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COVID-19 brings new challenges, awareness to rural mental health crisis

05/27/20 6:40 AM By Hannah Pagel
KEYWORDS Anne Hazlett Bob Worth CDC Centers for Disease and Control covid-19 family farms farmer suicide farmers Lillie Beringer mental health Michael Rosmann National Drug Control Policy suicide Theresia Gillie
COVID-19 brought a wave of new economic challenges that producers are still working through. But for beginning farmers, the pandemic has added a new level of stress that's making it that much harder to get started in agriculture, echoing the psychological toll of the 1980s.
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Hannah Pagel
Associate Editor

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