G2S— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2, 1980
NEWARK, Del. - Farm
employers should insist that
young employees and
summer help have training
exemptions before working
on a farm, according to
Delaware extension safety
specialist Ron Jester.
The child labor provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards
Act state that youth under 16
cannot be employed in
certain hazardous
agricultural operations
anless they had special
training and received a
certificate.
The provisions do not
apply to youth working on
the farms of their parents or
guardians, but the training is
still essential, says Jester.
Wool grower calls
“sacrificial lamb”
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
R. J. Rich, chairman of
the board of directors of the
National Wool Growers
Association, said he was not
surprised at the Carter
Admimstation’s grain
embargo of the Soviet Umon.
In remarks before the
115th meeting of the nation’s
oldest livestock
organization, Rich said
“agriculture is usually
always the ‘sacrificial lamb’
whether it is the en
vironment, the economy or
foreign affairs.”
“We are m sympathy with
our farmer friends,” said
Rich, “because the Wool
Young farm
Among the hazardous jobs
not open to youth are
operating a tractor over 20-
belt horsepower, operating
or assisting with the
operation of certain pieces of
farm machinery, operating
or assisting with trenchers,
fork lifts, chain saws, or
other types of machines, and
working inside airtight
produce and gram storages
or silos.
Other forbidden jobs in
volve working at high
elevations, handling
hazardous materials,
working pens with breeding
stock, handling explosives or
anhydrous ammonia,
working m heavy timber
operations, transporting
Growers know very well how
capricious the Ad
ministration is toward
agriculture.”
He cited President Car
ter’s 60 percent reduction in
wool tariffs, the recent
Andrus predator control
program protecting coyotes
at the expense of sheep and
Secretary Bergland’s
condemnation of wool
grower efforts to control
lamb imports on similar
actions.
“Throwing com at the
Russian Bear is not going to
scare him off,” said the
Burley, Idaho, rancher.
workers need training exemptions
passengers in buses, trac
tors, trucks or autos, or
riding on a tractor as a
passenger or helper.
In certain of these
operations, notes Jester, 14-
and 15-year-old farm
workers can receive
exemptions if they have
completed formal training in
these areas.
Training programs
available for 14- and 15-year
olds teach them about
normal working hazards
involved with tractor and
farm machinery.
Written and operational
examinations test their
knowledge of the correst use
of machinery.
farmers
for U.S.
referring to the Russian
invasion of Afghanistan.
“It will, however, have
economic and political
repercussions in this
country.”
Rich went on to praise
sheep producers in the U.S.
He predicted that sheep
numbers in America would
show an increase over 1979,
halting a 20-year decline.
“This is a tribute to our
determination and the work
of the National Association,”
Rich declared. “We will
redouble our efforts in this
next decade to strengthen
the industry and provide
America with quality food
and fiber,” he concluded.
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