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Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. Detasseling seed corn, remove rogue plants, weeds, and volunteer corn plants from seed production fields in northern Illinois. Detassel Corn - Must be able to walk miles per day while pulling all tassels from plants within the designated female rows, including tassels on tiller/sucker plants. Tassels will be pulled as they emerge and before shedding pollen. Rogueing- Workers will remove all rogues or off-type plants from within and between seed cornrows. Clean-up Detasseling - Workers will be required to cleanup all tassels or part tassels that remain from plants after detasseling machines have covered the designated female rows. Workers may also be required to husk, sort, during harvest. Workers will perform seed corn receiving, silage, sorting, and dryer load out duties as it pertains to harvest seed corn crop and kernels. Workers may also harvest soybeans.