Three years ago Matsunaga summoned the courage to tell officials of the labyrinthine agricultural bureaucracy that he wanted to sell half his crop to wholesalers whose sorting machines could do the burdensome packing.

FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart

Early versions of new labor restrictions still being hashed out in Congress would have barred children under 16 from operating power-driven farm equipment and kept anyone under 18 from working at agricultural co-ops and stockyards (the latest version would let kids keep running machines on their parents' spreads).

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