Source:  FARM PROGRESS, 12/14/20


Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jon Tester, D-Mont., the only two farmers in the Senate, have successfully included their Seeding Rural Resilience Act – a bill aimed at curbing the rising rate of suicide in rural areas – as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, and is now headed to the President’s desk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate is 45% higher in rural America than in urban areas.

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