Overview

• The 40th-anniversary concert took place at Huntington Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.
• CNN aired the evening program nationwide for the first time in Farm Aid’s history, with free streaming on CNN.com and the CNN apps beginning at 7 p.m. ET.
• Free daylong coverage also streamed on FarmAid.org and YouTube, with additional video on Nugs and audio on SiriusXM’s Willie’s Roadhouse and Dave Matthews Band Radio.
• Founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp performed alongside Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, Margo Price, Kenny Chesney, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and others.
• Farm Aid noted raising roughly $85 million since 1985 and underscored current pressures on family farms, while a local labor strike earlier in the week briefly put the show at risk before it proceeded as planned.