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+FARM FIELDS
+===========
+
+Provides common base field definitions for farmOS entity types.
+
+This module is not concerned with "fields" in the farming sense (see
+[Farm Area](http://drupal.org/project/farm_area) for that), but rather
+in the Drupal Field API sense. It provides fields for storing commong
+things like images, files, descriptions, dates, etc on Drupal entities
+in farmOS.
+
+This module is part of the [farmOS](http://drupal.org/project/farm)
+distribution.
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+------------
+
+This module depends on the following modules:
+
+ * Date (http://drupal.org/project/date)
+ * Entity Reference (http://drupal.org/project/entityreference)
+ * Features (http://drupal.org/project/features)
+ * Farm Asset (http://drupal.org/project/farm_asset)
+
+INSTALLATION
+------------
+
+Install as you would normally install a contributed drupal module. See:
+http://drupal.org/documentation/install/modules-themes/modules-7 for further
+information.
+
+MAINTAINERS
+-----------
+
+Current maintainers:
+ * Michael Stenta (m.stenta) - https://drupal.org/user/581414
+
+This project has been sponsored by:
+ * [Farmier](http://farmier.com)