Cool stuff, Garth. Farm Aid just celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2025, after holding their first benefit concert back on September 22, 1985 as a way to help American farmers. The idea came from ...
In Iowa and throughout the Midwest, even century-old farms weren’t spared from the struggles that came in the mid-1980s. Urbana-born, Rantoul-raised Dave Stawick was a news reporter/anchor and farm ...
Farm Aid was conceived after Bob Dylan made a famous statement at Live Aid a few months prior. Live Aid was a similar benefit concert that used proceeds to benefit charity. That concert, which was ...
Farm Aid 40 is Saturday, featuring Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and John Mellencamp. But there are many other artists in the all-star lineup. An annual fundraising event for America’s farmers, ...