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
- 370
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Boots In The Field Report for April 14th
Ken covers planting temps, seed chilling, cutworm flights, insecticide applications, the bean leaf beetle, and reiterates the importance of tillage passes being done now.
00:06:15 |
Fri 14 Apr 2017
Boots In The Field Report for April 7th
Ken covers what the water means for this growing season, what we need to think about to get ready for spring, the importance of patience, and goes over what we will be covering at Farm Journal Corn a…
00:55:24 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
Boots In The Field Report for March 31st
This week Ken gives an insect report for the 2017 growing season and recaps how the mild winter will play into insect pressure.
00:06:57 |
Fri 31 Mar 2017
Boots In The Field Report for March 24th
Listen for Ken's answer to this week's question, how low can we go in soybean populations?
00:03:38 |
Fri 24 Mar 2017
Boots In The Field Report for March 17th
Which is better ESN or Sidedressing? Listen to this week's Boots In The Field Report for Ken's answer.
00:03:19 |
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Boots In The Field Report for March 10th
Is your seed passing the grade? Ken talks the importance of seed grading in this week’s Boots In The Field Report.
00:03:24 |
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Boots In The Field Report for March 3rd
This weeks question is about reducing seed expenses.
00:04:28 |
Fri 03 Mar 2017
Boots In The Field Report for February 17th
70° in February, to till or not to till, that is the question answered in this week's Boots In The Field Report!
00:05:01 |
Fri 17 Feb 2017
Boots In The Field Report for February 10th
In this week's Boots In The Field Report, Ken dissects the strengths and weaknesses of the FurrowJet.
00:02:57 |
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Boots In The Field Report February 3rd
In this week's podcast, Ken discusses if it is too late for tillage and fall burn down?
00:02:41 |
Fri 03 Feb 2017
Boots In The Field Report December 9th
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers what to do if you didn’t get your fall anhydrous on and what to consider when making spring anhydrous decisions. He also comments on the war on wee…
00:07:43 |
Fri 09 Dec 2016
Boots In The Field Report for November 18th
This week in the Boots In The Field Report Ken covers several topics. He touches on plot wrap up, when you can harrow after fall burndown, what we learned from August weather, and the major no-no of …
00:05:47 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Boots In The Field Report for November 11th
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers his thoughts on fall burn down. He also shares the responses he has received from last week’s #AnhydrousWatch2016 and what the guidelines are for w…
00:58:22 |
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Boots In The Field Report for November 3rd
In this week’s Boots in the Field report Ken gives a report as areas are finishing up harvest 2016. He reminders farmers of a couple of things to think about before making plans to move lime applicat…
00:05:46 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
Boots In The Field Report October 28th
Listen this week to the Boots in the Field Report as Ken covers what he found from the inquiry into the sudden drop in bean yields and what to do about it next year. He reminds anyone dealing with ru…
00:06:38 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
Boots In The Field Report October 21st
Ken gives a harvest update, breaks down what he thinks is the cause for the drop in bean yields and taking a harvest by the hour approach, and reminds farmers to wait until soil temps have dropped be…
00:07:55 |
Fri 21 Oct 2016
Boots In The Field Report October14th
In this week’s harvest report Ken covers that tough cutting beans seem to be the story everywhere. He also shares information on what green stem syndrome is and what it looks like in the field. Ken a…
00:12:25 |
Sat 15 Oct 2016
Boots In The Field Report October 7th
Ken touches on the flooding up north in this week’s harvest report as well as the pattern his is seeing with April planted beans. Harvest numbers coming in are showing the importance of knowing if a …
00:12:33 |
Fri 07 Oct 2016
Boots In The Field Report September 30th
Ken gives an updated harvest report and touches on: stalk quality and how it is holding up, watching header loss, a charcoal rot look alike, and some of the data coming out of plots harvested.
00:02:23 |
Fri 30 Sep 2016
Boots In The Field Report September 23rd
Ken gives an update on what has been called in for yield reports in our testing area. Strong yields in both corn and beans coming in, but for most areas still 10-20 bushel less for farm averages than…
00:12:56 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
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