`A Lot of Pain` on the Land: What Willie Nelson`s Farm Aid Will Encounter in Wisconsin
(WorldNews Music)

When Willie Nelson and friends open the day-long Farm Aid concert at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis., on Saturday, they’ll be singing out for family farmers in a region wracked by the worst economic crisis in recent memory. “There’s a lot of people in a lot of pain, on big and small farms,” says Sarah Lloyd, a fourth-generation dairy farmer and an activist with the Wisconsin Farmers Union and Dairy Together. For five years now, says Lloyd, dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other states have seen the market price they receive for their milk plummet below what it costs to produce. Consumers lighten their coffee or add cheese to meals oblivious to the...