Farmers losing hope, suicide up

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Suicide rates show more Colorado farmers losing hope
Suicide hotlines field calls as prices fall and money woes mount
By Miles Moffeit

The Denver Post
Posted: 06/03/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Updated: 06/03/2009 01:43:45 PM MDT


The phone calls usually come in the evening after the machinery goes silent on farms across the country. The callers speak of dwindling cash flows, crumbling marriages. Some admit they're holding a loaded gun.

Across a wide swath of rural America, increasing numbers of farmers are considering taking their lives.

more here: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12506134
 
Check out this reply that one poster put up at the article: (I still can't believe it!)

AmaranthArticia wrote:
"I'm sorry, but I just see farming as a hobby that some people consider a "job." I myself am one of those there city slickers who don't know nuthin about the land, but I do have loads of cousins in Nebraska who have operating farms. My cousin Lee told me that anyone with a little bit of video game experience could operate a full-blown combine, it's that easy. Just a few buttons and a joystick, apparently. Meanwhile, farmers are all in hock up to their eyeballs throughout their life and even though they go to college and get buisness degrees, their degrees are useless because all they know is farm business! Essentially all family farms are these days are overpriced, oversize, vegetable gardens! Now seriously, would you kill yourself because your garden isn't doing well?

I'm all for corporate entities buying up the family farms and getting these farm boys out of the middle of nowhere and into real, productive jobs. Maybe when they see that things are more interesting when your next neighbor isn't 5 miles away they'll realise shooting themselves over a farm is one of the dumber ideas around."​
 
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When the "Farm Boys" pack it in and this fool is starving I want to be a fly on the wall! What a moron!
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What an (insert something nasty here)! Sorry but those high tech combines cost a few hundred thousand dollars, our old stuff is all we can afford and it takes mad skills to operate. Also, when theres no more wheat for bread (the staple of most ppls lives) and this city slicker is starving because he doesnt know how to grow even a weed who is going to look smarter THEN!? Of all the nerve! We only farm 100 acres, but that still produces a LOT of wheat to feed people with... idiot....
 
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....oh hot dog .. now that one lights a fire under my tail boys....oh
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and that person thinks they are so smart.
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Pumpkinpup wrote:
When the "Farm Boys" pack it in and this fool is starving I want to be a fly on the wall! What a moron!

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sparkles2307 wrote:

What an (insert something nasty here)! Sorry but those high tech combines cost a few hundred thousand dollars, our old stuff is all we can afford and it takes mad skills to operate. Also, when theres no more wheat for bread (the staple of most ppls lives) and this city slicker is starving because he doesnt know how to grow even a weed who is going to look smarter THEN!? Of all the nerve! We only farm 100 acres, but that still produces a LOT of wheat to feed people with... idiot....

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and kiss ..kiss it does take mad skills when my DH tried to teach me to drive his highlift I looked at him like he was crazy.
I'll stick to the cookin'
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that person burns my butt
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