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


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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....