June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and a farm-focused initiative has found four factors that adversely affect male producers’ mental well-being.
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Male farmers face stresses unique to agriculture
Loss of animals, farm succession, labour-intensive harvest and higher suicide rates contribute to farmers’ mental burden
Mental health counselling offered to producers
AgKnow breaking down the barriers to mental health access for farmers
Given the physical demands that agriculture has with the weighty responsible of feeding the world, sometimes the mental weight of such a huge responsibility can be pushed aside.
Mental health counselling service in Alta. runs out of money
AgKnow lays off all its staff due to funding shortfall but uses automation to allow clients to continue accessing services
A popular program that offered free mental health counselling to farmers has paused its services because of a lack of money, says its director. Linda Hunt said without bridge financing, or more permanent financing, AgKnow had no choice but to lay off all its staff, including herself, at the end of October. Money the organization […] Read more
