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1. Drone view of a solitary, gravel farm road
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Worth, Crop Farmer:
"Farming is a very unique occupation."
3. Worth in his tractor planting corn
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Worth, Crop Farmer:
"I mean, it's a stressful occupation. A lot of times you don't make any money."
5. Various of Worth in his tractor planting corn
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) The Rev. Alan Blankenfeld, rural ministry liaison for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's South Dakota synod:
"Farmers and ranchers, they keep everything so bottled up."
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7. Drone view of Worth in his tractor planting corn
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Sanderson, Crop Farmer:
"Excuse me. I love what I do. You know, there's such a variety in this occupation and so many challenges. Of course I grew up doing it and so it's something I've always wanted to do."
9. Exterior shot of Sanderson driving his tractor planting corn
10. Sanderson steering his tractor while planting corn
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Worth, Crop Farmer:
"Well the depression, you know, I didn't know what it was really at that time. It got to be where I didn't want to go out of the house, sometimes I didn't even want to get out of bed."
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12. Door to Craig Thies' sheep barn
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Thies, Sheep Farmer:
"Stress and depression and suicide in a farmer is part of it. You just hope that it isn't your part."
14. Thies entering his sheep barn
15. Thies feeding a newborn lamb
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16. Drone view of Worth planting corn on his family's farm
ANNOTATION: Suicide rates among male agricultural workers are about 2.5 times higher than the national average, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
17. Various of Worth filling his planter with corn seed
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) The Rev. Ann Zastrow, First Lutheran Church:
"The stress levels in rural areas are off the charts high. If you're farming crops you have the weather to deal with."
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19. Wide of Worth filling his planter with corn seed
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Worth, Crop Farmer:
"Normally we like to plant corn on the 15th to the 20th of April and now it is in May. Everybody is very anxious and nervous about getting it in."
21. Wide exterior of Worth driving his tractor, planting corn seed
22. A section of Worth's family farm fields
23. Worth climbing into his tractor
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24. SOUNDBITE (English) The Rev. Robert Moeller, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church:
"There's a little bit more of the pressure of feeling, it's all on me, I need, to need to handle this."
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25. Worth steering his tractor
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