{"id":7501,"date":"2022-01-11T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2022-01-11T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:25:59","slug":"covid-brings-added-stress-to-disabled-maine-farmers-already-facing-winter-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2022\/01\/11\/covid-brings-added-stress-to-disabled-maine-farmers-already-facing-winter-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID brings added stress to disabled Maine farmers already facing winter challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsCenterMaine.com, written by Courtney Lanning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"7502\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7502 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"farm in idsitance during the winter\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-317x237.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-423x316.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-634x474.jpg 634w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-846x633.jpg 846w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-951x711.jpg 951w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-1268x948.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/01\/DSCN5850.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clay Hill Farm, Peru ME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Financial worries, unpredictable weather, and isolation make farming a tough job, but COVID brought a new layer of stress for Maine agriculture workers, especially if they&#8217;re disabled.&#8221; For farmers, fishers, forest workers, and other agriculture workers who face a barrier or disability in their profession, Maine AgrAbility provides recommendations and connections to resources that can help at no cost to worker throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/covid-brings-additional-stress-to-disabled-maine-farmers-already-facing-winter-challenges-pandemic-health\/97-78c5c1ea-92da-4f9b-b592-e90557668b14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covid Brings Additional Stress to Disabled Maine Farmerslready-facing-winter-challenges-pandemic-health\/97-78c5c1ea-92da-4f9b-b592-e90557668b14<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article__headline\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsCenterMaine.com, written by Courtney Lanning. &#8220;Financial worries, unpredictable weather, and isolation make farming a tough job, but COVID brought a new layer of stress for Maine agriculture workers, especially if they&#8217;re disabled.&#8221; For farmers, fishers, forest workers, and other agriculture workers who face a barrier or disability in their profession, Maine AgrAbility provides recommendations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"News about AgrAbility","parent":0,"count":258,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":258,"category_description":"News about AgrAbility","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}