Teenage Willie Nelson didn’t like picking cotton when he was growing up so he played in bands at local Texas dance halls instead. This doesn’t mean that he didn’t appreciate the value of the family ...

It wasn’t just us. Last month’s Farm Aid mega-concert in Minneapolis was a big and beautiful occasion for the performers, too ...

Farm Aid, the annual celebration of music and sustainable agriculture founded by Willie Nelson, turns 40 on Saturday. To mark the occasion, Willie and family will headline a bash at University of ...

Musician Bob Dylan, famously from Minnesota, has been added to the lineup for Farm Aid’s upcoming 40th anniversary show Sept. 20 at the University of Minnesota’s Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Farm Aid — the annual fundraising concerts launched by Willie Nelson,Neil Young and John Mellencamp during the farm crisis of the 1980s — celebrates its 40th anniversary on Saturday ...

Held annually to raise money and draw awareness to the headwinds noncorporate farmers face, this year’s concert was held amid a backdrop of a fresh crop of challenges. It was four decades ago that Bob ...

Eric Burton of the Grammy-nominated band Black Pumas performed solo at Farm Aid 40 on Sept. 20, 2025, at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The day-long concert is the first time the annual ...

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, the annual benefit concert for family farmers, is bringing its 40th anniversary show to Minnesota for the first time Saturday. A crowd watches Duluth bluegrass band Trampled by Turtles ...