All rights reserved. Cover stories and major headlines across the country proclaim that there is real trouble on the farm. Most of the stories about farm problems are mainly about the economic difficulties facing farmers and seldom about the human side of these financial problems.
Stress is a human cost of the risky business of farming.
Stress is familiar. It's hard to pick up a newspaper or magazine that doesn't have an article on stress, its effects, and management. If continued over long periods of time and in large quantities, these stress reactions can become a serious threat to both physical and mental health. Basically, this stress reaction is our emergency alert system. It prepares our body to defend itself.