"The state's largest farm organization launched a year-long campaign Thursday against proposed changes to federal safety standards for children working in agriculture.
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FFA members, including state President Brennan Costello of Gothenburg, and advisers including Anita Wollenberg of Wilber-Clatonia, were among those who stepped forward in support of Farm Bureau concerns about limiting the involvement of those younger than 15 in hands-on agriculture.
Wollenberg said the first proposed changes to safety rules for children from the Department of Labor since the 1970s go too far.
Her students learn by doing, she said.
"They are taking that right and that privilege away from them."
Costello said the rule changes threaten the supervised agricultural experience students get through their schools and the summer money they earn on farms operated by somebody other than their parents."
Does anyone remember the paper boy or a lemonade stand where children in
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