labour shortages<\/a>, competition from imports and increasing bureaucracy.<\/p>\n“If it was any other industry it would be catastrophic,” says Steve Glover.<\/p>\n
His father Roy Glover, 84, added: “I’ve never seen a worse time in farming.”<\/p>\n
Both say greater understanding from policymakers and more open conversations are vital to stop farmers struggling in silence.<\/p>\n
A Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson said farmers were “at the heart of our food security and environmental stewardship”. <\/p>\n
“Their mental health and wellbeing matters, and we want to ensure they can access support when they need it,” they added.<\/p>\n
“We know that farmers and rural communities face real pressures, and we continue to listen to their concerns so that we can better respond to the difficulties they face.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve and Roy Glover, who have a farm near Dartford, say what was once a pleasure has become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-285122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}