“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 ...

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 ...

Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid is unlike any other festival. It has always been about more than the music. Launched by Nelson and fellow musicians in 1985 to respond to the economic crisis that was ...

July 13, 1985: At the end of the Live Aid mega-concert in Philadelphia, Bob Dylan suggests some of the famine-relief money should go to “our own farmers right here in America.” Willie Nelson was ...