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Just a scoop full(Sept. 3)--To run any business, more than likely, you need workers. I believe it is harder all the time to find people who want to work. At the livestock auction, I try to keep enough help that we can run a very speedy auction. I have a customer from Arkansas who came to watch his cattle sell. I asked him if he knew of two or three younger guys or gals that would be interested in moving to Oklahoma and working. He said, "If I could find them I would hire them myself." I would like to challenge politicians to consider giving a tax deduction to parents who allow their kids to start working as early as the age of 12. The government needs to not only change their status on kids working that young but promote it, with their parents' consent. If a kid learns to work at an early age, he will be a lot more willing to work later in life. Trust me--you can tell a big difference in kids who learn to work from those who don't. There are several big corporations in cities that love to hire farm kids for that reason. For the past several months, the corn market has been quite a roller coaster. If you are a farmer, you definitely need more for your crops. If you are basically a cattleman, then you definitely need corn to stay at a reasonable figure. When corn reached their highs a few months ago, cattlemen's only salvation was the fact that cattle numbers were very short in supply. That's the only thing that kept cattle prices from falling hard on feeder cattle. Some of our area to the west has started planting wheat. On some of my land I am planting rye. Being a cattleman instead of a farmer, then I will not be tempted to do anything but graze it out. Combine is actually a dirty word at our house. And, besides, it's hard to teach an old dog a new trick. Editor's Note: Jerry Nine, Woodward, Okla., is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family's ranch near s, Okla. 9/15/08 Date: 9/10/08
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