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'Risk of death by suicide': Ohio farmers can now access mental-health resources 24/7 'Springs have run dry' The rolling hills of southeastern Ohio are prime land for livestock producers.
In response to the challenges faced by farmers and the epidemic proportion of suicides. [96] As a result of farmer suicide, research on farmers’ mental health increased sharply with a focus on financial difficulties farms faced during the 1980s and depression. [97]
This planting season, Ohio crop farmers are worried about the weather as always, but also low commodity prices. New ethanol markets offer some hope. With 'record droughts' in income predicted ...
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
Rural areas of Ohio have some of the highest rates of suicide state-wide, according to the Ohio Department of Health. [28] Three farmers from the close-knit community of Georgetown committed suicide between mid-2015 and 2017. [3] Several initiatives have been launched to combat the problem, including the "Ohio's Got Your Back" campaign. [28]
Farmers' suicides in the United States refers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers. In the Midwest alone, over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. It mirrors a crisis ...
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