Learn more about our company and detasseling as a whole. Details about salary and necessary supplies. An application for this year's detasseling season is also available. Frequently updated information about the detasseling season. Have a question or a comment? Click here to let us know your thoughts via e-mail! If you prefer regular mail, we can be reached at the following address: Rader Detasseling 271 Road 324 Trumbull, NE 68980-9709

Rader Detasseling is a family owned and operated company. The upcoming season will mark our 27th year of hiring workers to detassel, rogue, supervise or drive buses. We contract through Pioneer and Syngenta Seeds to work fields in the Grand Island, Hastings, Aurora and Trumbull areas. If you're a dedicated, responsible person looking for a fun, team-oriented atmosphere in which to work, Rader Detasseling is the company for you! Detasseling is the removing of the top or the tassel of the corn plant. It is done so that the plant cannot polinate itself. The tassel is the male part of the corn plant. The ear shoot with silk is the female part and is located on the lower section of the plant. The pollen from the tassel falls onto the silk, and the corn plant is pollinated. These detasseled varieties are interplanted within rows of another variety that is not detasseled in order to produce cross-pollination. This creates hybrid seed corn. Detasseling machines will remove approximately 70% of the tassels. To remove the rest, people are needed to walk or ride down the row of corn and pull the remaining tassels. The goal is to remove 99.7% of the tassels. Timing is very important. If a field is pulled too early, it decreases the yield. If it is done too late, the corn will polinate itself, ruining the seed. This site was designed by MIDWEST CREATIONS Hastings, Nebr.