{"id":794927,"date":"2026-07-31T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/794927\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:54:08","slug":"radio-1-farming-star-in-shropshire-says-hot-weather-is-adding-to-mental-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/794927\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1 farming star in Shropshire says hot weather is adding to mental health struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hot weather is not the only pressure on farmers &#8211; the cost of diesel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c707n1wr8zno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fertiliser has risen due to the war in Iran <\/a>and the money the farm received for milk fell at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This time last year, we were being paid nearly 45 pence a litre [of milk],&#8221; Everall said. &#8220;This year we&#8217;re being paid about 31 at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Add all those together, along with the long hours and day-to-day farming issues and the 27-year-old knows it is &#8220;easy for your head to spiral&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You really have to work out with your own head why you&#8217;re doing it,&#8221; he said, considering his and other farmers&#8217; mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love it and because it is, and it can be, an incredible way of life &#8211; we&#8217;re very lucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely been more a year to check in with your mates.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hot weather is not the only pressure on farmers &#8211; the cost of diesel and fertiliser has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-794927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}