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Living on a farm in early childhood is linked to a lower risk of allergies as an adult, and stronger lungs in women, than growing up in either a rural or urban area, finds research published online in the journal Thorax.

Whether it be feeding the calves after school or docking lambs, working on the family farm is a quintessential rural New Zealand right of passage for many kiwi kids.

Farmers deal in facts, so let’s do some myth busting.  When the new health and safety law is passed, children will not be banned from farms.

Thirty-seven people were killed at work in the last financial year; ten were in the agricultural industry.