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    • Emma Yerkey with her dad, Tim Yerkey, and a ribbon-winning calf they raised together. The family farms near Geneseo, Illinois. Tim Yerkey died by suicide in 2011. He had been struggling for about a year when spring floods left fields underwater. He had visited the emergency room seeking mental-health help, only to be told there were no beds, Yerkey said. (Photo courtesy of Emma Yerkey)

      As Farmers Face Trade Wars and Inflation, Calls to Mental Health Hotlines Rise

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      This fall the Iowa Concern hotline saw four to five times the number of calls it had in the same months last year. The Farm Aid hotline is seeing a...

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