Detasseling is a rite of passage for a certain segment of Midwesterners; a baptism by corn. You grab the top of the corn plant, where pollen is produced—the tassel—and pluck it from the rest of the ...

GENESEO, Ill. — David Powell spent the last 13 July's walking through corn fields. He's one of about 18 people detasseling corn at a Geneseo research field for Wyffels Hybrids. His average of about 17 ...

According to Rader Detasseling, the top or the tassel of the corn plant is pulled by the detasseler so the plant cannot pollinate itself. The tassel is the male part of the corn plant. The ear shoot ...

NORTH PLATTE — Across Nebraska, corn tassels wave in the breeze as the crop moves toward pollination and on into harvest. Managing that pollination specifically for seed or field corn determines the ...

Across Nebraska, corn tassels wave in the breeze as corn moves toward pollination and on into harvest. Managing that pollination specifically for seed or field corn determines the quality for the ...

For decades, corn detasseling was a customary summer job for teenagers in Nebraska and the rest of the Corn Belt. In recent years, however, agriculture companies are relying more on migrant labor to ...

It has become a summer rite of passage and a good way to make some extra spending money for young people in corn country. For two or three weeks every summer, hundreds of kids — generally middle ...

“Historically, detasseling was all done by hand,” Lloyd said. “Certainly in Nebraska where a lot of seed is produced in that Doniphan, York area, I’ve heard stories of multi-generational detasselers.” ...