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Farmers' Suicide in the United States

fers to the instances of American farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but as a larger mental-health crisis among U.S. agriculture workers.

Jimmy Carter's decision to introduce a grain embargo against the Soviet Union crippled American farmers as the 1980s beganIn 1985, after Ronald Reagan had been president for four years, the Farm Credit System(FCS) lost $2.7 billion – the largest one-year loss of any financial institution in U.S. President of the American Farm Bureau Federation(AFBF), Zippy Duvall, said that the group would study the order's details and would work with the administration "to ensure changes are consistent with our grassroots policy, and farmers and ranchers are provided greater flexibility to remain competitive in our growing economy. Retrieved March 9, 2024.^"Obituary: Leon Statz, 57, Loganville" – Reedsburg Times-Press, October 10, 2018^"America's farmers face multiplying pressures" – The Economist, September 20, 2020^"Selling the cows was 'the hardest part'" – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 19, 2019^"Green Bay Press-Gazette".

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