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Boots In The Field Report April 30, 2021

By |April 30th, 2021|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , |

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken gives a planting progress update and warns pest teams to stay on top of the bean leaf beetle pressure. He also states the rain delay was a welcome break to take care of moisture concerns and to help diversify risk by widening the [...]

Boots In The Field Report September 17, 2019

By |September 17th, 2019|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , , , , |

In this week's Boots In The Field Report, Ken covers tough conditions in Ohio, his prediction on which fields won't make black layer, and warns that the size of the yield hit due to Top Kill will be determined by how close the field is to black layer. He also advises the [...]

Boots In The Field Report For September 7th 2018

By |September 7th, 2018|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , |

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Boots In The Field Report for May 4, 2018

By |May 4th, 2018|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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Boots In The Field Report for April 27th

By |April 27th, 2018|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , , , |

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Boots In The Field Report for October 13th

By |October 13th, 2017|Categories: Boots In The Field, Corn|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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Boots In The Field Report for September 11th 2017

By |September 11th, 2017|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTI3aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZwb2RvbWF0aWMuY29tJTJGZW1iZWQlMkZodG1sNSUyRmVwaXNvZGUlMkY4NTYwMjE5JTNGYXV0b3BsYXklM0R0cnVlJTI3JTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTI3MjA4JTI3JTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjc3MjglMjdmcmFtZWJvcmRlciUzRCUyNzAlMjclMjBtYXJnaW5oZWlnaHQlM0QlMjcwJTI3JTIwbWFyZ2lud2lkdGglM0QlMjcwJTI3JTIwc2Nyb2xsaW5nJTNEJTI3bm8lMjclMjBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4lM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0U=[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yields slipped a little this week. In this week's Boot’s In The Field Report Ken explains what he saw this week that brought on that conclusion. He covers sudden death, ear mold, aspergillus, crown rot, top kill, and uneven turning of fields. Now is the time to make notes of what is happening in the [...]

Boots In The Field Report for August 11th

By |August 14th, 2017|Categories: Boots In The Field, Corn, Pest Managment|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

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Boots In The Field Report September 19th

By |September 16th, 2016|Categories: Boots In The Field|Tags: , , , , , |

Ken gives a harvest update for central IL and explains the barren stalk occurrence he has been seeing. He advises farmers to take note of final ear counts and shoot for only a 6% drop from planted population and to pay attention to stalk quality as it is falling apart rapidly. He also [...]

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