An Legal Aid attorney from our Bancroft office provides many services to farm, ranch, and rural families throughout Nebraska.  Through the toll-free Nebraska Farm Hotline, the attorney will provide financial, legal, counseling services and referrals.  The Farm Hotline also offers the No Cost Mental Health Services program, which offers no cost vouchers for confidential mental health services for persons affected by the rural crisis.  The Farm Hotline is sponsored by the Farm Crisis Council of Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska. Another service is farm legal and financial clinics, sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Ag., through this service family farmers and ranchers can get one-on-one advice on financial matters and legal issues.  Clinics are held regularly in Ainsworth, Alliance, Norfolk, Beatrice, Grand Island, Lexington and North Platte.  Legal Aid also offers the Nebraska Farm Mediation Service which provides farm borrowers and their lenders the guidance of a highly skilled impartial mediator to resolve their disputes as an effective, confidential alternative to bankruptcy and potential foreclosure.  Farm borrowers who use the service are offered a free financial planner before the mediation meeting with their lenders.

This is a series of booklets designed specially for Farmers and those interested in Family Farming as a way of life.