Willie Nelson launched the festival in 1985 to save family farms. Amid corporate consolidation, it’s now a platform for ...
It was four decades ago that Bob Dylan took the stage and mused about the need to support American farmers. “I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in Africa,” he said during a ...
“It was the biggest country music concert in history,” the Tribune wrote the day after the first Farm Aid on Sept. 22, 1985. “For more than 14 hours Memorial Stadium on the University of Illinois ...
Saturday’s star-studded concert will air on TV for the first time in years as the hotline for farmers gets more calls about a mix of complicated problems. By Kevin Draper There was never supposed to ...