AGRICULTURAL NEWS - I wrote then that the study indicated the suicide rate among people engaged in agriculture was the highest among 30 national standard occupational classification groups at 84,5 per 100 000 persons in 2012.
However, as Clayton also points out in his column, it turns out the CDC got it wrong, as did I and all the other journalists who, based on the findings of this report, wrote about the high rate of suicide amongst farmers.
The mistake that the CDC made, and that we all then copied, was to conclude that the high suicide rate “among people engaged in agriculture” referred to farmers.
However, it now appears that this high suicide rate is among farmworkers.
