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 310: Boots In The Field Report August 3, 2023
Ken uses this #BIFR to catch up on pest reports, update tar spot locations, cyst pressure coming around traits, how last week’s heat affected this crop and why you don’t want to group up your pollina…
00:09:14 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Episode 309: Boots In The Field Report July 10, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie touches base with Matt Duesterhaus to get more insight in how fields are looking in the areas hit by the derecho that went through and how crops an…
00:27:11 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
Episode 308: Boots In The Field Report June 28, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken talks about how the wildfire haze might be helping us out in this drought, why corn on corn or corn with a rye cover are getting hit harder in dry areas, …
00:16:26 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
Episode 307: Boots In The Field Report June 19, 2023
Grab a cup of coffee or a cold bottle of water, Ken has two weeks to cover in this week’s Boot’s In The Field Report. He walks through frost reports in NE Iowa, drought map getting bigger and uglier,…
00:23:29 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
Episode 306: Boots In The Field Report June 2, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers some of the issues he is seeing in this dry weather including drought stress on crops, herbicide carryover from last June being dry, and lack of ma…
00:05:08 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
Episode 305: Boots In The Field Report May 26, 2023
This week’s Boots In The Field Report covers issues popping up in fields as this crop starts to take off. Ken Ferrie reports on heavy cutworm pressure causing growers to spray, dry conditions causing…
00:13:43 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Episode 304: Boots In The Field Report May 18, 2023
High Ear Counts = High YieldsIn this week's #BIFR, Ken reminds growers that high ear counts are the key to high yields. He also covers planting updates, replant decisions, the ugly corn phase, and in…
00:14:06 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Episode 303: Boots In The Field Report May 10, 2023
Ken Ferrie covers planting progress and emergence in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. Much-needed rain came for most of the Midwest and will help reduce a lot of service calls on all the seed t…
00:09:03 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Episode 302: Boots In The Field Report May 2, 2023
It is finally here! In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie gives the green light locally for planting corn and encourages growers to get this planting season in the books. But he does ca…
00:08:57 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Episode 301: Boots In The Field Report April 26, 2023
In this Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers the calls coming in on the crops planted April 3-10th that took the hardest hit from the freeze. The first step to evaluating replant decisions is …
00:07:51 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Episode 300: Boots In The Field Report April 18, 2023
In this week’s Boots in The Field Report Ken covers planting progress of last week and concerns as we look at the weather ahead. Beans that were planned to be planted early and have been treated for …
00:14:33 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
Episode 298: Boots In The Field Report April 10, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken gives the green light locally to plant fully treated beans for early planting with the understanding that there is always a risk that you may have to repl…
00:05:13 |
Mon 10 Apr 2023
Episode 297: Boots In The Field Report March 31, 2023
This week on the Boots In The Field Report podcast Ken Ferrie advises that now is the time for the pest boss to lay down the first line of defense. He recommends cutworm and armyworm traps going out …
00:08:57 |
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Episode 296: Boots In The Field Report March 15, 2023
The question to ask: “Is the soil dry enough?” In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers why this questions is so important, with 80% of the service calls for compaction that he goes…
00:07:37 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Episode 295: Boots In The Field Report March 10, 2023
In this Boots in The Field Report, Ken Ferrie stresses that harvest starts now. A little planning now can alleviate a lot of pressure and stress come harvest. He suggests picking for yield first and …
00:11:08 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Episode 294: Boots In The Field Report February 24, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie walks through why 2022 was such a nitrogen friendly year for central IL. While reminding growers it didn’t take less N to grow a bushel last year, …
00:08:59 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Episode 293: Boots In The Field Report February 6, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie tackles the question: “If I have organic matters of 3.5% or higher do I need to apply sulfur?” Despite higher organic matter soils having the abili…
00:09:11 |
Mon 06 Feb 2023
Episode 292: Boots In The Field Report January 13, 2023
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers some of the questions that came in during the Virtual College. In particular the topic of Tar Spot and what the difference is in pressure an…
00:09:33 |
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Episode 291: Boots In The Field Report December 22, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers several questions about what kind of efficiencies are gained with banding fertilizer and what he has been seeing as they kick off the yield …
00:11:01 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
Episode 290: Boots In The Field Report December 9, 2022
In this week’s Boots in The Field Report podcast Ken Ferrie takes some time to answer questions that have been coming in: “Switching to corn on corn or beans on beans due to market and yields, what s…
00:12:19 |
Fri 09 Dec 2022
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