Equipment Episodes
Every Ag View Pitch conversation on equipment — summaries, key takeaways, and full transcripts.
Episode 779
Will your farm survive 8 generations?
Quint Pottinger explains how outside investors solved his succession problem and how autonomy let him sell equipment and return $400,000 to the farm.
Episode 769
Spring agronomy update: planter settings, spray tips, and on-farm trials
Agronomist Troy Deutmeyer on planter depth checks worth 8 to 12 bushels, spray tip wear, 3 to 4 pounds of AMS, and 140,000 soybean populations.
Episode 766
Animal deterrent systems with Mike DeSa
Marine turned ag tech founder Mike DeSa on using AI vision and a green laser to move flocking birds off crops, feedlots and aquaculture ponds.
Episode 764
Tires = profitability
Ben Paskowitz of NTS Tire Supply explains how dropping field tire pressure below 15 PSI cuts compaction, wins back 5 to 6 bushels an acre and saves fuel.
Episode 763
Farm Profit Manager app release
Shay Foulk walks through the Farm Profit Manager app: free online and Excel versions, field-level cost analysis, equipment costs, and benchmarking.
Episode 761
Protein sovereignty: autonomous chicken tractor
Zack Smith on six years of StockCropper: pigs, sheep and chickens grazed between corn strips, 434.9 bushel corn at PTI, and $15,000 an acre gross.
Episode 758
Drone for the farm?
Matt Hatcher on what a spray drone really costs: 3,000 to 6,000 fungicide acres per drone, $2,500 to $3,500 chemical liability, and tender sizing.
Episode 756
Harvest Guard Solutions debut
Nathan Albert shows how Harvest Guard Solutions pulls John Deere Operations Center data into one maintenance app and adds technician support behind it.
Episode 753
Proactive farm planning for future success
Ben Gordon breaks down rented acre risk, the three-year capital plan, and why scale swings $200 to $300 an acre in buying and selling power.
Episode 738
Business lessons from 2025, solutions for 2026
The Ag View team names what 2025 taught them: right-size machinery, track your time, delegate faster, and build a State of the Farm talk for your banker.
Episode 716
Grain baggers: costs, logistics, and market opportunities
What grain bagging really costs: 8 cents a bushel for the bag, about 25 cents in and out, bag sizes, moisture limits, and when the market carry pays.
Sep 2025
Profit Manager 101
Chris and Shay explain how Profit Manager builds a one-page cost of production, why return to management overhead gets missed, and how to cost each pass.
Episode 694
Farming, family and strip-till
Three generations of the Foulk family on anhydrous-only strip-till, soil structure after 5 inches of rain, sharing equipment, and handing a farm over.
Episode 685
WHIN for the farmers
Josh Parshin explains how the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network vets ag technology, runs pilots on member farms, and negotiates prices for growers.
Episode 661
Agronomic insights: Keys to a successful planting season
Pioneer agronomist Troy Deutmeyer covers mid-40s soil temps, checking planter depth on every row, full herbicide rates, and flag tests for emergence.
Episode 646
The Equipment Expense Report: Current Value Trends and Tips
Brent Judisch of P&K Equipment reports which tractors and combines have dropped 10-15%, why sprayers hold value, and when leasing beats buying.
Episode 591
The Joe Paulson and Andy Hruby story
Andy Hruby and Joe Paulson explain how custom chopping, a shared chemical LLC, and a machinery LLC let them grow acres and equipment without owning it all.
Episode 589
Late spring planting: best agronomic practices
Troy Deutmeyer on planting into wet soils: why May 20 matters, seeding rate bumps of 10 to 20 percent, sidewall compaction, and replant stand counts.
Episode 580
Spring planting agronomy update
Pioneer agronomist Troy Deutmeyer on planting depth, soybean spacing, variable rate seeding from 110 to 170, full rate pre herbicides and sulfur response.
Episode 574
Dad's wisdom: With Mike Oberbroeckling
Mike Oberbroeckling on buying good used equipment, using credit as a tool, a hog expansion that failed, and the land he wishes he had bought sooner.
Episode 569
Success depends upon proper preparation. Spring is coming
Brent Judisch on spring prep: sprayer wheel motor oil, tip life, closing wheel alignment, planter hitch height, and the tire pressures farms get wrong.
Episode 546
Managing your farm data for profit
Agronomist Lewis Stearns lists the four data errors that wreck yield maps: mislabeled products, bad calibrations, multiple combines, and lost files.
Episode 529
Crop update and key combine settings
Brent Judisch walks through deck plates, concave level, sickle guards, yield monitor calibration, and chopper knives before you start the combine.
Episode 515
A buyer's market on combines
Brent Judisch counts 1,400 used Deere Class 8 combines three years old or less, plus interest waivers, 2.9% money, and a tight tillage and planter market.
Episode 511
Dad's wisdom with Gary Monson in Colfax, Washington
Gary Monson on getting his first lease in 1978, splitting the ranch in 2007, the equipment he kept too long, and letting his sons make their own decisions.
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