Mental Health
It started with a broken baler. The farmer panicked. He had recently lost his brother to cancer and his father to old age. Not to mention he had 2,500 acres to farm, 250 beef cows to attend to and his crop just froze.
Farming is stressful—this year proves challenging for even experienced farmers. However, it’s important for you, friends and family to remember that stress on the farm should be just that—stress on the farm.
Younger rural adults reported experiencing more mental health challenges now than a year ago, according to an April 2019 rural stress poll conducted for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Calls to the Wisconsin Farm Center, which helps distressed farmers, were up last year, including a 33 percent increase in November and December compared to the same two months the previous year.
Minnesota farmer Bob Worth shares tools available to combat farm stress and depression and talks about the impact on his own family.
When it comes to mental health information, a new study shows farmers want to receive information face-to-face from their innermost circle.
The emotional toll of farming today is weighing on many livestock producers and farmers.
Here are some ideas, tips and strategies that can help you turn lemon days into lemonade.
Rates of depression tend to be higher in rural areas, yet rural residents may have a harder time accessing mental health care. A new $13.3 million study will help get the right treatment to the right patients.