Opinion: Mind Your Head – Inheriting land and legacy, but breaking the silence

Farm Safety Foundation ambassador Poggy Murray Whitham explores how issues like isolation, legacy, identity and changing cultural attitudes are shaping a gradual shift toward greater openness and peer support in farming

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Farm Safety Foundation's annual awareness week Mind Your Head, run by the charity Yellow Wellies, continues to confront a difficult reality: farming and agriculture remain areas affected by suicide and...

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