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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.