Willie Nelson is 92 and Feeling Lucky

I grew up on a family farm that my family no longer farmed because making a living that way was too hard. So thank you for Farm Aid, and congratulations on 40 years. But is it frustrating that the mission of Farm Aid—to support small family farmers, to help them make it—only seems to get more difficult and urgent?

I got frustrated maybe 30 years ago, but I have gotten used to dealing with the people who don’t really care about the small family…