hybrid planting

-What hurdles exist to doing multi-hybrid and how they can be overcome

-Baby steps toward multi-hybrid planting

-Advice on how to create good local multi-hybrid data

On this episode of Smarter Every Season, Agronomists Cory Muhlbauer and Aaron Hermann are back. This time they are helping listeners thoroughly understand variable rating, from the benefits to overcoming perceived challenges associated with it. Continue reading to see some of the key talking points.

-Why would a grower want to variable rate?

-How to approach variable rating with concerns around weather variability.

-Advice for anyone struggling to find the right seeding rate(s) to use. 

-Finding the right liquid rate

-Ranking seeding, hybrid, fertilizer, and depth in terms of which provides the most value to a grower who wants to start variable rating

-How to grade VR to see if it was beneficial

The Smarter Every Season crew has their first Precision Planting Premier Dealer (Jake Brune) on the Podcast for his suggestion of a topic he would like to learn more about. Based on his suggestion, the guys host Agronomists Cory Muhlbauer and Aaron Hermann as they take a deep dive into SmartFirmer metrics and the significance of Organic Matter (OM) to a grower. The conversation includes:

-Jake explains the topic in his own words for the Smarter Every Season team to investigate

-The power of the SmartFirmer Metrics: Furrow Moisture, Uniform Furrow, and Clean Furrow 

-What is Organic Matter and why is it so important?

-Organic Matter’s correlation to yield potential

-Can OM ever be too high?

-Hosts Tyler and Paul wrap up with their learnings on what to do when high OM zones do not correlate to higher yield