Hi, I'm Tony Kramer, your host of the Agriculture Technology podcast, and I'm sitting down with agriculture technology and equipment experts to help you enhance your operation for today, tomorrow, and into the future.

In this episode, I talk with Bergen Nelson about some of the combine updates that are going to be coming for model

year 2026. With that, let's dive into the show. Very excited to welcome back to the show,

Bergen Nelson. So Bergen, this is actually your second, maybe even third time on the show here.

I don't remember exactly, but definitely a repeat guess.

So before we get started, why don't you remind our listeners a little bit, you know, who you are, what you do, and how you got to where you are today.

Thanks for having me again.

I'm a go-to-market manager at John Deere covering a lot of our harvesting equipment,

including Combines, Selt Forge Harvesters, and Cotton Pickers.

A go-to-market manager really is taking the new products and bringing them to the market,

helping you as a dealer and our customers gain information about the new product.

And so excited to be here today to talk through kind of what we introduced in Mald Year 25 and into 26.

I've spent almost 10 years now with John Deere in various different roles.

But a lot of my career has been around harvesting equipment.

It's definitely my passion.

I love combines more than

anything, so super excited to talk about it today. Awesome. Well, yeah, like you said, you kind of mentioned

you and I got the opportunity to talk at Commodity Classic last year. We talked about this

amazing launch of the S7 series combine.

So let's rewind a little bit and let's just review, you know, what the S7 series launch was,

what John Deere did to bring that new combine to market.

In Maldivir 25, we introduced the S7 combine, which was a complete refresh to the S-series lineup,

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