Farm Aid 40 photos: Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and more hold benefit concert for U.S. farmers | NYGazet

Held annually to raise money and draw awareness to the headwinds noncorporate farmers face, this year’s concert was held amid a backdrop of a fresh crop of challenges.

It was four decades ago that Bob Dylan took the stage and mused about the need to support American farmers. “I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in Africa,” he said during a performance at Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert to ... [930 chars]