Evaluating Late Spring Field Readiness!
Are You Ready? Ken Ferrie walks through how to tell if a field is ready to plant and how to move forward, aware of the consequences, when you have to push marginal conditions.
Crop-Tech Consults: The Importance of Choosing the Right Closing Wheel
Isaac illustrates the potential downfalls of choosing the wrong closing wheel for your condition.
Poly Vs Ortho Phosphates
Isaac discusses the differences between poly-phosphate and orthophosphate when choosing your starter blend.
Crop-Tech Consults: Importance of Interpreting Yield By Soil Type
Analyzing field size trials by like soil types and management zones makes the data more accurate and robust as well as more applicable to farmers in other areas.
Boots In the Field Report September 18th
Ken gives a yield report as people call in yield averages, indicating the crop is bigger than he expected. Ken also covers things to think about when making your harvest plan and what to do about the weed escapes this fall.
Boots In The Field Report July 22nd
This week’s Boots In The Field Report is packed with information on timely topics for the 2015 crop in Central Illinois. Some of the hot topics Ken covers includes: the current pollination state, pollination issues with insects and hybrids, corn disease showing in area fields, white mold issues, a sudden death update, a [...]
Boots In The Field Report June 2nd
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text] In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken mentions to keep an eye out for the twisted corn whorl and sulfur deficiency. Ken also touches on some of the issues he found with replanted fields.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
The Importance of Early Season Stand Evaluations
In this clip Ken discusses the importance of early season stand evaluations, early season is the only time that we can investigate whether missing plants were actually missing seeds or a result of hindered germination or emergence. We can also predict the projected ear count by evaluating how evenly our stand emerged.
Technology Tuesday: Rock Test
In this week's Technology Tuesday, Brad goes over how to complete the rock test.
Meet the New Crop of Interns
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Matthew Duesterhaus [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5159" border_color="grey" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Matt is from Mendon, IL and is attending Iowa State University where he is majoring in agronomy. He wants to eventually become an agronomist and a partner on his family farm.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text]Joe Lehnert [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="5158" border_color="grey" img_link_target="_self"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Joe is from the Tremont Illinois area and is [...]