July 27, 2020 - The House and Senate recently passed the Seeding Rural Resilience Act included in the National Defense Authorization Act. The Seeding Rural Resilience Act was designed to help farmers respond to stress and decrease mental health care stigma in rural communities. The Act’s three initiatives would promote mental health by requiring the USDA to provide voluntary stress management training, create a public service announcement to increase public awareness of farm and ranch stress and destigmatize mental health care, and enhance collaboration among state, local, and non-governmental stakeholders to determine best practices for responding to stress.