Farming: Drought a test for mental health

“IF you want to rock someone’s mental health, give them a large dose of uncertainty.”That statement from the University of South Australia’s chair of Mental Health Nursing, Prof­essor Nicholas Procter, sums up the situation that many farmers are facing in the worst drought in ­living memory.“The weather patterns are totally out of their control and, […]

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