Opinion: Farmers Deserve Support to Cope With Stress

Published by the Environmental News Service

By Bob Worth, LAKE BENTON, Minnesota, May 13, 2020 (ENS) – Farm stress is certainly not a new concept. My father saw rural suicide rates spike in his farming days in the 1930s. When I was a young farmer just getting started in the ‘80s, I got super depressed. Interest rates were as high as 21 percent, while land and machinery values plummeted.

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