Seed Corn Production Manager

Seed-corn production combines agronomic discipline with industrial-production logistics — managing the production fields (often hundreds or thousands of contracted acres), coordinating the detasseling work that hybrid-corn production requires (massive seasonal labor crews, mechanical detasselers, the quality-control work detasseling requires), supporting harvest operations specific to seed corn (gentler handling than commercial corn), and the cross-functional work with company breeders, sales, and downstream processing. Production outcomes, hybrid-purity quality, and operational efficiency are the operating measures.

What makes seed-corn production distinct is the labor-intensity of the detasseling season — during the brief detasseling window (typically July), production fields require substantial coordinated labor (crews of hundreds, often including significant youth-labor traditions in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and the broader Corn Belt). The manager coordinates labor, equipment, and field-operations work at high intensity during this window.

This role fits people who are agronomically grounded, comfortable with large-scale field operations, and capable of coordinating substantial seasonal labor. Agronomy or seed-industry credentials, AAS or BS in agronomy, and ongoing CE anchor advancement. The trade-off is the detasseling-season intensity that compresses major operational work into weeks and the labor-management complexity that seed-corn production routinely involves.