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Episode 360: Boots In The Field Report May 16, 2025

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In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers why timeliness is important when it comes to making replant decisions and how accurate stand counts and ear counts are crucial in making the right call. For beans, the count is more for weed control concerns in most fields, but for corn a grower needs to look not only at emergence but uniform emergence to get an accurate ear count. If it is 1 collar behind it counts as a half ear and if more than 2 collars behind doesn’t get counted in your ear count at all. It can be helpful to determine now what lead to the subpar emergence to make adjustment notes for next season. He also warns that he has seen cutting in central IL and reminders pest scouts to be on the lookout for cutworm.

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In this week’s Boots In The Field Report Ken Ferrie covers why timeliness is important when it comes to making replant decisions and how accurate stand counts and ear counts are crucial in making the right call. For beans, the count is more for weed control concerns in most fields, but for corn a grower needs to look not only at emergence but uniform emergence to get an accurate ear count. If it is 1 collar behind it counts as a half ear and if more than 2 collars behind doesn’t get counted in your ear count at all. It can be helpful to determine now what lead to the subpar emergence to make adjustment notes for next season. He also warns that he has seen cutting in central IL and reminders pest scouts to be on the lookout for cutworm.

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