I use GFCI's liberally.
Posted on 07/26/2011 10:16:52 AM PDT by stillafreemind
Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall died of their, and two others (names not disclosed) were seriously injured. Six other workers treated for injuries deemed not life threatening, were part of a 72 member group working to detassel corn for Monsanto Corp out of St. Louis. Garza and Kendall were both from Sterling, Ill.
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I’ve seen kids get killed by lightning while in the field, but this seems strange for them to be electrocuted.
Defective or incorrectly maintained equipment.
How horrible.
I saw one young man on tv being interviewed. I felt so bad for him, he said he heard the girls, ran up towards them, saw them and couldn’t help them because he and the others were afraid of being electrocuted too. Just a sad situation. I don’t know why they just don’t turn them off before the crews go in.
They "died of their" ... DIED OF THEIR WHAT ?!?!
Then the lead is buried in the fourth paragraph.
I can't quite figure this out: Male and female corn rows are planted, and the tassels of the male corn are removed by hand.
All the corn I've planted has had both (male) tassels and (female) silk. There haven't been separate male and female plants like some other species have. But then I've only done backyard gardening and not farming.
Wow, maybe you can find an article on it by searching. I didn’t and don’t critique, just read the article and felt for the families.
They turn them IN to Male/Female by removing the tassels from some before they bloom.
Seems preventable. I read in the article that this has happened more than once. I think it said that farmers used to use diesel but have switched them to electric.
I read this 3 times and I can’t see exactly how they got hurt. Something to do with the irrigation machine?
Working for Monsanto Corp was all I needed to read.........those people are evil.
Prayers for the families of these girls and the others injured.
Plus the headline says they were injured but in fact they were killed.
Um, it says 2 killed 8 injured if I’m reading it right.
Sad story and totally preventable.
My brothers used to do this a long time ago for a farmer nearby. My city raised aunt seemed to think that it was the thing to do to corn, so she went out and snipped all of the tassels off of the sweet corn. When someone asked how her corn was going to get pollinated, she went back out and tried to tape them back on the plants. It didn’t work.
Smart kids, very possible for anyone trying to help to also die.
We had a big city 60+ year old neighbor. One day, she bought a whole chicken for a recipe that required the chicken to be cut into pieces. She asked my grandfather how to do that and he just told her to draw and quarter it. She took him literally and came back later with a drawing of the bird and asked him what to do next. Being the gentleman he was, he placed the drawing beside the bird and proceeded to cut the thing up for her.
They plant two types of corn in alternating rows. They then remove the tassel (male) organ from one of the rows, ensuring cross pollenation on the female silks of the other rows. Only every other row is then useful as seed, as the other row self-polenates. I'm not sure how they ensure seperation later.
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