Posted by JDseller on October 23, 2011 at 11:37:15 from (208.126.196.144):
I posted this earlier and it got poofed real quick. We need to let our Congress people know that we oppose these new rules. It would make it illegal for your kids to work on your relatives farms. That includes Grand Parents and siblings. If your farm is in a corporation then the new rules would apply to your own farm, LLCs too. This also effects ALL family businesses even non-agriculture ones.
The new rules say all over the place that family farms are exempt. The trouble is when you read the attachment that lays out what a family farm is then most of the modern farms do not qualify.
IT could even endanger 4-H clubs that have livestock shows. The club could be held liable for any one injured.
I am not just crying wolf here. I had my lawyer read this thing. It is scary the number of ways you can violate these new rules.
My Grand sons wash the equipment and semis on Saturday morning each week in the winter. They would be operating power equipment and it would be illegal as the semis are owned by a private Corporation that is made up of myself and my sons. The ones that do most of the washing are just 13 and 14 years old. I always thought that it was better making them do real work for their spending money. I guess that I will become a criminal if these rules pass.
Some of the rules in a snap shot:
1) No children allowed in direct contact with livestock over a certain weight. It just about excludes all cattle over a few hours old.
2) No one under 18 allowed on a grain elevator property. Do any of you have your kids in your tractor or semi when you haul grain to town???? If these rules pass the grain elevators will have to bar anyone under eighteen from the property.
3) I hire a few neighbor kids to help put in hay. I would be subject to these new rules. One of which is that they can't work more than six feet off the ground. So how high is a flat bed wagon going to be stacked and still be under six foot tall??? Two or three bales high??? How about in the barn. My lofts will not hold very much hay stacked six foot deep.
4) We have to pickup rocks and roots on several of the farms. It is real common for use to put a younger kid on the tractor in low gear at low engine speed to drive alone as we pickup the rocks and roots. These new rules would make it illegal for my grand kids under 14 to drive that tractor on my farm or rented ground.
You can read the rules and interpretations in the attached link.
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