Publications
Understanding Farm Personalities: Why We Act as We Do
We all have PERSONALITY. Each person is born with personality tendencies that can somewhat predict behaviors and tend to become more refined as aging and maturity occurs. Knowing your personality tendencies and that of others, has reportedly benefited many farm couple and family relationships by helping identify and manage personality differences. People can learn to gravitate more toward personality strengths and positive thoughts, attributes, and emotions, as well as to mitigate personality weaknesses and negative thoughts, attributes, and emotion.
Understanding Farm Personalities: Why We Act as We Do
Managing Farm Stress and Distress Publication includes:
- Intro - Managing Farm Stress and Distress - Mindset Tactics for Happiness, Brain Health, and Behavioral Well-Being
- Part 1 - Mitigating Farm Distress - Mindfulness Over Emotions
- Part 2 - Destressing Farm Relationships - Intentional Attitudinal Behaviors
- Summary - Fixes for Brain and Behavioral Health - 30 Key Tools in the Farmer's Mental Health Toolbox
Read the Managing Farm Stress and Distress Publication
Farm and Family Stress Resources Publication includes:
- Farm and Market Reality, Stress, and Grief
- PRIMER for Farm Stress Resiliency
- Keys When "Married" to Farm Stress
- From One 'Dairy Girl' to the Next
- Helping Farm Men Under Crisis
- Farm Youth Stress and Challenges
- Good Grief - We Just Lost
Webinars
- Rural Resiliency: Caring for You and Yours Webinar Series
- Managing in Tough Financial Times
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- Managing Dairy Farm Finances (pdf)
- Managing Dairy Farm Finances (Adobe Connect)
- Dairy Finances 101 for Crisis Situations (pdf)
- What Do You Tell the Kids in Tough Times? (Adobe Connect)
- Using Dairy TRANS to Help Dairies Perform (Adobe Connect)
- Dairy Farm Stress Series
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- Recognizing and Managing Stress in Dairy Farmers (Adobe Connect)
- Farm Stress & Decision-Making During Challenging Times
- Your Work as an Ag Professional: Helping Tame Farm Stress
- Managing Stress, Anger, Anxiety, and Depression on Dairy Farms
- How to Cultivate a Productive Mindset-Michigan State University Extension
- Dairy Outlook (Adobe Connect)
- Know your Cost of Production (Adobe Connect)
- Making Production Decisions During Challenging Times (Adobe Connect)
- Managing Farm Stress in the Midst of COVID-19 | The Spokesman Speaks Podcast, 3-part Series,
Additional Resources
- Farm Stress Resource Links
- National Ag Safety Database - Impact for Farm Families Collection
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- Agricultural Safety and Health are Improving, but not for Psychological Injuries and Fatalities
- Depression: Common for Farm People
- Tips on Recognizing and Dealing with Depression
- Behavioral Health Problems of Farm People Differ from the General Population
- Anxiety and Depression: Common, but Manageable for Farmers Handling Relationship Problems
- Enhances the Well-Being of Farm People
- Farmers' Common Behavioral Health Issues often are Occupation-Related
- Suicide: Permanent End to a Temporary Problem