Comment on Colorado Divide: As pressures mount for Colorado farmers, state pushes crisis hotline into remote, sometimes reluctant communiti

Colorado Divide: As pressures mount for Colorado farmers, state pushes crisis hotline into remote, sometimes reluctant communiti

Joe Miller’s longtime friend and neighbor committed suicide in the early 1990s. Signs were there – a farmer struggling to make ends meet after consecutive years of downturn coupled with a divorce – but he didn’t reach out for help when Miller drove him home the same night that he killed himself. “He didn’t say a word,” said Miller, who operates a family farm 15 miles east of Longmont. Now, after several years of historically low commodity prices, farmers across Colorado are facing financial pressures reminiscent of the 1980s.

 

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