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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 [...]

Boots In The Field Report September 28, 2023

By |September 28th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

Join us for this week’s episode of Boots in The Field Report with Ken Ferrie, where he provides a plot and harvest update that's both informative and timely. Ken dives into the ongoing issue of lime shortages that some growers are grappling with. Furthermore, Ken underscores the importance of keeping a close [...]

Boots In The Field Report September 21, 2023

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

In this week’s Boots In The Field report Ken covers why it is more important than usual this year to calibrate the yield monitor to make sure growers are capturing spatially accurate yield maps. These dry years can give clues to where perched water tables and sand lenses are located out in [...]

Boots In The Field Report September 1, 2023

By |September 1st, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers reasons for seeing so much top die back in the corn. 1. Disease issues like anthracnose top kill will be on sporadic plants in the field, show black spores on outside of stalk on full dead plants, and behind the leaf [...]

Boots In The Field Report August 3, 2023

By |August 3rd, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

Ken uses this #BIFR to catch up on pest reports, update tar spot locations, cyst pressure coming around traits, how last week’s heat affected this crop and why you don’t want to group up your pollination window. He reminds growers to check planting dates when reviewing yield plots this year to create fair comparisons. [...]

Boots In The Field Report July 10, 2023

By |July 10th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie touches base with Matt Duesterhaus to get more insight in how fields are looking in the areas hit by the derecho that went through and how crops and growers are fairing in the week since. Ken also covers what the short corn [...]

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