Here's a stat that should stop every dairy professional in their tracks: 81% of farmers who die by suicide never received any mental health treatment. Not most. Not many. Eighty-one percent. The clinical system isn't failing farmers at the margins — it's missing them almost entirely. This episode tells the story of Randy Roecker, a third-generation Wisconsin dairyman who fought depression for seven years, lost a neighbor to suicide, and then asked the question nobody in the industry was asking: what if the real first responders aren't therapists — they're the milk haulers, vets, and nutritionists already pulling into the driveway? What he built is changing how rural America thinks about farmer suicide prevention. And the data says your herd is already telling you when something's wrong.

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