Behavioral Health Planning: A Key to Farming in the Era of COVID-19
AgriSafe Network is hosting a webinar Tuesday, May 12, 2020 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT to help you deal with challenges caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.
COVID-19 adds new uncertainties to farming on top of a five-year or longer economic recession in most sectors of agriculture. Like climate shifts, tariffs, and disease outbreaks in crops and livestock, COVID-19 is largely beyond the control of agricultural producers. Importantly however, we can mostly control how we behave. Agricultural producers will learn how to develop plans for minimizing infections of the virus, set up arrangements for access to necessary inputs such as equipment and repairs, contracts for a labor force and transportation, and where to become knowledgeable about federal and state assistance programs. Farm families will learn how to develop behavior plans that include: signs of physical and emotional distress, daily behavior practices that nurture one another even if isolation becomes necessary, looking out for neighbors and loved ones while maintaining physical distance, building a support network that can be contacted when specific expertise is needed, and more. Examples of these coping tactics will be shared for 25 minutes by Dr. Rosmann, integrated with 25 minutes of questions and comments from the webinar participants.