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Farming is both a joy and a difficult job, requiring work around the clock. It’s also a profession impacted by a variety of challenges — weather, commodity price changes, a fluctuating economy and now the COVID-19 pandemic. 

a disruption in the country’s supply chains

impacting the state’s dairy supply chain

requiring Minnesotans to find new markets

. It also affected processing plants as the virus spread among workers, 

On Wednesday, MPR News guest host Chris Farrell talked with an economist and a rural mental health counselor about the state of the agriculture industry and how farmers —and rural communities — are coping with stress. 

Farmers grapple with stress and depression as they try to keep their operations afloat

Farmers enter planting season amid low prices, COVID-19

Local farmers find new markets

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How are Minnesota’s farmers and rural communities faring through economic change and the pandemic? We turn to an economist and rural mental health specialist. 

How our economy — and the pandemic — factor into farm stress

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