cornhuskers
Ear-peeling farm workers
Cornhuskers are people who remove the husks from ears of corn, or machines designed for that task.
Before mechanization, cornhusking was labor-intensive work often done communally at harvest time.
The term evokes rural American life and agricultural tradition: The cornhuskers worked through the night to finish before the frost.
Hybrid seed pollination control
- silkingCorn's thread emergence
- harvestGathering mature crops
- stalksFollows obsessively or secretly
- earsAuditory organs, paired
cobs · kernels · bushels · combine · yield · crop · grain · autumn
Cultivating land for food
- croplandLand for growing produce
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- cultivationFostering growth through care
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
planting · fertilizing · crop rotation · acreage · tractor · soil · agronomy · husbandry
detasseling
Hybrid seed pollination control
ears · cobs · kernels · bushels · combine · yield · crop · grain · autumn · farmhands
farming
Cultivating land for food
- croplandLand for growing produce
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- cultivationFostering growth through care
irrigation · planting · fertilizing · crop rotation · acreage · tractor · soil · agronomy · husbandry · farmstead
cornhuskerscorn farmers
Agricultural producers of maize
seeders · planters · sowers · cultivators · harvesters