Stories

Each season, NATS partners with a local non-profit organization and donates $1 for every acre that our detasseling crew covers. For years, we have been sponsoring students in Kenya through a local non-profit called Hope Venture. In June 2023, I (Dawn Buell) had the...

“I had to give up the idea of building a small school for the children in the Bangalore, India slum quarry. It was very hard for me to do that. You can only imagine my utter astonishment about how God provided for that need.” - Dawn Buell When 2011 came, Cynci asked...

“How can we make a seasonal business impact our community and world for good long after the summer is over?” This question has been at the heart of the NATS projects. At NATS, we want to impact our community and world for God. Each year NATS donates $1 per acre to a...

“If you have an extra ten bucks and want to change someone’s life, this would be an excellent way to do it.” In 2012, Cynci was about to launch a backpack project. A $10 backpack full of school supplies would be the key for kids to attend school in India. Dawn...

“I was sitting in this room full of attorneys who were picking apart my résumé during the interview. The one thing they all kept coming back to was ‘You detasseled for NINE years?’” Sarah (Hoefler) Kniep grew up in the small town of Firth, Nebraska, with three...

“I started detasseling because I wanted to save enough money to buy a horse.” Standing fifteen hands tall, this chocolate-brown beauty has a very special owner. Not very many teenagers can say that they purchased a horse using their own money. But Abigail Fox can....

Little did Liz Feuerborn realize back in 2008 that when she gave permission to her daughter, Nancy, to start her first job, she was starting a family tradition. At the time, Nancy was 14. One of her friends had told her about detasseling, and she decided that she...

The big wheels of the yellow bus spun around and chunks of mud flew all around as seasoned NATS bus driver, Nina, pressed on the gas to try to free her bus from its muddy trap. Without any luck, the bus remained stuck a quarter mile from where her sweaty troop of...

When Justice Wyatt began his first day detasseling on that temperate Nebraska morning, he had one goal in mind: to finally buy the 3,803-piece Lego Star Wars Death Star he’d dreamed about since he was five years old. The price of the Death Star was steep, and even...