The farmer’s lot is a lonely one
‘In 2019–20, 133 people in farming took their own lives, more than double the average’
THE farmer sits in the air-conditioned cab of his tractor, equipped with every modern convenience and with power-steering making his job manually undemanding. Yet he is alone. The easy familiarity of farmer and farmworker has gone, because 300 acres can only yield a living if he
