Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land.
麥倫坎普也是農家援助義演（英语：Farm Aid）的創始成員之一，該組織始於1985年在伊利諾州的尚佩恩所舉辦的一場音樂會，旨在提高人們對失去家庭農場的認識，並籌集資金以保持農民家庭的土地。