Both Senator Amy Klobuchar and Representative Angie Craig criticized the Trump administration’s agriculture policies and said they were standing up for small, family farms during Farm Aid’s 40th-anniversary concert in Minneapolis. #FarmAid40 #FarmAid

🚜🎶The NSAC team had a blast at #FarmAid40 this year! Thank you Minneapolis for your hospitality and thank to you all of our friends, members, and partners for the collaboration and energy you bring to this work! #sustainableagriculture

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel returns, defiantly: “Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke…We have to speak out against this because he’s not stopping…He’s coming for our journalists, too…A govt threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American.”

Go, Jimmy Kimmel!

The #FarmAid40 Memorabilia Auction is open for bidding! Check out this exciting lot of rare and unique memorabilia items from the Farm Aid 40 festival and from our festival archives.

We had so much fun connecting with everyone at Farm Aid! Events like this are so important for growing our relationships and grounding us in our shared ideals. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table on Saturday, and if we missed you, you can always connect with us online!

What is happening

Well this game I turned on 5 minutes ago has taken a turn

So did the rapture happen yet? Asking for a friend. 👀

Vaccines are one of the greatest success stories in the history of public health — protecting children, saving millions of lives and ensuring healthier futures for generations. 10 facts that show that #VaccinesWork:

Farm Aid got me thinking about this article/interview with John Mellencamp from a few years ago. It’s pretty long but great. www.salon.com/2017/06/17/i...

The first annual Farm Aid event was held 40 years ago, on Sept. 22, 1985, in what is now Gies Memorial Stadium in Champaign. At the time, the U.S. was in a major agricultural crisis. Severe inflation and lessening exports caused family farmers across the country to lose their farms and homes.

"My Catholic faith compels me to urge you to leave the Endangerment Finding in place," wrote Patricia Sills-Trausch, a staff member at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.

As critical as I am of the CDC right now, I know many dedicated experts are still there. If we could hear their voices—not just political appointees—I’d feel differently. But the current messaging isn’t science-based, so I can’t trust the CDC or FDA at this time.

Being in a stadium again reminded us of that very first concert on September 22, 1985. #FarmAid40 Photo from the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 by Paul Natkin Photo from Farm Aid 40 by © Brian Bruner / Bruner Photo See more photos at

Today is Farm Aid's official 40th birthday! 🎂🎶🥰 Saturday night in Minneapolis was an incredible celebration! Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online and who tuned in via radio and TV.

Our farmers are losing out on a great soybean harvest because of Trump’s trade war. We have the best beans in the world, we need to sell them.

"More than a big-name fundraising concert…Farm Aid is a flag that waves: Help is available. And it’s needed today as much as it was 40 years ago.”

Bob Dylan at Farm Aid 🎶🤩 🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

No doubt, I got a little emotional for this amazing moment of Willie Nelson and his son Lukas doing an amazing duet of Just Breathe. So many highlights throughout the day. A gorgeous day all around and super grateful for the opportunity to be a part of Farm Aid 40, it felt very special.

Neil Young came out feisty with a new track. His current band, the Chrome Hearts, were strong and tight, know how to rock. 🤘🏽 My first time seeing Mr Neil Young. I was all smiles for his set.

The incomparable Willie Nelson, an absolute legend playing at the annual Farm Aid concert they he founded 40 years ago! The man is 92 and he didn’t go on until midnight…and played a full hour!

RITFW ♥️

Loved the Jack and Diane singalong and seeing John Mellencamp ❤️ FarmAid40

Man, Billy Strings 🔥 FarmAid40

Sierra Ferrell is going to be/should be a big star. FarmAid40

Nathaniel Rateliff was a blast. Whooooohohohoooh! FarmAid40

Amazing 12 hours at Farm Aid 40! TY @farmaid.org !! So many *incredible* performances, but Neil Young opening w Big Crime was top 🔥🔥

Enjoying #FarmAid40? Use today to make a difference and help save USDA. Take action now: farmaid.org/action-cente... Photo © Brian Bruner / Bruner Photo

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald between sets 👍

Waxahatchee performing at Farm Aid 🤩 🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

Farm Aid 40 Everyone! If you eat, you’re “into” agriculture. Support small and medium size farmers NOW! Thank you farmers, ranchers, artists, and all. Big shout out to Jesse Wells!

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We have failed this young man and an entire generation of young people who have been forced to endure the trauma of gun violence at their schools, time and time again. Text READY to 644-33 if you're ready to do something about it.

None of this is normal. Institutions are shuttering venues of dissent. The judiciary is being turned into a mechanism to harass Trump's political opponents. The media is silencing critics. And now the Senate is no longer going to do advice and consent. None of this is normal.

Three pediatric emergency physicians say a team of 50+ staff rallied to treat multiple victims within minutes, and they refuse to lose hope amid gun violence.

PROTECT KIDS, NOT GUNS!!!

Very interesting read about downsizing at the org that maintains the Dewey decimal system. This quote applies to many other domains as well.

Joe Biden is a lifelong Catholic who regularly attended church while Trump is the poster child for the Seven Deadly Sins who can’t even name which testament he prefers. No amount of sanctimonious bullshit will ever change that reality

“It’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Faith leaders also called for an assault weapons ban at a State Capitol news conference.

We must pray with our feet. We must take action. I’m ready.

Six-year-old David Haeg survived last week’s deadly mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. But his mother knows that her son has been profoundly reshaped by what he experienced after bullets shattered the peace of morning Mass.

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

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The impending healthcare disaster caused by RFK Jr. was entirely predictable. And Donald Trump and his enablers should bear the blame.