blog number one

I believe corn detasseling machines should no longer be made, bought, distributed, or even used in any way because they are a waist of money and make human work more difficult. They can't successfully pick all the tassels and people have to go in after them. The makers of these useless machines are happily making money while the machines themselves harden the work of detasseling crews. The machine is least productive on its own and the combined power of machine and human would still be worse then a team of just humans. No science has been put into this. It is just well thought out by someone who has had experience detasseling in a cornfield.

Reasons for my belief consist of the fact that detasselers are sent out to make up for the inaccuracy of the machines. They have to walk through multiple rows of corn looking for the tassels the machine missed and remove them themselves. The searching for tassels is difficult both mentally and physically. It is difficult physically because the eyes can get strained and begin to hurt. It is difficult mentally because someone who cares about their work can get stressed when they keep worrying about whether or not they missed a tassel. If the machine were not used in the crop the detasseler would be aware that each stalk of corn had a tassel in it and could therefore not bother searching for tassels or worrying about missing them.

It is, of course, debatable whether the machine really does prove to harden the work of the people or how less productive it may be. Some may argue that the physical labor of lifting the arms more often would prove to be more work however, workers like myself tend to keep their arms poised for action even though there may not be any noticeable tassels for a while. Others may say that the supposed extra work of lifting the arms may increase the workers desire to walk through the field while purposely skipping many tassels. Honestly though, the knowledge of leaving behind a large amount of tassels should dissuade people from running ahead in a non-machined field compared to the "oh there may be a few left behind but its ok" thought process of many when going though a machined field. So, in the long run detasseling machine bad, human workers good.