Panelists sound alarm on farm family stress, mental health

Feb 20, 2020 at 08:20 AM CST - 1
Farmers are struggling with mental health issues and mental health providers are going to have to go to them if they hope to get people help, a panel of local women in agriculture told a recent conference on mental health. High Plains Mental Health with a grant from the Robert E. and Patricia A. Schmidt Foundation sponsored "Hope in the Heartland" conference on Feb. 8 on the FHSU campus in Hays to focus on mental health issues for farmers, ranchers and others in the ag industry. Suicides among farmers have soared, and low commodity prices and increasing input prices are creating increasing stress on families who make their livings from agriculture.

Feb 20, 2020 at 08:20 AM CST

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Farmers are struggling with mental health issues and mental health providers are going to have to go to them if they hope to get people help, a panel of local women in agriculture told a recent conference on mental health. High Plains Mental Health with a grant from the Robert E. and Patricia A. Schmidt Foundation sponsored "Hope in the Heartland" conference on Feb. 8 on the FHSU campus in Hays to focus on mental health issues for farmers, ranchers and others in the ag industry. Suicides among farmers have soared, and low commodity prices and increasing input prices are creating increasing stress on families who make their livings from agriculture.