roecker: well, the thing of it is, too, i think that... woman: i went to my first meeting just out of curiosity and just to kind of learn more. i thought, "we have to have ourselves a..." we were struggling ourselves about making a change out of dairy farming. it just felt so unnormal to me to not get up and go to the barn right away. i just wanted to see what help there was available for us. once i found out the resources that are available to farmers, i just really felt a call like i can help other people learn about this. roecker: 800 suicide-prevention number, i had that magnetic sticker stuck all over the house, and when it comes right down to it, i don't think i'd ever call it. first of all, i always thought that basically they'd come and take you away and lock you up someplace, and you have that fear deep down that they're gonna commit you if you call that number. statz: because, like, with leon when we had to call, they took him away in the car, and he just looked at me. "i'm not a criminal. why do i have to be handcuffed and put i

my name is randy roecker, and i'm a third-generation farmer from loganville, wisconsin. we have about 300 people in my little community here. [cattle lowing] my parents are 81 and 82 years old. they farm every day. they start their morning at 3:30. my mom loves to mix feed, and she drives in the tractor, and she always likes working with the cows because, she said, "cows don't talk back to you." it's truly a family farm, and sometimes i really wonder. there has to be a better way of life out there someplace that you don't have these problems that you struggle with all the time. [cattle lowing] statz: my name is brenda statz. well, my farming was my main thing. it still is a lot of my life, but i do work full-time off my farm, also, so i probably milked here 30-plus years i milked in this barn, and i milked for my dad before that. i was, like, 12 when i started milking cows at his barn, so i've milked cows a long time, so-- [cattle lowing] and some of them, yeah, you get special cows. you get pets, and some of them, you're just like, "no. i don't want nothing to do with h