This Saturday, the 40th annual Farm Aid concert will take place at the Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. It will feature artists that kicked off the original Farm Aid concert back in 1985 including Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp.

The concert fundraiser was a response to an economic crisis farmers faced across the U.S. during that time. The agricultural financial struggle of that period hit Minnesota’s workers hard.

University of Minnesota applied economics professor Marc Bellemare joined MPR News host Nina Moini to explain the history of the farm crisis and how it’s changed farming today.