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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Anyone in Phoenix?/de-tasseling
  • Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:45:45 -0500

>
> 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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