corn question

[glenn57]

so I drive this county road to work each day. think its cty road 14/15??????? anyway its past bob and judy's farm market and a couple potatoe farms. along that stretch there is a few corn fields, however one  field of corn it looks like they took some machine and cut the tops off. this whole  area of corn looks like it got a haircut................ flat and even all throughout the field.

I have never seen this before and right next to it the corn is normal.

anyone know why or for what reason they did this???????????

[Boar]

cause they can.

[Lee Borgersen]

Ask Corny 13!  He should know da answer

[glenn57]

cause they can.

:help:it's really hard to soar with eagles when you hang with turkeys!!!

[glenn57]

Ask Corny 13!  He should know da answer

datz why I posted it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[deadeye]

Are all the rows "tasseled"?  They usually do this for seed corn.

[glenn57]

Are all the rows "tasseled"?  They usually do this for seed corn.

I tasseled corn once..............its beyond that, or they changed there method of detasseling??????????? its like they cut the corn stock in half.........completely removing the top half.

I would think its to late to detassel corn for seed. on a side note I first noticed this maybe a month ago!

[Boar]

glenn yur spare tire is to big yu couldnt even get airborne

[glenn57]

glenn yur spare tire is to big yu couldnt even get airborne

don't you gotta go take more selfies!!!

[Rebel SS]

glenn yur spare tire is to big yu couldnt even get airborne

Yes he could, Boar. You've never seen a Blimp?  They're fulla gas. 

[snow1]

Herd there was a UFO sighting in that area,,,Form of crop circles?

[deadeye]

glenn57,
So I was heading back from Monticello today so I decided to hang a right and swing by Bob and Judy's to see the corn cutting circles.  After traveling quite a ways and seeing nothing but bean fields, I began to think glenn57 doesn't know a bean field from a corn field.  Then just as I was about to give up, there is was, rows of corn with the top half cut clean off.  Looked like something out of a space movie.  If you look at it, you can see that every 5th row has been removed.  That was the row left to pollinate the other 4 rows.  The 4 rows were cut to prevent them from growing a tassel.  I believe they remove the pollinator row so as not to mix any seed from there into the hybrid seed in the other 4 rows.


This is picture of how the field looked prior to removing the tasseled rows.

[glenn57]

thanks deadeye!!!!!!!! new I wasn't seeing things. must be a new way of detassling corn?????????????

yea it was a ways down that road! odd though I used to see a fair amount of turkeys and deer on that drive in the morning, not so much anymore.

I need to stop some day and buy me some spuds from one of them tater farms!!!

[snow1]

sounds like the sweet corn is about done for the summer in my area,swung by the local farmers house and picked up a couple doz as he was coming out of the field,last rotation this week.Bummer as with all the rain the sweet corn has been the best.

[HD]

I seen this on the way to the general's house....my wife, and I,  coming from a long blood line of farmers have never seen it before. So, we asked, and yup, it's cut that way for seed production. The energy is not tranfered into the tassle, but to the cob to produce better seed. The general told me that it used to be done manual by school kids to de-tassel corn. I never did it a a kid, and assume now that they have a machine to shave off the tops.

[dew2]

I seen this on the way to the general's house....my wife, and I,  coming from a long blood line of farmers have never seen it before. So, we asked, and yup, it's cut that way for seed production. The energy is not tranfered into the tassle, but to the cob to produce better seed. The general told me that it used to be done manual by school kids to de-tassel corn. I never did it a a kid, and assume now that they have a machine to shave off the tops.

Yep HD 50 cents a hour back in the early to mid 60s for detassling good pay for a 10-14 year old kid.Back then we didnt even notice the heat an humidity!!

[glenn57]

I seen this on the way to the general's house....my wife, and I,  coming from a long blood line of farmers have never seen it before. So, we asked, and yup, it's cut that way for seed production. The energy is not tranfered into the tassle, but to the cob to produce better seed. The general told me that it used to be done manual by school kids to de-tassel corn. I never did it a a kid, and assume now that they have a machine to shave off the tops.

I did that one year for a couple days. it sucked, maybe it was the guys running it..............they were dicks!!!!!!!! maybe why I wanted to be union!!!!!!!!!!

[HD]

I seen this on the way to the general's house....my wife, and I,  coming from a long blood line of farmers have never seen it before. So, we asked, and yup, it's cut that way for seed production. The energy is not tranfered into the tassle, but to the cob to produce better seed. The general told me that it used to be done manual by school kids to de-tassel corn. I never did it a a kid, and assume now that they have a machine to shave off the tops.

I did that one year for a couple days. it sucked, maybe it was the guys running it..............they were dicks!!!!!!!! maybe why I wanted to be union!!!!!!!!!!

If you knew what it was.... then why did you ask? 

[glenn57]

I seen this on the way to the general's house....my wife, and I,  coming from a long blood line of farmers have never seen it before. So, we asked, and yup, it's cut that way for seed production. The energy is not tranfered into the tassle, but to the cob to produce better seed. The general told me that it used to be done manual by school kids to de-tassel corn. I never did it a a kid, and assume now that they have a machine to shave off the tops.

I did that one year for a couple days. it sucked, maybe it was the guys running it..............they were dicks!!!!!!!! maybe why I wanted to be union!!!!!!!!!!

If you knew what it was.... then why did you ask? 

I detasseled like the old days, plucked tassels by hand...................I had absolutely no clue this was the new way of doing it!!!!!!! never seen it before. that's why I asked.............comprendday???????????

[Boar]

 

[glenn57]

what da hell you laughing at pudge???????????????????

[HD]

Some times I'm wonder'in what yur smok'in in that little pipe papa smurf......

[glenn57]

Some times I'm wonder'in what yur smok'in in that little pipe papa smurf......

I got it from boar.............its his fault!!!!!!!! besides.i need to keep ya'all on your toes!!!!!!!! its what union reps do!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dew2]

what da hell you laughing at pudge???????????????????

Pudge?? Remember Pugsley from the ????Munsters or Adams Family?? That should be yer new handle 57. It represents fat cats,Union official's and inhabitants of Coldsprings that are?? UMM Ah twisted mentally. Ask yer neighbor to the north  
OR ME!!
 Oh ya if ya need some weed I aint poisoned our yard for 3 years lots a weed for ya!

[LPS]

When I was a kid, detassling corn was a common summertime money maker.  A couple of buddies and I would work for farmers walking the rows of beans and corn pulling weeds out of the rows.  The first day he was giving us a ride in the back of his pickup to the field and there were his daughters and the neighbor girls who we went to school with (probably about 8th grade) out in the field already picking weeds and they didn't have their shirts on getting a tan.  He slammed on the brakes so we didn't get a close up look and gave the girls a chance to get to the edge of the field where their shirts were.  We were all laughing and banging on the top of the cab yelling Go Go Go.  He didn't Go.....