Take advantage of the drier weather in June's fourth week to
detassel corn, to bring in the winter wheat, to complete the first cut of alfalfa and to start the second cut.
to catch a school bus to the farms outside of town, where he'd weed rows of soybeans and
detassel corn--a Plains rite of adolescence that aids pollination.
That increase revolutionized farming, but it also meant a lot of work for the hybrid companies; someone had to
detassel acres and acres of corn in the process of growing a new breed of plant.
Moreover, the window of opportunity to
detassel the plant is only three days.
Other alternatives for the complete control of pollen dissemination may be through isolation in time or using the transgenic plants only as female that are
detassel before anthesis (Garcia et al., 1998) in the routine breeding programs.
Still employs over 650 school-aged youth to
detassel.
Harvest,
detassel corn, cut hay, pull weeds and do midsummer pruning in the moon's third or fourth quarter.
WLA members raised vegetables,
detasseled corn, shocked wheat, picked cotton, and harvested fruits and nuts.
"They seem
detasseled about my case going up on appeal."
In each isolation block, one population was used as the male and the other seven populations were
detasseled and used as females.