Seven Units Detasseling Corn in Central Illinois

Detasseling Corn in Central Illinois
Last field of Klein Farms that needed detasseling which allowed them to have all 7 of the units in the same field for this video.
The following on Detasseling is from Wikipedia:
Detasseling corn is removing the immature pollen-producing bodies, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control,[1] employed to cross-breed, or hybridize, two varieties of corn.
Fields of corn that will be detasseled are planted with two varieties of corn. Every corn plant has both male and female parts,[2] so if both varieties of corn were left intact, some of the resulting seeds would have non-hybrid parents. Removing the tassels from all the plants of one variety leaves the grain that is growing on those plants to be fertilized by the tassels of the other, resulting in a hybrid.
Nearly all detasseling is done in two steps; the field is first detasseled by machine and then detasseled manually. Machine detasseling itself is typically a two step process. Initially a detasseling machine called a "cutter" goes through the rows of corn to be detasseled and cuts off the top portion of the plant. This is done to make the field more uniform so that a "puller" machine can then come through the corn field when the tassels have started to emerge past the cut leaves and pull the tassel out of the plant. It typically takes 24 to 48 hours to have the tips of the tassels emerge enough to get a good pull without grabbing the leaves of the plant after the initial cut. The pullers work by catching the top of the tassel between two rollers moving at a high speed. This removes the majority of the tassels.
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[@cactusboez6002]

So these are the machines that manage to miss half the tassels so I have pick them all

[@DeLandbouwSpotter]

Interesting to see.

[@JimBaltz]

Thanks!

[@davimarques101]

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[@tomaszktos8305]

Witam.w jakim celu to się robi? Pozdrawiam z Poland

[@ahmedelhosary6062]

I ask for the machine information and price. Thanks

[@robwar2288]

Yeah ok I can see my guys getting that right 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. So if seed corn production is Measured in Bushels I’m guessing it doesn’t produce 150 bu? Is that right?

[@tatemkennedy3958]

Why do some rows not get detasseled

[@Woldog12]

Those are the male rows.

[@JimBaltz]

There is two varieties of corn plants, one is is detasseled and the other variety is left to fertilize the the first one will later be destroyed as it will not be a hybrid.