Market Farming

[Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>]

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> also- does anyone know what the point of de-tasseling corn is?  i tried to 
> find some info yesterday and i am still "cornfused".  my niece said when 
> she was in nebraska one summer, all the teenagers there had summer jobs 
> de-tasseling corn.  now i guess a lot of it is done by machine.  we grow 
> lots of field corn and sweet corn here and i had never heard of it.
> thanks, lauren

I'm no corn expert, but.....

It is probably to control pollenation (pollination? my spell checker 
likes neither) for seed production.  Maybe for hybrid varieties.

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