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Farm Aid 2018 Press Event Highlights

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The press event kicked off Farm Aid's 2018 festival in Hartford, Connecticut, on September 22. It featured Farm Aid’s board artists (Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews), along with farmers, advocates and activists working in the region. In these highlights, they explain the challenges family farmers face, the benefits of family farm agriculture, and the promise that young farmers offer for our future.

Over the summer, Farm Aid staff members visited with featured farmers to film video spots that tell their stories in a compelling way and create a jumping off point for the press event conversation. Watch those videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNVdgfOEXnVpG40HRD3ARjeZpsVcdeeaa

The videos shown at the press event told the stories of urban farmers revitalizing their communities and empowering youth; nutrition incentive doubling programs that double the nutrition benefits low-income residents can spend on healthy food at farmers markets; orchard and produce growers keeping generational farms alive and thriving; and two dairy farming families—one that is diversifying to survive the current dairy crisis and one that has left the dairy business.

Farm Aid was started by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp in 1985 to keep family farmers on the land and has worked since then to make sure everyone has access to good food from family farmers. Dave Matthews joined Farm Aid's board of directors in 2001.

For more information about Farm Aid, visit: https://farmaid.org

Farm Aid's performances are donated by the artists in order to raise funds and raise awareness for family farmers. They've raised their voices to help — what can you do?
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