Emily Southard and Florence Becot publish article Journal of Agromedicine
Emily Southard, PhD Candidate, Rural Sociology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and Florence Becot, Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor Agricultural Safety and Health Program Lead at Pennsylvania State University, recently published an article in the Journal of Agromedicine titled “Caregiving Along the Life Course Among Farming Households.” The study used publicly available survey of 704 farming caregivers in the U.S. Northeast and Midwest to understand the nature of caregiving in this population. They found that caregiving has a variety of impacts based on sociodemographic characteristics, and emphasized that they add to the growing scholarship challenging stereotypes that farming communities are socially tight-knit, self-sufficient, and do not want help.