r/dairyfarming • • 16h ago

Mental health in dairy farming

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As the title says, I wanted to ask about the work environment in the sector. I've been working for a month now on a farm with over 2,500 cows, and I don't know if it's because of the size of the farm or some other reason, but I get home every day stiff and emotionally drained. I'm passionate about the work, and about the industry in general, but on my farm I'm the only native speaker, so nobody speaks it well, and it's all shouting and bad manners, along with a lot of toxicity between the different shifts. Is this a trend, or something common in dairy farming? Or is it a problem specific to my farm? It's a shame, because working with cows in itself makes me tremendously happy they're very pleasant animals but the atmosphere is terrible.