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Farm Aid concerts are held in different cities of America once in a year. It is held to promote the agriculture business in America and also to raise funds for the family farmers. The concerts were started to preserve farming as well as the farmers in America as more and more families all over America were abandoning farming and starting other businesses due to financial issues. The concerts have helped drastically to support the farming families in America.
The concerts have always featured popular and all-time favorite artists. The artists perform to contribute for a good cause especially for their motherland. The audience also enjoys good music and through this process they help and support the farming families. The farming families also attend the concerts and get a change from their routine, everyday tasks and hum and dance to the beats of music.

Farm Aid was started in 1985 and is organized by Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. The first concert held in September, 1985 was a great success. It was attended by more than 80,000 people. It was held in the ‘Memorial Stadium’ of University of Illinois , Champaign . More than $9 million were collected for the family farmers. The prominent performers of the initial concert were B.B King, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Billy Joel besides the founding members. Last year, they celebrated their 25 th Anniversary. They have done a lot of work to support the farming families of America especially during the recession period. It has also helped the farmers during the natural disasters in America and also the farmers burdened by debts and mortgage. The music played in the concerts usually includes rock, blues and country music. They also help to get the farmers opportunity to sell their home grown food to the people.
The concerts of Farm Aid are a major annual event in America. The farmers and the people of the chosen city become very enthusiastic and start looking forward towards the big day. Farm Aid has contributed the cause of family farming in America keeping in view all the aspects. After the initial concert in 1985 they raised the problems of family farmers in America in front of the Congress. They brought forward the farmers in the Congress for the testimony of their problems. As a result Agricultural Credits Act was passed by Congress in 1987. Now Farm Aid is a proper organization. They have developed hotlines for any emergency situation faced by farm associations or farmers. They also hold a disaster fund which helps the farmers in case of disasters. During Hurricane Katrina and 2011 Tornedoes several farmers were helped by the organization.
The concert of Farm Aid is performed in different cities of America every year. This year the concert will be held in Live Strong, Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas on 13 th August, 2011. Keeping up with the tradition many famous artists will be performing in the concert. Some of the names include Jacob Dylan, Jason Mraz, Robert Francis, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jamey Johnson, John Trudell, Will Dailey & the Rivals, Billy Joe Shaver, Lucas Nelson and Promise of the real .
Like always the concert will begin the noon and will end late in the night. Besides the music, the event features home grown food in the categories of local, family farm sourced and organic ingredients. The event will also showcase the “homegrown village” where you can learn about farming and where your food comes from. The attendees of the concert usually take nonperishable food items with them also which the organization distributes among the needy people of the city. One of the founding members Neil Young also briefs about the condition of farming in America and it is one of the highlights of the event.

Farm Aid has come a long way of providing good music, good food and sustain the American farmers for more than 25 years now. Purchase Farm Aid Tickets now to enjoy all these in a single day.

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.
(Dylan said, “I hope that some of the money…maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe…one or two million, maybe…and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks….”) Nelson and Mellencamp then brought family farmers before Congress to testify about the state of family farming in America. Congress subsequently passed the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to help save family farms from foreclosure.