Boots In The Field

Boots In The Field Report September 27, 2024

By |September 27th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie says yield information is coming in slow, but yield reports are strong. How yields are affected by this late season drought depends on soil type, compaction present, and health of crop coming into the drought. Ken encourages scouts to start doing push [...]

Boots In The Field Report August 30, 2024

By |August 30th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

Ken gives a crop condition recap and a pest scout report from farm visits. The dry weather has some big ears wanting to tip down early and nitrogen deficiencies are showing up strong in fields that didn’t have the nitrogen plan adjusted for early season loss. Ken covers this and more in [...]

Boots In The Field Report August 5, 2024

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

Ken Ferrie covers crop conditions from his farm visits in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. He reports cases of SDS, white mold, red crown rot, aphids, and tar spot. He mentions that this is the heaviest corn aphid year he has seen and encourages growers to do accurate ear counts [...]

Boots In The Field Report July 8, 2024

By |July 8th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

During the roundtrip from Heyworth, Illinois to Northeast Iowa and back, the area affected by heavy rains was larger than Ken was expecting to see. In this week’s Boots In The Field Report he gives a recap of the field conditions along the route, covers tar spot considerations and reminds the pest [...]

Boots In The Field Report June 17, 2024

By |June 18th, 2024|Categories: Boots In The Field|

Ken talks hail replant, no-tilling beans after wheat to conserve moisture, ugly corn phase and carbon penalty locking up some beans, need for doing stand evaluations now to document cause of uneven stands, rootless corn, nitrate loss, and water hemp out of control on this week’s Boots In The Field Report. [...]

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