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, ...

Arlo Guthrie waits to perform at the first Farm Aid concert at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Sept. 22, 1985. Dancing in the rain at the first Farm Aid concert at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on ...

Since 1985, the festival has brought a simple message to the nation's struggling family farmers: you are not alone.

Challenges have combined in a storm that recalls the farm crisis four decades ago, which lead to the creation of the festival to support family farmers. By Thom Duffy Editor When Willie Nelson and ...

“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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Farm Aid marked its historic 40th anniversary today at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, celebrating a powerful movement born from what was ...