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Willie Nelson is the president of Farm Aid. For 25 years, Farm Aid has worked to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews host an annual concert to raise funds to support Farm Aid’s work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $37 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.

Blog Entries by Willie Nelson

Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply

(673) Comments | Posted February 24, 2012 | 11:04 AM

Our food is under threat. It is felt by every family farmer who has lost their land and livelihood, every parent who can't find affordable or healthy ingredients in their neighborhood, every person worried about foodborne illnesses thanks to lobbyist-weakened food safety laws, every farmworker who faces toxic pesticides in...

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Occupy the Food System

(1,209) Comments | Posted December 17, 2011 | 9:39 AM

Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there's a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the great majority of us. It's not just in the financial sector, but in all facets of our lives. The disparity between the top 1 percent and everyone else has been laid...

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This Land Is Our Land

(201) Comments | Posted September 10, 2011 | 11:59 PM

The attacks of September 11, 2001, occurred just a few weeks before Farm Aid's annual concert. In the midst of our fear, mourning and uncertainty, the organizers of Farm Aid had to make a difficult choice. Farm Aid 2001 was scheduled for September 29 -- could we proceed with it...

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Shirley Sherrod, a Family Farmer's Friend

(682) Comments | Posted July 21, 2010 | 5:26 PM

Shirley Sherrod has been a great friend to me, Farm Aid and family farmers for 25 years. She has always worked to improve economic opportunities for family farmers in the South, going back to when I first met her as the director of the Georgia Field Office for the

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