Posted by INCase on August 30, 2010 at 05:19:18 from (63.85.35.9):
In Reply to: Re: detassling corn??? posted by George Marsh on August 30, 2010 at 04:04:00:
We have alot of seed corn here. Pioneer and DeKalb, plus a bunch of small operations.
I've see a few start to pick here too. They are usually early to get at it anyway but this year is really early. Last year I think they were still detasseling in August.
Daughter detasseled for Pioneer this year. She (surprisingly) didn't complain about the work but did complain about the goobbers and goof-offs she had to work with.
Dave, Look up detasseling on You-tube. Quite a few videos on there both the machine and hand pulling. They usually go thru with a machine to get the majority of the tassels and then go thru by hand to get the ones the machine missed (30%). They shoot for 99%.
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