NPR September 10, 2022
NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Tara Haskins, health director at the healthcare-focused nonprofit AgriSafe, about a new suicide prevention hotline aimed to help agricultural workers.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Anyone having a mental health crisis in the United States can dial 988 for help. But in five states, there’s also a new pilot hotline that is specifically designed to try to help farmers and ranchers.
LINDA EMANUEL: I’ve often said it’s a life that we love and hate at the same time.
SIMON: Linda Emanuel helps run her family’s three-generation farm in Nebraska, and she says life on the farm can be uniquely demanding and as unpredictable as bad weather.
EMANUEL: It is defeating when you pour your...