Clergy urged to aid farmers facing stress in rural Wisconsin
A seminar on Stress in Rural Wisconsin: The Clergy's Role featured four panelists including dairy farmer Mike Beilke of Fairwater who urged clergy to listen and visit farms. They emphasized pastors must reach out, understand farm realities, and support families through loss and debt while urging farmers to seek spiritual counseling.
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Mike Beilke
Fairwater
Wisconsin
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Farm women face stress from multiple roles
Iowa State University Extension specialist Ruth Harmelink reports farm women face stress from juggling six roles including mother daughter wife farmer homemaker and self time. Interviews with 11 women across Iowa in 1978 86 reveal emotional strain and a sense of isolation amid the rural crisis.
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Ruth Harmelink
Iowa State University Extension
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