A post submitted by CGI member Dave68.

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In the vast stretches of rural Utah, where cattle graze and crops stretch to the horizon, another, far more invisible crisis has been quietly claiming lives, suicide among farmers and ranchers. In Utah, agricultural workers die by suicide at the third-highest rate among all professions, just behind miners and construction workers.

In 2016, male farmers and ranchers died by suicide at 43.2 per 100,000, roughly 60% higher than the 27.4 per 100,000 rate for working-age men in all occupations that year. Looking back to 2012, those in the combined farming, fishing, and forestry sector faced an 84.5 per 100,000 suicide rate, nearly six times the national average of 14.5 per 100,000. More recently, 2021 data show male farmers at 52.1 per 100,000 versus 32.0 per 100,000 for all working-age men, a 63% elevation in risk. There’s a silent epidemic sweeping rural America caused by the isolation, the relentless financial pressure, and buried by a deep-rooted cultural stigma around asking for help.

And what makes this crisis even more tragic? We had a solution. For a brief moment, hope came in the form of a federal initiative under the Biden administration that allocated emergency funds for mental health support to rural America, including Utah. Through this funding, Utah State University Extension was able to launch a life-saving program that offered $2,000 therapy vouchers to farmers and ranchers. The response was immediate and overwhelming, within just four months, the funds were gone, spent helping real people through real pain.

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https://prepper1cense.com/2025/05/05/urgent-u-s-farmers-face-financial-crisis-trump-administration-made-a-brutal-and-sho