Rader Detasseling contracts through Pioneer and Syngenta Seeds to work fields in the Grand Island, Hastings, Aurora and Trumbull areas. Prior to the kids going into the fields, detasseling machines ...

DAVID CITY — As three busloads of bleary-eyed teenagers unloaded into a cornfield west of David City, Buresh Detasseling office manager and weekend cheerleader Steph Canning got them moving. “You ...

COLUMBUS — Thirteen-year-old Lance Borer doesn’t mind spending part of his summer sacrificing sleep, rising well before many adults and completing an entire work day before some of his peers even get ...

MONTICELLO — Corn detasseling may be considered hard labor, but for about 85 teenagers, it’s their only summer job and they are glad to have it. There is something particularly unique this summer ...

DEWEY, Ill. (AP) -- For migrant workers and teens on summer break, mid-July in central Illinois means one thing: corn detasseling. For a few weeks every summer, crews of workers trudge through wet and ...

WATERLOO -- Detasseling is hard work. Finding enough labor -- namely teenagers -- is becoming harder as well. Local detasseling contractors are realizing it's no longer enough just to offer a decent ...

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.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Nebraska lawmakers moved one step closer Tuesday to clarifying that seed corn producers in Nebraska should hire local youths for detasseling before using temporary, nonimmigrant ...

I believe in agriculture. Agriculture impacts us every day: We have food on our table because of agriculture, we have ethanol to run our cars because of agriculture, ink for our printers, feed for our ...

Early spring rains and cooler summer temperatures caused more school/work scheduling conflicts for Lincoln’s corn warriors this year. A couple of years ago, detasseling companies got caught up in the ...

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 ...