Boots In The Field

Boots In The Field Report February 23, 2023

By |February 23rd, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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 are going to corn in case of a winter kill, he would still top-dress it, but if going [...]

Boots In The Field Report February 13, 2024

By |February 13th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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 University of Tennessee State Specialist Ryan Blair on how the growing season went last year and [...]

Boots In The Field Report January 25, 2024

By |January 25th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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 allelopathic toxins in the cereal rye ahead of corn that caused such a yield ding?, Will there [...]

Boots In The Field Report January 5, 2024

By |January 5th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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 the best place to reduce nitrogen in the overall nitrogen program when using red clover, and does it [...]

Boots In The Field Report December 21, 2023

By |December 21st, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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 what water they have from getting away. He also answers the question from a Beyond the [...]

Boots In The Field Report December 4, 2023

By |December 6th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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 lowest kernels per bushel. Ken also answers a question from a Beyond The Basics viewer about how soil test values [...]

Boots In The Field Report October 13, 2023

By |October 13th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

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: planting dates, varieties, maturities, row spacing, rainfall timing, rainfall amount, tillage, use of covers and [...]

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