Mental Health

This week is Mental Health Awareness week (May 9 – 15) where people in the UK are encouraged to raise awareness of mental health issues and help break the stigma that still surrounds mental health.

Three young farmers have completed a 29-hour milking marathon, raising more than £3,000 for the Farm Safety Foundation (FSF).

A lack of appreciation of the importance of food production in Government and wider society is fuelling a mental health crisis among farmworkers, according to industry experts.

A fourth-generation Welsh dairy farmer who has lost his entire herd to bovine tuberculosis is calling on farmers to come together to demand a change in Government policy.

A 25-year-old young farmer from Wales sadly took his own life last Friday night (April 29). 

The NFU poultry team is embarking on a 130-mile egg and spoon relay in memory of former board member and Poultry Industry Programme (PIP) chair Patrick Joice.

A new well-being survey ‘designed by farmers for farmers’ is hoped to provide a better understanding into Scottish farmers’ and crofters’ needs and concerns.

A farmer has received a 26-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, following the death of his four-year-old nephew in a farm incident. 

Nick Grayson, a mixed tenant farmer in Rotherham and vice chair of the Future Farmers of Yorkshire, a group supported by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.

A farmer has highlighted the importance of ‘opening the flood gates’ to encourage male peers to speak out about poor mental health.