{"id":66045,"date":"2017-12-06T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66045"},"modified":"2017-12-06T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T22:38:11","slug":"guardian-why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers-the-suicide-rate-for-farmers-is-more-than-double-that-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66045","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Why are America&#8217;s farmers killing themselves in record numbers? The suicide rate for farmers is more than double that of veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2013, net farm income for US farmers has<a class=\"u-underline in-body-link--immersive\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/topics\/farm-economy\/farm-household-well-being\/farm-household-income-forecast\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">\u00a0declined 50%<\/a>. Median farm income for 2017 is projected to be\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline in-body-link--immersive\" draggable=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/topics\/farm-economy\/farm-household-well-being\/farm-household-income-forecast\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">negative $1,325<\/a>. And without parity in place (essentially a minimum price floor for farm products), most commodity prices remain below the cost of production.<\/p>\n<p>In an email, Rosmann wrote, \u201cThe rate of self-imposed [farmer] death rises and falls in accordance with their economic well-being \u2026 Suicide is currently rising because of our current farm recession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inside the sunny lobby of the newly remodeled Onaga community hospital, where Joyce Blaske happens to work in the business department, Dr Nancy Zidek has just finished her rounds. As a family medicine doctor, she sees behavioral health issues frequently among her farmer patients, which she attributes to the stressors inherent in farming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your farm is struggling, you\u2019re certainly going to be depressed and going to be worried about how to put food on the table, how to get your kids to college,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/dec\/06\/why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2013, net farm income for US farmers has\u00a0declined 50%. Median farm income for 2017 is projected to be\u00a0negative $1,325. And without parity in place (essentially a minimum price floor for farm products), most commodity prices remain below the cost<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66045\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,597,177,593,603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pastoral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66047,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66045\/revisions\/66047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}