Farmers need to take #5for5 this Mental Health Awareness Week
Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) is asking the farming community to try to find time to take five minutes to reach out to five friends and check how they’re getting on.
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Farm support charities are encouraging farmers to have open conversations about mental health following a challenging year.
The combination of Brexit uncertainty, Covid-19, and new farming policies have heaped immense pressure on farmers and their mental health and wellbeing.
The threat to British farming of substandard food imports in future trade deals, and a new farm support system that will see the phased reduction of direct support, have caused a perfect storm of problems, say farming unions.
Extreme weather events, rural crime, a lack of adequate labour supply and uncertain market conditions have added to the difficulties.