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Farm Aid

Farm Aid started as a benefit concert on September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, held to raise money for family farmers in the United States. The concert was organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt. Wikipedia*

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Farm Aid has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1995 Meeting.

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    Farm Aid Town Meeting

    Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and others talked about the future of U.S. farming and the 1995 Farm Bill. The Congression…

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