Farmers must give themselves a break - Brian Henderson
Last week saw the release of a plethora of reports on the state of farming’s mental health, the broad conclusion of which could be summarised as it isn’t all that it should be.
The reports added some meat to the bones of the findings released a month or so ago by the rural charity RABI which indicated that more than a third of those in the farming community were probably clinically depressed, while more than half of the women interviewed in the 15,0000-strong survey experienced mild, moderate or severe anxiety.
That survey also found that it tended to be a combination of factors which got on top of people – with worries over regulation, compliance and inspections, Covid-19, bad/unpredictable weather, loss of subsides/future trade deals all adding to the angst.
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