Bob Worth Wants to Remind Farmers Help is a Phone Call Away

Bob Worth grew up on the same Minnesota farm he farms today, 55 years later and at the age of 73. The farm’s 480 acres have been in his family since 1955, and through every high and low, the farm has remained a symbol of persistence and generational resilience. Bob began farming alongside his father as a young boy, returned to the land after National Guard training, and eventually took over the operation in 1981. His son later joined him, and for a time it was all three generations working together. Worth Farms grows corn and soy on the farmstead acreage, in addition to up to 2,100 rented acres in and around Lake Benton, in the southwest corner of Minnesota.

What draws many people to Bob’s story is not exclusively the crops he grows or the acres he tends, but rather his impactful work in mental health advocacy. Resilience in farm life is not only continuing through financial hardships and burdens, but also keeping safe and healthy during the dark and often invisible crises that farmers quietly face.