KEO, Ark. — On Saturday, a benefit concert will take place in Keo, Arkansas, to raise money to help improve farmers’ mental health during challenging economic times.

Whitney Isbell-Jones is a farmer in Lonoke County who said it’s not just farmers who have been struggling.

“We're not special in these times, if that makes sense,” Isbell-Jones said.

But the sixth-generation family farmer explained how farmers have also been struggling with higher costs and farm closures.

It can affect them mentally, which Isbell-Jones said is something they often don’t want to admit.

“You pull yourself up from your bootstraps, and you just keep going,” Isbell-Jones said. “And so, it's hard, I think, for the farming culture to even admit that there is a mental stress that we have.”

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