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Parents defend putting children to work on farms
Posted: 07.10.2012 at 9:15 AM
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10-year-old Jacob Mosbacher guides a tractor through a bean field on his grandparents' property near Fults, Ill.  / AP photo
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Under the Labor Department's failed proposal, paid farm workers would have to be 16 to use power equipment, such as tractors. They would have to be 18 to work at grain elevators, silos and feedlots.

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