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summer<br />
pluckin’<br />
For generations,<br />
<strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong>’s<br />
farm youths have<br />
risen early to walk<br />
miles of rows to<br />
make a few bucks<br />
BY trevis mayfield<br />
eastern iowa farmer<br />
Never mind that it’s<br />
summer vacation.<br />
The alarm goes off in<br />
Korey Schepers’ bedroom<br />
at 6 a.m., and her<br />
feet hit the floor without hesitation.<br />
There’s no sleeping in and no snooze<br />
button during the middle weeks of<br />
July.<br />
That’s the way it’s been for the past<br />
seven years, ever since Korey joined a<br />
local army of kids and young adults<br />
who walk miles through eastern <strong>Iowa</strong><br />
cornfields to ensure that next year’s<br />
seed corn will carry the correct genetic<br />
codes.<br />
These early-bird troops who assemble<br />
at 7 a.m. for roll-call at Cornelius<br />
Seed’s Springbrook headquarters hail<br />
12 <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> | fall <strong>2017</strong>
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