Addressing how you will personally deal with challenges that arise from change in the farming community will help overcome these changes and use them instead to progress. It is important to learn from change, there is no use holding on to past negative experiences, but instead to see them as learning experiences that enable you to move on from.
- Debt management
- Crisis plans
- Building and developing resilience as farming is changing
- Doug Avery, The Resilient Farmer
- Later Life Care
REPORT
Mental health in agriculture: preventing and managing psychosocial risks for farmers and farm workers – European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
A report published in December 2024 by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work lists the following as the biggest stressors in agriculture:
- Social isolation
- Inability to rest
- Financial insecurity
- Administrative and regulatory pressures
- Sector transformation
- Climate change
