by MFBF Staff | Mar 6, 2023 | Mental Health News, News
Farm and ranch life can be demanding and stressful. Over the past several years, it has reached a critical stage for the folks who grow America’s food with COVID-19 pandemic impacts on top of natural disasters, extreme weather events, financial pressures due to... 
by Alex Lowery | May 17, 2021 | Mental Health News, News
Mental health continues to be a growing concern in the world, especially in the agriculture industry. Farmers, ranchers and rural community members face numerous challenges to their way of life on a daily basis that are out of their control. In the last decade, those... 
by MFBF Staff | May 14, 2021 | Mental Health News, News
Americans from all walks of life are struggling to cope with an array of issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fear and anxiety about this new disease and what could happen is sometimes overwhelming and can cause strong emotions in adults and children. But long... 
by MFBF Staff | May 12, 2021 | Mental Health News, News
A strong majority of farmers/farmworkers say the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their mental health, and more than half say they are personally experiencing more mental health challenges than they were a year ago, according to a new American Farm Bureau poll. The... 
by MFBF Staff | May 10, 2021 | Mental Health News, News
Farming can be stressful, even on the best days. Last March when COVID-19 hit, farmers and ranchers got a big load of stress on top of all the issues in farming we are already used to dealing with. Few of us thought back then that we’d still be in the midst of a... 
by MFBF Staff | May 7, 2021 | Mental Health News, News
To say that 2020 has been stressful would be an understatement. We started the year with weather disasters, then followed that up with COVID-19 and now we are saddened to watch the social unrest that’s happening across our country. For farmers and ranchers, volatility...