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FARM & RANCH
THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
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Brian added.
Each worker must bring a water jug, rain- coat — many wear black garbage bags as morning protection corn that’s wet from dew or recent pivot ir- rigation — a cooler with food and old ten- nis shoes. Many also bring sunscreen and bug spray. “Sometimes the piv- ots are on when we get there and we have to wait to start until they are turned off,” Hallie said, explaining that mid- and late-Ju- ly mornings can be cold for kids walking through wet fields. “They do have to wear long pants, yoga pants or something like that,” Brian said. “...
Lori Potter / Kearney Hub The job of detasseling workers doesn’t change much from year to year, but required COVID-19 safety measures such as wearing face masks make the 2020 detasseling season unique.
No skin can touch the corn leaves anymore.” That was an added pro- tection rule initiated in 2019. As for recommend- ing old tennis shoes as comfortable footwear, he said, “We tell them you’re gonna walk 10 to 15 miles a day.”
Those miles are walked mostly down the same rows year af- ter year. “It’s the same farms, the same fields. We get to make friends with their (farm families’) pets. We have a few fa- vorite dogs,” Hallie joked.
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