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And Finally
Willie Nelson celebrated by the farmers
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 25 July 2011
Willie Nelson has scored a special honour. He is about to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame. What’s special about that, you ask? Well, it’s the Agricultural Hall Of Fame. The country star is being recognised for his support of American’s Farm Aid movement, which he helped found in 1985.
Says Willie: “I am extremely honoured and humbled to join the company of the 38 prominent inductees already in the Agricultural Hall Of Fame. 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”.
Nelson will join such luminaries as Thomas Jefferson and Isaac Newton in the Kansas-based Agricultural Hall Of Fame.