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area supervisor

A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in detasseling corn on hybrid seed-corn farm. Respnsibilities include:

  • Examines ears of corn in field to determine time of emergence of silk and its retention of accompanying pollen from tassels, and schedules work load.
  • Assigns block and field code numbers and identifies and marks male and female rows of stalks.
  • Examines fields to find areas of rapidly growing tassels and orders crew to remove tassels before emergence of silk from ears of corn.
  • Assigns fields to supervisor, detasseling crew.
  • Determines frequency of detasseling according to factors, such as temperature, moisture, time of season, and variety of corn grown.
  • Inspects fields for undetasseled corn plants, estimates number of plants in field, and computes percent of tassels pulled by making sample counts of plants.
  • Registers corn detasseling crew and issues identification badges.
  • Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
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