WILLIE NELSON HAPPY TO BE AT FARM AID AFTER DRUG BUST

(VIDEO) Willie Nelson happy to be free and at Farm Aid…. and he talks about farming.

Willie Nelson was at the Farm Aid press conference before his set at the event in Camden, New Jersey on Saturday (September 30), and it was fortunate he was there. Nelson, now 73, has been doing the show for 21 years, but he was busted for drugs in Louisianna. A misdemeanor drug possesion was levied against Nelson and put the scare into him.

Nelson told members of the press that he truly was glad to be there.

“First of all thank you very much for being here. I’m glad to be here. I’m glad to be anywhere at this moment (laughs and applause), and Camden, New Jersey looks wonderful to me.”

Nelson then shared that this year’s event is not about saving family farms, but about the non-corporate farms saving us.

“Well, we started out trying to save the family farmer, now it looks like the family farmer is going to save us (applause). All this time, we’re 21 years old today, right Caroline. We are now…an adult, and legal. So thank you all for helping us try to get the word out that it’s important to let our family farmers and our local economies start everything and let everything build up from there. Not only organic food, but also biodiesel, ethanol, all these things can happen. You can have your cotton gin, and your cornshellers, your haybailers and right next to it have your biodiesel plants and your ethanol plants and your organic farming all around it. I think all this together will help build our economy.”

Contrary to preliminary reports, Nelson was not arrested. The officer on the scene said that they would have brought the music icon in under arrest but he said that the jails were just too full.

Meanwhile, Farm Aid, spearheaded and started by Nelson, raised 1.1 million dollars from ticket sales to the show.