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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]
"The effect will be long lasting," said Ty Higgins, director of communications for the Ohio Farm Bureau. Of the Buckeye State's 88 counties, 87 were highlighted as parched when the U.S. Drought ...
In a study of North Carolina migrant farm workers, Hiott et al. (2008) found that migrant farm workers who experienced social isolation and poor work conditions were more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and depression, and Sandberg et al. (2012) found that 28% of Latino farmworkers reported depressive symptoms. [82] [83]
The National Farmers Organization (NFO) is a producer movement founded in the United States in 1955, by farmers, especially younger farmers with mortgages, frustrated by too often receiving crop and produce prices that produced a living that paid less than the minimum wage, and could not even cover the cost of seed, fertilizer, land, etc. This ...
Ohio's corn and soybean harvest is ahead of schedule and much smaller than farmers would have liked. 'Off by quite a bit': Ohio farmers nearly done with meager harvest weeks ahead of schedule Skip ...
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 ...
Farmers in high protest states faced high price variability due to the pattern of prices that was influenced by the railroad network that linked the states. Although, there is evidence that the drop in transportation costs caused farmers with suitable soils to diversify their crops in order to take advantage of relative farm gate prices.
A farm crisis is an American term for a time of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes. The Interwar farm crisis was an extended period of depressed agricultural incomes from the end of the First to the start of the Second World War. The most recent US farm crisis occurred during the 1980s. [1] [2] [3]