MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Financial struggles led Leon Statz to sell his 50 dairy cows, causing the third-generation farmer to become depressed.

Then land next to his 200-acre farm near Loganville went up for sale — land his late father had said he should buy. Statz, who didn't have the money, became hopeless.

On Oct. 8, the day the adjacent property hit the market; Statz killed himself on his farm. He was 57.

"He said, 'How am I going to afford this?'" Brenda Statz, his wife of 34 years, told the Wisconsin State Journal. "He would panic about everything when it got to finances."

Wisconsin, which h...