Outfield Detassling celebrates 25 years

Over 200 youth comb through fields, against weather

  • Outfields Detasseling has reached its 25th year of service detasseling fields in northern Hamilton and Merrick counties, with apprixiomately 250 detasselers working for the company. Directing detasslers where to go next is Derek Keasling.
    Outfields Detasseling has reached its 25th year of service detasseling fields in northern Hamilton and Merrick counties, with apprixiomately 250 detasselers working for the company. Directing detasslers where to go next is Derek Keasling.

    Entering its 25th year of operations, Outfield Detasseling and its crew have been working through the summer heat in Hamilton and Merrick counties.The company was created by Steve Koepke, who previously worked with Aurora crews in the late 1980s and later worked with a company called Oettings Detasseling in Seward into the 1990s.“We were in seven states and we had over 6,000 workers across the who…