Tag: Farming Stress

Sadly, our friends, family, and clients who reside and work in distant, rural and remote communities are often forced to deal with additional hardships such as a highly unpredictable climate, extreme market conditions, financial strain, isolation, long working hours and even reduced access to fundamental services. As such, many farming stress families respond to these hard times by tightening the household budget belt and allocating fewer funds to food, clothing, entertainment, and maintenance of their belongings and equipment. They may also rely more heavily on credit; thus increasing their household debt. The increased effort of attempting to provide for a...