Willie Nelson to Join Agricultural Hall of Fame

Posted by Melanie Agee on 07/25/2011
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Willie Nelson is getting inducted into the Agricultural Hall Fame for founding Farm Aid in 1985 and working as the president. He will be honored the morning after the Farm Aid concert at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan., on Aug. 13. Farm Aid has raised more than $39 million to assist family farmers.

 
"I am extremely honored and humbled to join the company of the 38 prominent inductees already in the Agricultural Hall of Fame," says Nelson. "I have long said that family farmers are the backbone of our country. I never thought Farm Aid would need to be around as long as it has been, but we know our country needs family farmers, and Farm Aid will be here as long as family farmers need us. It's up to all of us to work together to keep family farmers growing."
 
Willie will be joining Thomas Jefferson, John Deere, Isaac Newton and Eli Whitney in the Hall of Fame.
 
Source: CMT.com