Farm Stress Real Talk with Penn State Extension

Join our Penn State educators as we talk briefly about some of major regulations that can cause significant stress for farmers and their loved ones. While many of these regulations are beyond our control, Jill and Sonya discuss some helpful strategies for farmers and their families to handle these regulations to avoid creating additional stress when regulations are not met.

While disease outbreaks can often be an uncontrollable stressor for farmers and their livestock, there are measures that can be taken to prevent catastrophic losses. In this episode of Farm Stress Real Talk with Penn State Extension, our educators discuss some general preventative steps to mitigate the presence of disease outbreaks among their commodities while discussing farmers' wellness and how this stress can translate into potential health concerns for producers. Our educators provide suggestions for effective coping strategies for farmers who are dealing with the aftereffects of disease outbreak on their properties. 

In this episode, Chi and Amber introduce and discuss some everyday financial stressors that farmers and their families face. While many of these stressors fall outside an individual's control, Chi offers some stress management techniques for dealing with these stressors, along with some proactive suggestions to mitigate the effects of financial strain.

Farmers have a high risk of being involved in a work-related accident due to the labor-intensive nature of their work. While some accidents are definitively unavoidable, it is crucial to learn how to manage the aftereffects of an accident through healthy coping mechanisms. This episode also briefly discusses how consistent healthy wellness practices can play in preventing farm accidents from occurring.

In this episode, Extension Educator Jill Varner will provide practical insight for managing stress related to topics that are beyond our control like the weather. 

Episode host: Ginger Fenton w/ speaker Jill Varner

Image: Photo by Ginger Fenton, Penn State Extension