For the 40th Farm Aid benefit concert, organizers are bringing the event to a state for the first time.
Farm Aid 2025 will take place on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the University of Minnesota’s Huntington Bank Stadium.
“Family farmers are the heart of this country, and we depend on each other for good food and strong communities,” country singer Willie Nelson, a Farm Aid founder, said in a May 13 statement.
The concert helps kick off a year-long celebration of 40 years of Farm Aid.
Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young started Farm Aid in 1985 to support American farmers at risk of losing their farms because of financial troubles.
The first concert took place on Sept. 22, 1985, at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill., and raised more than $9 million (approximately $26 million today).