mental health

This week's blog is from Alex Black, Farmers Guardian's head of news and business.

Farmers are being urged to take better care of their health by making use of health services being offered at auction marts.

Farming Community Network said it hoped the delivery of wellbeing training to bodies such as the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Natural England would lead to more empathetic conversations with farmers

The DPJ Foundation said for a small charity this amount of money will make a huge difference. Last year, it cost the charity over £100,000 pounds in counselling costs through their 'share the load' service

The agricultural mental health charity encouraged people to take a break from their farming life, start up their bbq and bring people and communities together

NFU president Minette Batters said all the mixed messages were causing distress amongst her members

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A mammoth road trip which has seen four friends drive a combine harvester from John o' Groats to Land's End in support of mental health charity MIND and Children with Cancer UK has raised more than £35,000.

The NFU said the Government needs to take further action to support farmers with spiralling production costs and the impact on their mental health