KAP Hosts Mental Health Webinar

A webinar on mental health was hosted Friday by Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).

 

Kim Hyndman-Moffat works for Canadian Suicide Prevention Services.

 

"COVID-19 has placed a lot of pressure on the cattle industry, it disrupted the supply chain, resulting in the backlog that we're all hearing about. Lower cattle prices, so there's a lot of folks concerned about that. I've heard different ones talking about the difficulties recruiting Temporary Foreign Workers because of COVID-19. Conditions that were dry to begin with, and then they turned to overland flooding over a course of a couple of days, that's set back a lot of producers too."

 

She says farming is one of most stressful jobs out there.

Video: Decoding Pig Performance With AI And Transcriptomics - Dr. Maria Walsh

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"Gene expression data provides biological insight into how pigs respond to nutrition, stress, and health challenges before visible production losses occur."