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Area farmers, ranchers relieved as farm labor issue subsides

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 9:23pm

WEST WARREN -- Clint Wade doesn't know what he'd do without his sons, Tanner, 16, Jace, 14, and Rhett, 11, helping out on his farm.

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Proposed rules threaten age-old role for kids on family farms

Molly A.K. Connors Concord Monitor

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 4:31pm

WESTMORELAND, N.H. -- Olivia and Victoria Briggs help on their family's New Hampshire dairy farm a few days a week during the school year and more in the summer. The sisters, 12 and 8 years old, milk cows, help repair fences and sometimes ride in tractors.

"It's like a fair," said Olivia, a sixth-grader. "Except every one of (the animals) is yours."

But if parents Dana and Tiffany Briggs eventually incorporate Bo-Riggs Cattle Co. to protect the farm from liability, as countless other farming families have done, proposed U.S. Department of Labor regulations might prevent the girls from continuing much of their work here and on their grandparents' farm. It's work others have done for generations.

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A young ranch hand chases a herd of wild horses near Ganado, Ariz. during a wild horse roundup August 19, 2011. Problems with abandoned horses roaming on ranch land caused chapter officials to round the animals up and hold them until they could be claimed by their owners. (AP Photo/Gallup Independent, Brian Leddy)

Farmers and ranchers oppose stricter child-labor rules

Jerry Daniel Reed Abilene Reporter-News

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:00am

Richard Thorpe worries the pathway he took to the rural ranching life he enjoys today may be blocked for kids who grow up in town.

Thorpe, owner of the Mesa TY Ranch east of Winters, Texas, strongly opposes a proposed U.S. Labor Department rule that would bar young teenagers from working on farms and ranches where they're not related to the owner-operator.

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