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Boots In The Field Report June 19, 2023

By |June 19th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

Grab a cup of coffee or a cold bottle of water, Ken has two weeks to cover in this week’s Boot’s In The Field Report. He walks through frost reports in NE Iowa, drought map getting bigger and uglier, and corn hitting the rapid growth stage amid water concerns. In these challenging [...]

Boots In The Field Report June 2, 2023

By |June 2nd, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken covers some of the issues he is seeing in this dry weather including drought stress on crops, herbicide carryover from last June being dry, and lack of mass flow for potassium uptake. He continues to get reports of leaning corn issues due to [...]

Boots In The Field Report May 26, 2023

By |May 26th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

This week’s Boots In The Field Report covers issues popping up in fields as this crop starts to take off. Ken Ferrie reports on heavy cutworm pressure causing growers to spray, dry conditions causing herbicide carryover and a number of conditions causing good but not great ratings for corn stands. Ken also [...]

Boots In The Field Report May 18, 2023

By |May 18th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

High Ear Counts = High Yields In this week's #BIFR, Ken reminds growers that high ear counts are the key to high yields. He also covers planting updates, replant decisions, the ugly corn phase, and insect activity. Cutworm feeding has started, so pest teams be on the lookout! Cutworm feeding has started, [...]

Boots In The Field Report May 10, 2023

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

Ken Ferrie covers planting progress and emergence in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. Much-needed rain came for most of the Midwest and will help reduce a lot of service calls on all the seed that was sitting in dry soil. Bean stands are looking good and indicating a lot will [...]

Boots In The Field Report May 2, 2023

By |May 2nd, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

It is finally here! In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie gives the green light locally for planting corn and encourages growers to get this planting season in the books. But he does caution growers to make sure they are planting into moisture. He gives the following advice if still [...]

Boots In The Field Report April 26, 2023

By |April 26th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

In this Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers the calls coming in on the crops planted April 3-10th that took the hardest hit from the freeze. The first step to evaluating replant decisions is to have accurate counts for what plants survived. For beans checking that the stem [...]

Boots In The Field Report April 18, 2023

By |April 18th, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

n this week’s Boots in The Field Report Ken covers planting progress of last week and concerns as we look at the weather ahead. Beans that were planned to be planted early and have been treated for SGS, can be planted understanding that they will be in the ground for awhile before [...]

Boots In The Field Report March 31, 2023

By |March 31st, 2023|Categories: Boots In The Field|

This week on the Boots In The Field Report podcast Ken Ferrie advises that now is the time for the pest boss to lay down the first line of defense. He recommends cutworm and armyworm traps going out wherever you have green cover, setting up wireworm and grub bait stations, and putting [...]

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