(AP/GrantTribune.com) -- The AP reports that many teens won't be allowed to do to perform basic farm or ranch chores "if the U.S. Labor Department approves new rules on children working in agriculture." The story notes that "the proposed rules would prohibit most children under age 16 from driving tractors, using power equipment, working with livestock in certain circumstances and doing work at heights over 6 feet." Many farmers told the AP that Washington bureaucrats cannot possibly understand the agricultural work or the lifestyle that it promotes, and "major agriculture groups have organized to oppose the proposed rules."
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