DairyNZ Farmers Forum Series - Rural Mental Health and Wellbeing

A recording of the webinar held in March 2022.

Key themes and further information:

DairyNZ have time-stamped some of the key themes below:

• 03:20 Jim van der Poel, DairyNZ Chair – brief overview of DairyNZ’s views on rural mental health, including what we know about the drivers and scale of the challenge and what DairyNZ is doing to get better outcomes for farmers;

• 07:55 Doug Avery – Former farmer and rural mental health advocate, shares his own personal story and discusses rural mental health and keeping ourselves and others well.

• 36:00 Dairy Farmer Panel – Wayne Langford, Loshni Manikam and Neil Bateup – discuss why they’re passionate about mental health, their own experiences, their “take” on Doug’s presentation and what they see as the drivers of poor mental health in rural NZ.

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