The mental health specialist with the Farm Family Resource Initiative (FFRI) says the group’s Helpline is seeing an increase in calls from farmers battling stress. Rachel Brown tells Brownfield, “Just to have somebody to talk to sometimes, to talk about the stress that’s going on, sometimes we just need to have somebody there to be […]
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