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 330: Boots In The Field Report March 27, 2024
As growers start to roll on planting early beans, Ken Ferrie walks through considerations for deciding when the right time for your operation is. Planting beans in March doesn’t show a large yield ad…
00:05:38 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Episode 329: Boots In The Field Report March 22, 2024
Ken covers questions about using spring anhydrous strip-till or a Zone Builder when facing the possibility of a dry year. There are options that can make it safer but most of them require water. The …
00:06:14 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Episode 328: Boots In The Field Report March 6, 2024
Time spent on planters now can bypass a lot of headaches later and can keep farmers from jumping the gun on doing tillage passes before the ground is fit. A simple test is taking soil right below til…
00:06:38 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
Episode 327: Boots In The Field Report February 23, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie advises growers, if they haven’t gotten their wheat top-dressed, the window to get that on is closing fast. He comments, if tougher wheat stands a…
00:06:01 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Episode 326: Boots In The Field Report February 13, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie answers the question of if freezing and thawing will take out a compaction layer and if it could actually make it worse. He also speaks with Univer…
00:08:42 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Episode 325: Boots In The Field Report January 25, 2024
In this week’s Boots in the Field Report Ken Ferrie answers some questions coming in from winter meetings: Will a spring or fall horizontal tillage pass put in more of a density layer?, Was it allelo…
00:06:06 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Episode 324: Boots In The Field Report January 5, 2024
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie answers a question from a Beyond The Basics viewer from Southwest Ontario. The viewer was asking about nitrogen carryover in red clover, where is t…
00:08:48 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Episode 323: Boots In The Field Report December 21, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie shares his concern on the December 12th drought map for the “I” states and advises growers to close tile gates, if they haven’t already, to keep wh…
00:09:23 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Episode 322: Boots In The Field Report December 4, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken talks with Jared Bergan about the stats from this year’s hybrid flex plot: hybrids added, operations and locations participating, record for highest and l…
00:16:42 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Episode 321: Boots In The Field Report November 22, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers the last of the Hybrid Ear Flex plots that came out this past week, hard pulling conditions, and considerations for growers contemplating go…
00:07:54 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Episode 320: Boots In The Field Report November 14, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie takes a peek into the results that came off the host of plots that came out last week, from N rate, planter fertility, corn nematode, fix/flex, to …
00:10:05 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
Episode 319: Boots In The Field Report November 1, 2023
The rain events are creating some delay for harvest and tillage work and but it also brought lower soil temperatures to get growers closer to safer anhydrous application conditions. While more often …
00:07:56 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Episode 318: Boots In The Field Report October 20, 2023
In this Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers harvest recaps getting called in. Fields that got that heavy rain in August have high ground out yielding low ground, beans that turned too quickly…
00:07:49 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Episode 317: Boots In The Field Report October 13, 2023
In this Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie reports on initial review of soybean plot data that came out this week. He advises that the research crew will have to look at a lot of variables: plantin…
00:07:46 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Episode 316: Boots In The Field Report October 6, 2023
In this week's Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie reports on harvest progress and recounts yields getting called in throughout IL and IA. Wide swings in yield not only throughout the state be in si…
00:07:13 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
Episode 315: Boots In The Field Report September 28, 2023
Join us for this week’s episode of Boots in The Field Report with Ken Ferrie, where he provides a plot and harvest update that's both informative and timely. Ken dives into the ongoing issue of lime …
00:07:24 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Episode 314: Boots In The Field Report September 21, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field report Ken covers why it is more important than usual this year to calibrate the yield monitor to make sure growers are capturing spatially accurate yield maps. Thes…
00:09:50 |
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Episode 313: Boots In The Field Report September 12, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers the range of yields being called in as harvest kicks off and reminds growers to stay on top of the push test when letting corn dry down in t…
00:10:12 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
Episode 312: Boots In The Field Report September 1, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers reasons for seeing so much top die back in the corn. 1. Disease issues like anthracnose top kill will be on sporadic plants in the field, sh…
00:12:50 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Episode 311: Boots In The Field Report August 24, 2023
Ken covers what he saw in his travels through IN, OH, NY, and IA in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. The Eastern region, traveled on way to New York, showed plenty of rain but being further beh…
00:06:20 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
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