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3. Farmer in video referenced 80s when family farms were getting destroyed by high interest rates and low commodity prices
Thu Nov 20, 2025, 06:01 PM
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Last edited Thu Nov 20, 2025, 06:56 PM - Edit history (2)

Farm Aid was started by musicians Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Cougar Mellencamp in 1985. They organized the first concert to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to provide financial support to keep them from going bankrupt due to a farm crisis. That was 40 years ago. These guys were probably kids and young men working their family farms back then. And even more recently Trump screwed the farmers with tariffs in his last administration. How many times are they going to fall for the lies? Can't they see by now who has their back and who doesn't?

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