Prior to the kids going into the fields, detasseling machines remove approximately 70 percent of the tassels. The kids clean up what the machines were unable to get. In detasseling, timing is ...

Two of our three daughters, and my wife as a high schooler, engaged in the infamous corn country summer employment that thousands of teenagers have participated here in the Midwest: Detasseling.

URSA, Ill. (AP) — Larry Lewis has seen changes in how hybrid seeds are developed since he planted his first 5-acre seed corn in 1960. Detasseling machines now remove about three-fourths of the tassels ...