Mental Health

From charity walks to tea breaks to celebrity backing, the campaign for better mental health in farming is slowly gaining momentum. We take a look at some of our most inspiring mental health stories from the past year

Caerfyrddin MP Ann Davies writes on why farmers must open up and talk about mental health

As Mental Health Awareness week kicks off for 2026, a new ‘Book Farmacy’ pilot as been announced to target the mental health crisis in Scotland’s farming communities

There are difficult days when it feels like the entire world is on the shoulders of the people who grow our food, but one magical moment on Britain's Got Talent shows people really care about British farmers

Rita Poulsen has criticised the response to her husband's inquest with the former teacher comparing farm inspections to the Ofsted 'regime of fear' in education

Take time to stop, pop the kettle on, make a phone call, and catch up with a friend during the Big Farm Tea Break (March 23-29)

Farming communities demonstrated strength and resilience to overcome the foot-and-mouth crisis and its aftermath. But have lessons been learnt 25 years on?

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

Before his career in politics, Epping Forest MP Dr Neil Hudson was a veterinary inspector who was on the frontline of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2001. Dr Hudson remembers the once bustling farms which became empty, the impact it had on the sector's mental health, and why the current Government should never take the UK's national biosecurity for granted

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn reflects on the outbreak 25 years ago, the heartbreaking conversations he had with farmers, the devastating open-air pyres of livestock being culled to stop the disease from spreading, and the determination of farmers to never let things become so bad again