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
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
Episode 349: Boots In The Field Report December 23, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken answers a question that came in from a Beyond the Basics series viewer concerning what to consider when laying out a 4R nutrient plan that involves manure…
00:08:37 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
Episode 348: Boots In The Field Report December 12, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers some things to consider when evaluating how many acres to allot for new hybrids that are winning yield contests. He also has an interview di…
00:10:07 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
Episode 347: Boots In The Field Report November 22, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie walks through considerations for fall tillage and if the window closes, plan Bs for getting ready next spring. He explains the different considerat…
00:06:52 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
Episode 346: Boots In The Field Report November 1, 2024
A 4R nitrogen plan starts now. In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie reminds growers that if they are applying anhydrous this fall that they need to do it in conditions that will allow …
00:06:08 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Episode 345: Boots In The Field Report October 28, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie talks early plot results from fields harvested last week and also walks growers through options on fall tillage for the dry conditions we are facin…
00:09:15 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
Episode 344: Boots In The Field Report October 11, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie advises growers to have a harvest fire plan, and make sure everyone is aware of the plan and their part in the plan. In the dry areas he also recom…
00:05:24 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Episode 343: Boots In The Field Report September 27, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie says yield information is coming in slow, but yield reports are strong. How yields are affected by this late season drought depends on soil type, …
00:07:39 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
Episode 342: Boots In The Field Report September 5, 2024
If you aren’t seeing photocopy stands and photocopy ears, do a little investigation before the combine rolls through to figure where adjustments need to be made for next year to improve your systems …
00:06:13 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
Episode 341: Boots In The Field Report August 30, 2024
Ken gives a crop condition recap and a pest scout report from farm visits. The dry weather has some big ears wanting to tip down early and nitrogen deficiencies are showing up strong in fields that d…
00:04:50 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
Episode 340: Boots In The Field Report August 19, 2024
In this week’s #BIFR Ken gives a crop report both locally and on the road from OH, IA, and IN and recaps what he sees as the biggest risk to each area in finishing out their growing season.
00:08:46 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Episode 339: Boots In The Field Report August 5, 2024
Ken Ferrie covers crop conditions from his farm visits in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. He reports cases of SDS, white mold, red crown rot, aphids, and tar spot. He mentions that this is the…
00:09:26 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
Episode 338: Boots In The Field Report July 8, 2024
During the roundtrip from Heyworth, Illinois to Northeast Iowa and back, the area affected by heavy rains was larger than Ken was expecting to see. In this week’s Boots In The Field Report he gives a…
00:21:31 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
Episode 337: Boots In The Field Report June 17, 2024
Ken talks hail replant, no-tilling beans after wheat to conserve moisture, ugly corn phase and carbon penalty locking up some beans, need for doing stand evaluations now to document cause of uneven s…
00:11:33 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Episode 336: Boots In The Field Report May 30, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers planting progress, replant reports, stand evaluations, sidedressing information and predictions of the ugly corn phase. He also gives his pe…
00:09:23 |
Thu 30 May 2024
Episode 335: Boots In The Field Report May 22, 2024
Planting is nearing a close for most operations, but the jobs of the pest scout are just getting rolling. Ken covers what they should be on the lookout for in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. S…
00:09:08 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Episode 334: Boots In The Field Report May 9, 2024
Ken Ferrie walks through considerations for planting strategies for this time of year and field moisture conditions in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. Since the window for pre-solstice floweri…
00:06:52 |
Thu 09 May 2024
Episode 333: Boots In The Field Report April 30, 2024
How well or long seeds will survive underwater depends on many factors including hybrid/variety type, seed quality, how far along the crop is, and temperature. In this week’s Boots In The Field Repor…
00:06:15 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Episode 332: Boots In The Field Report April 24, 2024
After Thursday morning’s frost warning is through most of Central IL will be moving to a green light for planting corn and will hold most likely till the end of planting. Green light is in regards to…
00:04:18 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Episode 331: Boots In The Field Report April 9, 2024
With the predicted weather for Central IL, Ken gives a green light for full season beans on ground that is fit and sees a window for a possible green light for corn starting as early as this weekend.…
00:06:28 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
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