Displaying items by tag: mental health

Look after your wellbeing and take a moment to check on your neighbours.

After narrowly avoiding a helicopter crash in the Southern Alps, instead of feeling relieved, TV presenter Matt Chisholm was disappointed.

More than $40,000 has been raised to lead a mental health initiative for forestry at a charity auction dinner held in Rotorua last week.

To mark Mental Health Awareness week, Taranaki dairy farmer Kane Brisco recently joined a recent DairyNZ podcast to share some timely advice on how farmers could take care of themselves.

Mental health programme Farmstrong is encouraging people to get off farm and take a break.

OPINION: Farmer morale is at a low – unseen since the dark days of the 1980s.

When Kathryn Walker saw data around the mental health pressures of working in the wine industry, she was shocked.

A new initiative has been launched to improve access to counselling for farmers.

A new initiative is being funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to help improve the wellbeing of young people in rural communities.

OPINION: There was pin drop silence when former National Party leader Todd Muller recently addresses over 400 farmers at the DairyNZ Farmers Forum in Hamilton.