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In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie talks early plot results from fields harvested last week and also walks growers through options on fall tillage for the dry conditions we are facing.

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie advises growers to have a harvest fire plan, and make sure everyone is aware of the plan and their part in the plan. In the dry areas he also recommends not just doing the stalk push test but also to check shank [...]

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 [...]

Areas of Potential Harvest Loss: Pre Harvest Loss: before combine gets there (ears laying on ground, soybeans out of shell) To figure out: Walk ahead of where you will combine to see what is already on ground. (For soybeans make sure not on ground blown out from the last pass next to [...]

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 [...]

In this week’s #BIFR Ken gives a crop report both locally and on the road from OH, IA, and IN and recaps what he sees as the biggest risk to each area in finishing out their growing season.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers planting progress, replant reports, stand evaluations, sidedressing information and predictions of the ugly corn phase. He also gives his perspective on the wind and water erosion we have seen this spring.