department of agriculture


*For Immediate Release*




*Media Contact: *Larry Schumacher,

MDA Communications

651-201-6629

[email protected] <[email protected]>




November 28, 2022

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Three Awards Support Agricultural Mental Health

*St. Paul, MN*: Three new projects are joining the Minnesota Department of Agriculture?s (MDA) "Bend, Don?t Break Initiative" to help Minnesota farmers cope with adversity.

?Agriculture can be a tough profession and Minnesota farmers experience a wide variety of physical, mental, and business stresses day-to-day and season-to-season,? Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen said. ?We?re proud to work with partners like these to support farmers in meaningful ways.?

The following new projects received funding to support these efforts:


* *Minnesota FFA Foundation* - $52,000 grant to support student chapters across the state that create projects and activities in support of mental wellness for youth, farmers, and their communities.
* *Latino Economic Development Center* - $50,000 grant to develop and deliver innovative and culturally appropriate ways of providing financial counseling, problem solving, and other forms of enterprise support to historically underserved Minnesota farmers.
* *Southern Minnesota Agricultural Center of Excellence* - $25,000 award to provide consultation and coaching to farmers and farm families that are working on a transition or succession plan for their farm operations, and to contribute materials to a new Minnesota farm transition/succession workbook.

These organizations join 11 others in the MDA?s "Bend, Don?t Break" "Initiative," which is supported by a $559,605 award (no. 2021-70035-35461) from the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Program from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. For a full list of the "Bend, Don?t Break" "Initiative" awardees and their projects, as well as more resources for coping with farm and rural stress, visit www.mnfarmstress.com [ [link removed] ].

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