Boots In The Field Report
One of the founding pillars of Crop-Tech Consulting is integrating a systems approach to farming. Crop-Tech is continually adding to their expertise and services. To aid in this process, CTC conducts over 150 test plots every year and works in conjunction with Farm Journal to gather research data on the industry’s equipment, practices, and technology. The Boots in the Field Report features Crop-Tech Consulting agronomist Ken Ferrie. He will keep you up-to-date by describing what he is seeing while in the field.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 369
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Episode 369: Boots In The Field Report August 26, 2025
In this Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie recaps his Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois farm visits comparing disease and insect pressure, pollination progress, moisture status, and yiel…
00:10:00 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Episode 368: Boots In The Field Report August 13, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie reports high variability from field to field in pollination issues and disease pressure for corn in central IL. Between tip pull back, tar spot, an…
00:18:30 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Episode 367: Boots In The Field Report July 31, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers how heavy fog delayed pollination and what problems that caused. He advises scouting the fields and noting the issues with pollination now when the…
00:07:07 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Episode 366: Boots In The Field Report July, 14, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie covers how current weather patterns are setting the stage in Tar Spot Alley and shares an update on three new counties where tar spot has been co…
00:11:53 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Episode 365: Boots In The Field Report July 3, 2025
Ken covers how pollination uniformity can change the amount of silk clipping pressure a field can take, wide spread potassium deficiencies, how bean stage needs to be evaluated before doing rescue ap…
00:14:32 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 364: Boots In The Field Report June 20, 2025
In this week "Boots In The Field Report" Ken Ferrie dives deep into the "carbon penalty." He explains what this is, what specific conditions trigger it, and why growers are seeing a significantly wor…
00:18:08 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Episode 363: Boots In The Field Report June 13, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie catches up with Matt Duesterhaus in the western part of the state and they talk about beans caught in the carbon penalty, herbicide carryover, sul…
00:18:04 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Episode 362: Boots In The Field Report May 30, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken talks evaluating stands and diagnosing causes of non-uniformity. He covers why growers may have seen even emergence initially but now are seeing uneven pl…
00:12:12 |
Fri 30 May 2025
Episode 361: Boots In The Field Report May 23, 2025
This week on the "Boots in the Field Report," Ken discusses the recent weather and dust storms, highlighting concerns about residue, sandblasting, and replant decisions. He also addresses nutrient a…
00:06:35 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Episode 360: Boots In The Field Report May 16, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers why timeliness is important when it comes to making replant decisions and how accurate stand counts and ear counts are crucial in making the…
00:07:33 |
Mon 19 May 2025
Episode 359: Boots In The Field Report May 2, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie covers the good coming from this rain delay for spreading out our crop stages and reducing risks. He also reminders growers to switch up planting …
00:05:22 |
Fri 02 May 2025
Episode 358: Boots In The Field Report April 22, 2025
With a green light for planting corn in central IL this week, Ken advises growers to spend a lot of time on the ground checking planter settings to make sure it is set correctly before going full out…
00:06:25 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Episode 357: Boots In The Field Report April 8, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie talks about thinking through conserving water with your tillage decisions, reminds growers to hoe before they know and recaps what the seed result…
00:10:06 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Episode 356: Boots In The Field Report March 25, 2025
The first podcast on what to consider when changing to corn on corn produced a flurry of questions coming in, so this week Ken dives into questions like: Which fields do I choose for going corn on co…
00:13:34 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Episode 355: Boots In The Field Report March 17, 2025
This week in the Boots In The Field Podcast, Ken Ferrie talks spring anhydrous warnings, compaction from 1st pass reminder and tips to think about with early beans
00:06:52 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Episode 354: Boots In The Field Report March 10, 2025
With current commodity prices, several growers are looking at switching some fields to corn on corn for a better ROI. In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie issues some reminders of thin…
00:09:17 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
Episode 353: Boots In The Field Report March 3, 2025
While we don’t plan for a drought, we can make sure we are picking the right hybrid for the ground and our management style that will mitigate risks like a drought. Matching defensive ground with a d…
00:09:59 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
Episode 352: Boots In The Field Report February 7, 2025
In this weeks episode Ken Ferrie gives an update on where we stand with 45Z
00:07:35 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
Episode 351: Boots In The Field Report January 21, 2025
This winter growers are asking about what to do when they notice they have stand issues and Ken Ferrie gives some tips for how to hunt down the root of the problem in this week’s Boots In The Field R…
00:06:43 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Episode 350: Boots In The Field Report January 3, 2025
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie answers a grower’s question about if you can create enough efficiency in banding fertilizer in beans to be able to reduce the amount of product ap…
00:06:57 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
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