by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | 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 rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | 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 rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | 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 rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | 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...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Mental Health News|News
Farm strength takes many forms and our rural communities are stronger when we come together to prioritize our mental health. AFBF President Zippy Duvall sits down with California farmer Tara Beaver Coronado and Colorado Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Chad...
by rmadmin | Jun 7, 2024 | Mental Health News|News
In recognition of May as Mental Health Month, the American Farm Bureau Federation launched a comprehensive, easy-to-use online directory of resources for farmers, ranchers and their families who are experiencing stress and mental health challenges. The directory,...
