News - September 2023 RSS Feed

One of the most difficult jobs I’ve ever had was detasseling. In central Iowa this is a very common job for high schoolers, basically we would get up early, and pretty much at sunrise we were out in the field, walking rows of corn, pulling the tassels, the very top piece of the corn, we would pull that out of the female stalks of corn so that the male ears would pollinate the corn, basically making the hybrids for the seed corn.