Saving the farm: Heartland clergy train to prevent agriculture workers' suicides

Crop farmer Bob Worth plants corn in one of the many fields on his family’s 2,100 acres in Lake Benton, Minn., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Worth is a third-generation farmer who battled depression in the early ’80s and now advocates for further help and deeper conversations around mental health and suicide prevention. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) LAKE BENTON, Minn. - With traces of winter's unusually heavy snow still lingering but a warm sun finally shining, farmers were out dawn to dusk in early May on their tractors, planting corn and soybeans across southwestern Minnesota fields many have owned for generations….