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 289: Boots In The Field Report November 23, 2022
Ken takes a little more time this week to catch up with the Matt Duesterhaus in Quincy, Il to see how their harvest finished up and then speaks with Isaac Ferrie on what they saw on the plot side thi…
00:35:13 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Episode 288: Boots In The Field Report November 16, 2022
In this week’s Boots in The Field Report Ken Ferrie recaps the last of the plots coming out, highlighting a fungicide plot out of this year’s tar spot alley, NE Iowa. He also goes over some of the yi…
00:10:35 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Episode 287: Boots In The Field Report November 4, 2022
In this week’s Boots in The Field Report Ken covers harvest progress throughout the state and reports most areas pleased with corn yields and ended up with average bean yields. Several reports coming…
00:01:29 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Episode 286: Boots In The Field Report October 28, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken recaps harvest progress and reminds growers to be patient and wait for the correct conditions before applying anhydrous. Reports from Iowa are showing yie…
00:07:19 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Episode 285: Boots In The Field Report October 18, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken talks bigger than expected swings in bean yields and attributes that to the maturity of the bean planted and the weather it received. He is getting a lot …
00:09:12 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Episode 284: Boots In The Field Report October 7, 2022
Ken talks about the gift and the curse of the dry fall: easier harvesting without getting equipment stuck/wheel tracks, don’t have to go as deep with fall tillage to get full width shatter, and good …
00:07:11 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Episode 283: Boots In The Field Report September 30, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken gives a harvest report of yields coming in across the state and comments that combine operators are saying the big swings in yield in a field are coming f…
00:10:05 |
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Episode 282: Boots In The Field Report September 23, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers the harvest reports coming in and the highlights from his recent Iowa / Minnesota crop tour. He reports Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota seem t…
00:09:44 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Episode 281: Boots In The Field Report September 8, 2022
Ken Ferrie recaps 2,700 miles of crop touring over the last week on what he saw on the way up to Canada and coming back. He also reports April planted corn locally is hitting black layer and causing…
00:07:22 |
Thu 08 Sep 2022
Episode 280: Boots In The Field Report August 25, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers tip loss, spider mites, northern leaf blight and diseases increasing later in the season in corn fields. He also covers sightings of SDS and white …
00:11:43 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
Episode 279: Boots In The Field Report August 18, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken gives a crop report from his trip to Ohio and back and on conditions he is seeing locally. Due to the late planting and tight water margins a lot of final…
00:10:44 |
Thu 18 Aug 2022
Episode 278: Boots In The Field Report August 8, 2022
Most areas got at least a little rain last week, but some got too much and in some areas it came with heavy winds. While the fields that took heavy wind in June still had growing potential to lessen …
00:09:25 |
Mon 08 Aug 2022
Episode 277: Boots In The Field Report July 25, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie tells how water in the next 60 days will tell the rest of the story, how despite being able to pollinate in 5 days the heat wreaked some havoc on e…
00:04:24 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
Episode 276: Boots In The Field Report July 15, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers how quickly pollination is going, the increasing need to spray for silk clippings, why shorter corn might be a good thing come this fall, where tar…
00:11:03 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Episode 275: Boots In The Field Report July 7, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers how we are progressing compared to normal, what to look for now before the corn tassels, and reminds growers about staying on top of aphids, spider…
00:09:55 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
Episode 274: Boots In The Field Report July 1, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken touches on fields recovering from wind and hail damage, explains why L1 hybrids will take the biggest hit, and reminds growers to never walk away from a g…
00:11:13 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
Episode 273: Boots In The Field Report June 20, 2022
Ken Ferrie starts this week’s Boots In The Field Report with a fishing recap, followed by a crop report of how crops looked on the drive. He talks heat stress and what that means for these rolled up …
00:10:43 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Episode 272: Boots In The Field Report June 2, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers nitrate levels, carbon penalty, cutworm, rootworm, and armyworm flights, and crop deficiencies showing up. He breaks down the difference in nitroge…
00:09:32 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
Episode 271: Boots In The Field Report May 27, 2022
This year may go down in the books as some of the best corn stands Ken has seen, with the corn coming up in 4 days and even emergence. In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers the nitrate …
00:10:16 |
Fri 27 May 2022
Episode 270: Boots In The Field Report May 18, 2022
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie reports the ground that didn’t get hoed but is struggling to get make it out of the ground might have to be hoed twice and that still might not be …
00:09:36 |
Wed 18 May 2022
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