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This webinar presents on the recent publication, "Navigating Farm Stress: Traumatic and Resilient Dimensions of the Black Agrarian Frame", published in the Journal of Agromedicine. A tradition of rural sociological research highlights the frames that support farmers in understanding challenges to the farm and strategies to overcome them. To investigate the role that agrarian frames play in navigating farm stress, we conducted a thematic analysis using data from inter-views with 15 Black farmers from three Southern states. The results identify a Black Agrarian frame with two dimensions: traumatic and resilient. The traumatic dimension provides a system-blame narrative that highlights financial risk driven by institutions and racism as a core factor in farm stress. The resilient dimension describes collective action as a key coping strategy linked to understanding the farm as a multi-faceted asset. In conclusion, research on differentiated agrarian frames is an important component towards understanding how diverse populations navigate farm stress and the development of culturally appropriate resources for addressing it.