Code of Colorado Regulations
1200 - Department of Agriculture
1207 - Agriculture Commissioner's Office
8 CCR 1207-3 - RULES PERTAINING TO THE AGRICULTURAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Part 3 - Internship Requirements

3.1.1. Include an educational focus preparing interns for a career in one or more occupational areas including, but not limited to, agribusiness, animal husbandry, crop production, farm management, agronomy, natural resources, forestry, research and development, marketing and sales, food safety, and/or maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment.

3.1.2. Provide for an educational experience of at least 130 hours and not exceed six (6) months in duration per intern.

3.1.3. Pay the intern at a rate at least consistent with the State's prevailing minimum wage to be paid in accordance with the participating businesses normal payroll processes but paid at least monthly.

3.1.4. Provide a supervisor for the intern.

3.1.5. Provide worker's compensation insurance coverage for the intern.

3.2.1. Be a student; or

3.2.2. Be a graduate from a secondary school, adult education, college, or certificate program within six (6) months post-graduation; or

3.2.3. Be a beginning farmer, rancher or forester; and

3.2.4. Not be a current or past employee; and

3.2.5. Not be a relative of the owner or operator of the participating business.