Boots In The Field Report

Mar 03 2025 353 ep. 10 mins 213
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One of the founding pillars of Crop-Tech Consulting is integrating a systems approach to farming. Crop-Tech is continually adding to their expertise and services. To aid in this process, CTC conducts over 150 test plots every year and works in conjunction with Farm Journal to gather research data on the industry’s equipment, practices, and technology. The Boots in the Field Report features Crop-Tech Consulting agronomist Ken Ferrie. He will keep you up-to-date by describing what he is seeing while in the field. 

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Episode 353: Boots In The Field Report March 3, 2025

Mar 03 2025 9 mins  
While we don’t plan for a drought, we can make sure we are picking the right hybrid for the ground and our management style that will mitigate risks like a drought. Matching defensive ground with a defensive hybrid and offensive ground with offensive hybrids can be the best advantage to getting every bushel from an acre while also minimizing risk. Ken Ferrie covers this and more

Episode 352: Boots In The Field Report February 7, 2025

Feb 07 2025 7 mins  
In this weeks episode Ken Ferrie gives an update on where we stand with 45Z

Episode 351: Boots In The Field Report January 21, 2025

Jan 21 2025 6 mins  
This winter growers are asking about what to do when they notice they have stand issues and Ken Ferrie gives some tips for how to hunt down the root of the problem in this week’s Boots In The Field Report. Yield maps can tell us where a problem is and how much that problem is costing in yield, but it can’t tell us what the problem is.  It can guide us where to look but not

Episode 350: Boots In The Field Report January 3, 2025

Jan 03 2025 6 mins  
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report, Ken Ferrie answers a grower’s question about if you can create enough efficiency in banding fertilizer in beans to be able to reduce the amount of product applied. There are several factors that play into what the correct answer to that question is which are specific to a farming operation. Ken walks though things to consider to help gr

Episode 349: Boots In The Field Report December 23, 2024

Dec 23 2024 8 mins  
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken answers a question that came in from a Beyond the Basics series viewer concerning what to consider when laying out a 4R nutrient plan that involves manure.

Episode 348: Boots In The Field Report December 12, 2024

Dec 12 2024 10 mins  
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers some things to consider when evaluating how many acres to allot for new hybrids that are winning yield contests. He also has an interview discussing farming in Utah from a recent meeting he did out West.

Episode 347: Boots In The Field Report November 22, 2024

Nov 22 2024 6 mins  
In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie walks through considerations for fall tillage and if the window closes, plan Bs for getting ready next spring. He explains the different considerations for growers this fall depending on if they are in a horizontal tillage system or a vertical tillage system and also covers the question of liming ground that is on an unsecured l

Episode 346: Boots In The Field Report November 1, 2024

Nov 01 2024 6 mins  
A 4R nitrogen plan starts now. In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie reminds growers that if they are applying anhydrous this fall that they need to do it in conditions that will allow it to seal and conserve the nitrogen being applied, not letting it gas off.

Episode 345: Boots In The Field Report October 28, 2024

Oct 28 2024 9 mins  
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.

Episode 344: Boots In The Field Report October 11, 2024

Oct 11 2024 5 mins  
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 strength to make sure there aren’t fields hiding that Need to move up the priority list. Ken also reminds growers to