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Note to the Trainer: "A Guide to Financial Record Keeping for Farmers and Ranchers" was designed in collaboration with community-based organizations serving diverse farmers ranging from new immigrant farmers to Native American cattle ranchers, Black and Asian vegetable producers and Latino apple producers. They designed this curriculum as the basic components they would need to customize a training program to meet the needs of their farmers.

The Rural Coalition and its members developed the curriculum for the benefit of minority farmers and other small farmers with major federal support from USDA Risk Management Agency Civil Rights and Community Outreach Program. Under the partnership agreement between the Rural Coalition and the Risk Management Agency, this manual is the property of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC). The FCIC has granted the Rural Coalition a permanent license to distribute these materials for non-commercial, educational and governmental purposes only.

Under this agreement, the Rural Coalition is granting permission to you and/or your organization to reproduce and utilize A Guide to Financial Record Keeping for Farmers and Ranchers as follows. The manual may only be reproduced for the training of farmers or for related educational purposes. Users agree to provide credit to the producers of these materials and agree that the materials will not be sold, nor farmers charged any fees, for training using A Guide to Financial Record Keeping for Farmers and Ranchers. Access to any training use these materials must be granted without regard to race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.

Trainers should select which of the record keeping materials and forms included in this curriculum are most appropriate for the types of farming operations and farmers included in the training. Trainers might also select from among the concepts and examples using only those that are most relevant to their community. Trainers should also add materials and examples needed to make the training relevant and helpful for the various types of farmers that are involved in training.

For more information please contact the Rural Coalition at (202) 628-7160.

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  • I agree that, if reproduced, these materials will be used to train farmers and ranchers or for related educational purposes. These materials may not be sold nor used to develop materials for sale. No one will be charged a fee for training using these materials. Access to these materials and any training in which they are used will be granted without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.

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