Texas News With Better Data And Community Ambassadors, Researchers Hope To Curb Farmer Suicides KWBU | By Jill Ament Published June 7, 2019 at 8:29 AM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio USDA NRCS Texas/Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) Suicide rates among rural farmers are among some of the highest in the country. Texas State University social work professor Erica Nason is trying to change that through data research.