August 27, 2025 • 17 mins
For 40 years, Farm Aid has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with family farmers, ensuring they can stay on their land and thrive despite corporate pressures, bad policies, and climate challenges. In this episode of American Family Farmer, host Doug Stephan welcomes Jennifer Fahy, Co-Executive Director and longtime Communications Director of Farm Aid.
Jennifer shares how Farm Aid began as a one-day benefit concert in 1985 — founded by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp — and has since grown into a powerful nonprofit movement raising over $60 million to keep family farmers farming. We dive into the upcoming Farm Aid 40 festival in Minneapolis, the importance of Homegrown Concessions® and Homegrown Village, and the ongoing fight for a fair and sustainable food system.
🎶 Plus, get the inside scoop on this year’s incredible lineup, from Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews to Wynonna Judd, Kenny Chesney, and more.
👉 Learn more at FarmAid.org.
Website: AmericanFamilyFarmerShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
Jennifer shares how Farm Aid began as a one-day benefit concert in 1985 — founded by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp — and has since grown into a powerful nonprofit movement raising over $60 million to keep family farmers farming. We dive into the upcoming Farm Aid 40 festival in Minneapolis, the importance of Homegrown Concessions® and Homegrown Village, and the ongoing fight for a fair and sustainable food system.
🎶 Plus, get the inside scoop on this year’s incredible lineup, from Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews to Wynonna Judd, Kenny Chesney, and more.
👉 Learn more at FarmAid.org.
Website: AmericanFamilyFarmerShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
The Safe proven Way to lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. This is
the American Family Farmer. We're going to be talking about
the twenty twenty five Farm Aid program. Jennifer Fahe she's
the co executive director for farm Aid, which takes place
(00:24):
the fortieth takes place in Minneapolis this year on the
twentieth of September. And it's always good stuff last all
day and all night and all weekend, and so it's
so good for everybody. It's the farming business in America
is just not what it ought to be and the
(00:45):
help that comes from the people to put this all together. So, Jennifer,
how many times actually have I talked to you? How
long have you been doing this?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I've been doing it for twenty three year? Okay maybe twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, twenty three years of doing this, So
I think I asked you this. I don't remember last time.
Every year at this time I like to promote farm
Aid because it is so important for America's family farmers
and this program is all about that. But when I
do it, was doing a Good Day program. I remember
a couple of times we would have you on and
(01:21):
some of the other people that were participating in farm Aid,
because I do think no matter how sophisticated, if that's
the right word, it may not be we get as Americans,
it can still kind of identify what the problem is,
what the issues are, what needs to be done by
paying attention to farm Aid. So those of you who
(01:44):
want to get close, up close and personal, farmaid dot
org as the place where you can find all of
the information that goes with this year's fortieth anniversary. So
over the twenty three years you've been doing this, Jennifer,
what stands out most in your mind? We're regarding the
success and maybe some of the people that you've met
(02:05):
along the way that the farm Maide funds have helped.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's a great question, and it's timely because I just
came back from an eight d trip. I drove across
the entire state of Minnesota interviewing farmers with a film crew,
and then straight from Minnesota, I went to Missouri to
mark the fortieth anniversary of one of our closest partner organizations.
They're called Missouri Rural Crisis Center. And if you've come
(02:32):
to a Farm Aid concert, you may know that they
have a sister organization called Patchwork Family Farms. So they
started in nineteen eight the early nineteen eighties to fight
the farm crisis and to fight farm foreclosures, and they
were hog farmers. And shortly after the eighties they saw
(02:54):
an influx of confined animal feeding operations in Missouri, corporate
owned hop farms that drove the price of pork that
they were receiving two pennies a pound, and they really said,
you know what, we can't just fight this. We also
have to have the solution. And the solution is pork
(03:17):
raised by independent family farms, not in cages, not in
giant facilities that are polluting our rural communities, but by
people who care about the animals and care about the land.
We talked to a lot of people who had lived
through the farm crisis, some of whom lost their farms.
And we also talked with young farmers who are saying,
(03:39):
you know, we saw what our parents went through and
it's starting to feel that way again. And they talked
about the new challenges they have.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
All right, let's talk about those as we continue here.
Jennifer fahe the co executive director of Farm Aiders with us,
we're talking about this year's event in Minneapolis. Stand By,
I'm Doug Stephan and she's not. She could be Elizabeth Miller. However,
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Speaker 1 (04:51):
Elizabeth Miller from the folks at Caldtrin. Thanks Elizabeth back
on the American Family Farmer, and so the essence of
how they got into this, I don't know. Willie's owned
a ranch. I don't know that much about Neil Young.
I interviewed him a couple of times and I found
(05:13):
it to be quite a curmudgeon, but the interesting character
in his own right. But what's the connection with Mellencamp
and farms other than him performing? Is there some family connection?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So originally, when Willie was pulling together the first Farm
Aid concert in nineteen eighty five, somebody said, you've got
to reach out to John Mellencamp. He has a new
album and he has multiple songs on that album that
are about the farm crisis and what's happening to rural America.
So John signed on immediately and became a co founder.
(05:50):
And rain on the Scarecrow is one of those songs,
and he plays it every year and it just brings
the house down, and it's about the farm crisis. The
crosses that were put up in his home state of Indiana,
one cross for every farm lost, and thousands and thousands
of crosses in this field, do you and.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The members of the troop ever feel discouraged because we
seem to be We have the same theme. There is money.
There have been tens of millions of dollars they've been raised.
They help farmers, and we'll talk about how they apply
for that sort of help in a matter of moments.
But I think when I look at this and what
I've seen in my life on the farm, around the cows,
(06:34):
around the equipment, around people's attitude toward farming and what
they don't know. The younger they are, the more ignorant
they seem to be, and it is frustrating and it's sad,
and it makes me angry actually. I mean, you look
around the political realities of the talk about farm bills
and what should be in them and how much help
the farmers need, and it doesn't seem to make any
(06:57):
sense to me. I see agriculture in other countries Western
Europe and how much more Well, it's an awkward sentence,
but as much being a farmer is better accepted than
it is here, and we've gotten so far away from it.
The source of food, and so you talked to the
(07:18):
beginning about the difference between the food that we really
can appreciate because it's food's medicine and what it's all about,
and the big companies that are buying up the Chinese especially,
and how that has all sort of played out. I'm
kind of surprised that Trump, We've gone after all of
(07:39):
these countries for what they are doing, hasn't said to
the Chinese, Okay, we don't want you running a pork
factories anymore, so we'll buy you out and get out.
That seems to be a style. But yeah, I don't
want to go on drone on about the situation. I
just find it frustrating for my own circumstance how difficult
(07:59):
it is to make things work.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, yeah, well you are not alone. Our board members
have been frustrated over the years. You know, they've often said,
we we don't want to be here, we don't want
to have to do this every year. But the reality is,
you know, in my opinion, we do want to bring
people together to appreciate farmers every year, because, as you said,
(08:23):
you know, in this country we don't think about them
as much. We don't appreciate them for all the things
they do, from bringing food to our tables to caring
for our soil and water and preserving open space and
making it possible for us to go pick apples in
the fall and appreciate a beautiful view and go hunting,
because they're very involved in conserving our bird populations, our
(08:45):
pollinator populations. I mean, we need farmers more than most
people know. I had a conversation the other day with
a friend who said, well, in my life, food comes
from the grocery store. I don't think beyond that. And
that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It is right that, more than anything in COVID when
you would talk to youngsters, especially about where the milk
came from, or where their veggies came from, wherever, Oh,
they come from the grocery store. So when they went
to the grocery store with their parents to shop and
found there were no groceries, and then somebody realized, or
a bunch of people who are hold a bunch of
us realized that it was the farm that we had
(09:20):
to go to. We had to have a relationship with
the local farmer to get food. Some of the attitudes changed,
but not enough of it, so they did.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
One of the big things that changed during that time
was actually the federal government stepping up to support the
production of local food and then the distribution of local
food to local communities. And unfortunately with the new administration,
they immediately came in and canceled those programs.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, they keep talking about how much they're helping.
They keep talking about how much they're helping the farmers.
I don't see it yet. To hear a lot of talk,
but I don't see and I don't want to get
into the politics say that. We do want to talk
about who's in the lineup, because other than the four founders,
we have an undred. See Kenny Chesney is on the
bill of fare and one of my favorites why Nonah Judd?
(10:08):
So who else? How is it decided each year who
will be the performers other than the main four.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, often we hear from the artists who call us
and say I want to play, and in particular that
happened this year because it is our fortieth anniversary, it's
a bigger show than usual. Additionally, our artists go out
and make invitations to folks. So Billy Strings is one
of those who was invited by Willie Nelson and he'll
(10:35):
be joining us for the first time. An incredible artist
grew up in Michigan but became a bluegrass musician and
is just a phenom phenom. Nathaniel Rayliffe and the Night Sweats,
they are a loyal farm At supporter. Gosh, I don't
know how many years they've been on our bill, but
they come back every year. And they're originally the lead
(10:56):
singer Nathaniel and his best buddy and the band Joseph.
They come from Missouri and they're big supporters of that
organization I mentioned Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Trampled by Turtles.
They're new to us this year and they're from Minnesota.
They're up in Duluth, and we're really excited to have
them on the bill. Whynona, as you mentioned, Steve Earle,
longtime supporter, called us up and said I've got to
(11:19):
be there this year. I can't miss it. Waxahatchie new
to us. Incredible band from Kansas. Eric Burton, he's with
the Black Pumas. He played our virtual show in twenty
twenty when none of us could get together.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And we did a great remember are you old enough
to remember Eric Burton? It wasn't Burton who was burden
from the Animals. Do you remember him.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No, I know the animals, but I don't know him
in particular.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He was the lead singer. Yeah, all right, all right.
So anyway, you've got a good group of people who
will be there to entertain from the doors open at
noontime and the music will late into the evening, and
so it's a worthwhile trip. I think that the people,
if they go to farm aid dot org can find
(12:02):
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executor dictor of farm Aid, is well, this we're talking
about this year's event in Minneapolis. This is pretty good
size venue here Huntington Banks Stadium, so lots of people
(14:09):
be able to take advantage of all the entertainment to
the tickets, as I say, available at farm aid dot org. Also,
if you are somebody who's listening to this and you
have a word crisis, I think is overused. But the
situation that exists, the bad realities that exist among our farmers,
there's probably not a group in the world, Jennifer, that
(14:32):
are so dedicated. You grow up on the farm, you're
around the farm, you want to stay there no matter what,
and people stay there against all odds.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And so.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If people need a hand, do they call the eight
hundred farm Aid number? How do people get support from
the monies that are raised?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yep, exactly. We've been operating a hotline one eight hundred
farm Aid since nineteen eighty five, and farmers call every day.
A lot of them are calling, thankfully, with questions about
how to you know, how to begin farming, how to
access land, how to access financing. But we are also
(15:12):
you know, there to hear from farmers who are stressed
and worried. And a lot of farmers are in that
position right now with the crop prices the way they
are and the input prices as high as they are
many farmers. You know, I just spent the week with
a lot of farmers doing corn or soy across the
state of Minnesota, and they're losing one hundred dollars an acre,
(15:34):
and that's hard times and there's no solutions coming out
on the policy side. And so our hotline is answered
by folks who are who've been farmers themselves or currently farmers,
know what farmers are experiencing and can hear them and
connect them to resources, whether it's financial, legal, mental health support.
(15:54):
We're there to listen and to help them make connections
to get the support they need.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's the big PLUSU. Also, you have a new podcast
I see called Against the Grain, and so is this
something you try to do every week? How often do
you do it? And what are people here when they
go to a grant. I'm guessing it's Against the Grain
where we get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yes, yep, that'll do it. And yeah, we're in our
second season now. We're releasing an episode a week in
this season. You know, the first the first season was
diving in. We have this incredible archive of content and
answers to interview artists and farmers around the festival every year.
So this this season that we're in currently is focusing
(16:40):
on artists and activism. More than two dozen artists who
are using their stage and their microphone and their art
to raise their voices for comproms.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, you know what, the thing that I would like
to underscore as we run out of time here is
the fight against factory farms. That really is what, in
my mind is the most important part of farm Aid.
So something you can read when you go online to
farmaid dot org. Get some tickets there. Jennifer Fay he
(17:13):
always a pleasure, Co executive director of farm Aid. Here
on the American Family Farmer.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Please visit bobksound dot com. The American Family Farmer podcast
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The American Family Farmer podcast, sponsored in part by Caldron,
The Safe proven Way to lose weight. Check it all
out at toploss dot com. I'm Doug Stephan. This is
the American Family Farmer. We're going to be talking about
the twenty twenty five Farm Aid program. Jennifer Fahe she's
the co executive director for farm Aid, which takes place
(00:24):
the fortieth takes place in Minneapolis this year on the
twentieth of September. And it's always good stuff last all
day and all night and all weekend, and so it's
so good for everybody. It's the farming business in America
is just not what it ought to be and the
(00:45):
help that comes from the people to put this all together. So, Jennifer,
how many times actually have I talked to you? How
long have you been doing this?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I've been doing it for twenty three year? Okay maybe twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, twenty three years of doing this, So
I think I asked you this. I don't remember last time.
Every year at this time I like to promote farm
Aid because it is so important for America's family farmers
and this program is all about that. But when I
do it, was doing a Good Day program. I remember
a couple of times we would have you on and
(01:21):
some of the other people that were participating in farm Aid,
because I do think no matter how sophisticated, if that's
the right word, it may not be we get as Americans,
it can still kind of identify what the problem is,
what the issues are, what needs to be done by
paying attention to farm Aid. So those of you who
(01:44):
want to get close, up close and personal, farmaid dot
org as the place where you can find all of
the information that goes with this year's fortieth anniversary. So
over the twenty three years you've been doing this, Jennifer,
what stands out most in your mind? We're regarding the
success and maybe some of the people that you've met
(02:05):
along the way that the farm Maide funds have helped.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's a great question, and it's timely because I just
came back from an eight d trip. I drove across
the entire state of Minnesota interviewing farmers with a film crew,
and then straight from Minnesota, I went to Missouri to
mark the fortieth anniversary of one of our closest partner organizations.
They're called Missouri Rural Crisis Center. And if you've come
(02:32):
to a Farm Aid concert, you may know that they
have a sister organization called Patchwork Family Farms. So they
started in nineteen eight the early nineteen eighties to fight
the farm crisis and to fight farm foreclosures, and they
were hog farmers. And shortly after the eighties they saw
(02:54):
an influx of confined animal feeding operations in Missouri, corporate
owned hop farms that drove the price of pork that
they were receiving two pennies a pound, and they really said,
you know what, we can't just fight this. We also
have to have the solution. And the solution is pork
(03:17):
raised by independent family farms, not in cages, not in
giant facilities that are polluting our rural communities, but by
people who care about the animals and care about the land.
We talked to a lot of people who had lived
through the farm crisis, some of whom lost their farms.
And we also talked with young farmers who are saying,
(03:39):
you know, we saw what our parents went through and
it's starting to feel that way again. And they talked
about the new challenges they have.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
All right, let's talk about those as we continue here.
Jennifer fahe the co executive director of Farm Aiders with us,
we're talking about this year's event in Minneapolis. Stand By,
I'm Doug Stephan and she's not. She could be Elizabeth Miller. However,
as a matter of fact, she is. Elizabeth Miller. Is
one of the great reasons for going to toploss dot
(04:08):
com and engaging in the work of caltrin getting that
weight off the natural way.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Caltrin is different than everything else up there because it's
really good for you. It's actually drug free, stimulant free,
so it's good for you. We've been helping customers since
nineteen ninety seven. That's over two hundred thousand happy customers,
so I know that we just helped people all over
the United States lose weight. So if you go to
toploss dot com, you'll see the Caldron sell right there.
(04:34):
But we do also, like Dougs, had put together custom packages.
Usually they're available by email or our Facebook page, or
you can call us and we'll put together something custom
for you that will also have some special pricing on there.
And then of course Doug has a promo code. If
you use the promo code Doug, that's going to save
you on shipping on all orders.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Elizabeth Miller from the folks at Caldtrin. Thanks Elizabeth back
on the American Family Farmer, and so the essence of
how they got into this, I don't know. Willie's owned
a ranch. I don't know that much about Neil Young.
I interviewed him a couple of times and I found
(05:13):
it to be quite a curmudgeon, but the interesting character
in his own right. But what's the connection with Mellencamp
and farms other than him performing? Is there some family connection?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So originally, when Willie was pulling together the first Farm
Aid concert in nineteen eighty five, somebody said, you've got
to reach out to John Mellencamp. He has a new
album and he has multiple songs on that album that
are about the farm crisis and what's happening to rural America.
So John signed on immediately and became a co founder.
(05:50):
And rain on the Scarecrow is one of those songs,
and he plays it every year and it just brings
the house down, and it's about the farm crisis. The
crosses that were put up in his home state of Indiana,
one cross for every farm lost, and thousands and thousands
of crosses in this field, do you and.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The members of the troop ever feel discouraged because we
seem to be We have the same theme. There is money.
There have been tens of millions of dollars they've been raised.
They help farmers, and we'll talk about how they apply
for that sort of help in a matter of moments.
But I think when I look at this and what
I've seen in my life on the farm, around the cows,
(06:34):
around the equipment, around people's attitude toward farming and what
they don't know. The younger they are, the more ignorant
they seem to be, and it is frustrating and it's sad,
and it makes me angry actually. I mean, you look
around the political realities of the talk about farm bills
and what should be in them and how much help
the farmers need, and it doesn't seem to make any
(06:57):
sense to me. I see agriculture in other countries Western
Europe and how much more Well, it's an awkward sentence,
but as much being a farmer is better accepted than
it is here, and we've gotten so far away from it.
The source of food, and so you talked to the
(07:18):
beginning about the difference between the food that we really
can appreciate because it's food's medicine and what it's all about,
and the big companies that are buying up the Chinese especially,
and how that has all sort of played out. I'm
kind of surprised that Trump, We've gone after all of
(07:39):
these countries for what they are doing, hasn't said to
the Chinese, Okay, we don't want you running a pork
factories anymore, so we'll buy you out and get out.
That seems to be a style. But yeah, I don't
want to go on drone on about the situation. I
just find it frustrating for my own circumstance how difficult
(07:59):
it is to make things work.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, yeah, well you are not alone. Our board members
have been frustrated over the years. You know, they've often said,
we we don't want to be here, we don't want
to have to do this every year. But the reality is,
you know, in my opinion, we do want to bring
people together to appreciate farmers every year, because, as you said,
(08:23):
you know, in this country we don't think about them
as much. We don't appreciate them for all the things
they do, from bringing food to our tables to caring
for our soil and water and preserving open space and
making it possible for us to go pick apples in
the fall and appreciate a beautiful view and go hunting,
because they're very involved in conserving our bird populations, our
(08:45):
pollinator populations. I mean, we need farmers more than most
people know. I had a conversation the other day with
a friend who said, well, in my life, food comes
from the grocery store. I don't think beyond that. And
that's the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It is right that, more than anything in COVID when
you would talk to youngsters, especially about where the milk
came from, or where their veggies came from, wherever, Oh,
they come from the grocery store. So when they went
to the grocery store with their parents to shop and
found there were no groceries, and then somebody realized, or
a bunch of people who are hold a bunch of
us realized that it was the farm that we had
(09:20):
to go to. We had to have a relationship with
the local farmer to get food. Some of the attitudes changed,
but not enough of it, so they did.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
One of the big things that changed during that time
was actually the federal government stepping up to support the
production of local food and then the distribution of local
food to local communities. And unfortunately with the new administration,
they immediately came in and canceled those programs.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, they keep talking about how much they're helping.
They keep talking about how much they're helping the farmers.
I don't see it yet. To hear a lot of talk,
but I don't see and I don't want to get
into the politics say that. We do want to talk
about who's in the lineup, because other than the four founders,
we have an undred. See Kenny Chesney is on the
bill of fare and one of my favorites why Nonah Judd?
(10:08):
So who else? How is it decided each year who
will be the performers other than the main four.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, often we hear from the artists who call us
and say I want to play, and in particular that
happened this year because it is our fortieth anniversary, it's
a bigger show than usual. Additionally, our artists go out
and make invitations to folks. So Billy Strings is one
of those who was invited by Willie Nelson and he'll
(10:35):
be joining us for the first time. An incredible artist
grew up in Michigan but became a bluegrass musician and
is just a phenom phenom. Nathaniel Rayliffe and the Night Sweats,
they are a loyal farm At supporter. Gosh, I don't
know how many years they've been on our bill, but
they come back every year. And they're originally the lead
(10:56):
singer Nathaniel and his best buddy and the band Joseph.
They come from Missouri and they're big supporters of that
organization I mentioned Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Trampled by Turtles.
They're new to us this year and they're from Minnesota.
They're up in Duluth, and we're really excited to have
them on the bill. Whynona, as you mentioned, Steve Earle,
longtime supporter, called us up and said I've got to
(11:19):
be there this year. I can't miss it. Waxahatchie new
to us. Incredible band from Kansas. Eric Burton, he's with
the Black Pumas. He played our virtual show in twenty
twenty when none of us could get together.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
And we did a great remember are you old enough
to remember Eric Burton? It wasn't Burton who was burden
from the Animals. Do you remember him.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
No, I know the animals, but I don't know him
in particular.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He was the lead singer. Yeah, all right, all right.
So anyway, you've got a good group of people who
will be there to entertain from the doors open at
noontime and the music will late into the evening, and
so it's a worthwhile trip. I think that the people,
if they go to farm aid dot org can find
(12:02):
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executor dictor of farm Aid, is well, this we're talking
about this year's event in Minneapolis. This is pretty good
size venue here Huntington Banks Stadium, so lots of people
(14:09):
be able to take advantage of all the entertainment to
the tickets, as I say, available at farm aid dot org. Also,
if you are somebody who's listening to this and you
have a word crisis, I think is overused. But the
situation that exists, the bad realities that exist among our farmers,
there's probably not a group in the world, Jennifer, that
(14:32):
are so dedicated. You grow up on the farm, you're
around the farm, you want to stay there no matter what,
and people stay there against all odds.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And so.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If people need a hand, do they call the eight
hundred farm Aid number? How do people get support from
the monies that are raised?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yep, exactly. We've been operating a hotline one eight hundred
farm Aid since nineteen eighty five, and farmers call every day.
A lot of them are calling, thankfully, with questions about
how to you know, how to begin farming, how to
access land, how to access financing. But we are also
(15:12):
you know, there to hear from farmers who are stressed
and worried. And a lot of farmers are in that
position right now with the crop prices the way they
are and the input prices as high as they are
many farmers. You know, I just spent the week with
a lot of farmers doing corn or soy across the
state of Minnesota, and they're losing one hundred dollars an acre,
(15:34):
and that's hard times and there's no solutions coming out
on the policy side. And so our hotline is answered
by folks who are who've been farmers themselves or currently farmers,
know what farmers are experiencing and can hear them and
connect them to resources, whether it's financial, legal, mental health support.
(15:54):
We're there to listen and to help them make connections
to get the support they need.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's the big PLUSU. Also, you have a new podcast
I see called Against the Grain, and so is this
something you try to do every week? How often do
you do it? And what are people here when they
go to a grant. I'm guessing it's Against the Grain
where we get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yes, yep, that'll do it. And yeah, we're in our
second season now. We're releasing an episode a week in
this season. You know, the first the first season was
diving in. We have this incredible archive of content and
answers to interview artists and farmers around the festival every year.
So this this season that we're in currently is focusing
(16:40):
on artists and activism. More than two dozen artists who
are using their stage and their microphone and their art
to raise their voices for comproms.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, you know what, the thing that I would like
to underscore as we run out of time here is
the fight against factory farms. That really is what, in
my mind is the most important part of farm Aid.
So something you can read when you go online to
farmaid dot org. Get some tickets there. Jennifer Fay he
(17:13):
always a pleasure, Co executive director of farm Aid. Here
on the American Family Farmer.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Please visit bobksound dot com. The American Family Farmer podcast
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