Will the new department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs force unrealistic ideas on the farming community or will they use this crisis for good and help with the restructuring that this industry desperately needs all the way up the food chain?

BBC: Farmer's Diary: What now?

To be sure, some mental health innovation can also be found in parts of the U.S. Project ECHO, partly funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, is using telephone and Internet technology to link specialists at the University of New Mexico with primary care doctors, community health workers, and health educators in rural parts of the state.

CNN: America has to tackle its suicide problem