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Ag Apprentice Toolkit Version 1.0

Laura Barley and, Devon Tate (February, 2018)

Summary

This toolkit will provide you with peer reviewed guidance for starting an on-farm/ranch agricultural apprenticeship program, and is intended to serve as a resource guide that unites existing ag apprenticeship programs, shares best practices, and outlines the development and maintenance of a successful professional agricultural training program. This toolkit also seeks to coherently outline the state and federal Department of Labor (DOL) laws surrounding on-farm apprenticeships and the standards that must be met in order to comply with these laws, in hopes of protecting training programs through encouraging movement towards legally compliant structures for on farm labor and learning.