A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in detasseling corn on hybrid seed-corn farm. Respnsibilities include:

• Examines ears of corn in field to determine time of emergence of silk and its retention of accompanying pollen from tassels, and schedules work load.
• Assigns block and field code numbers and identifies and marks male and female rows of stalks.
• Examines fields to find areas of rapidly growing tassels and orders crew to remove tassels before emergence of silk from ears of corn.
• Assigns fields to supervisor, detasseling crew.
• Determines frequency of detasseling according to factors, such as temperature, moisture, time of season, and variety of corn grown.
• Inspects fields for undetasseled corn plants, estimates number of plants in field, and computes percent of tassels pulled by making sample counts of plants.
• Registers corn detasseling crew and issues identification badges.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.