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SC Ag Commissioner Concerned about Proposed Department of Labor Regulations

  Program 6881  (download mp3)
  Posted on Tue, Dec 20, 2011


Earlier this year, the US Department of Labor proposed new rules regarding youth under the age of 16, which could affect the work young people have been doing on farms for generations.  SC Ag Commissioner Hugh Weathers is concerned that the work ethic of future generations will be affected, as well as programs such as 4-H and FFA. 

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