Shake It for Me Girls: Minnesota Dairy Farm a Luke Bryan Farm Tour Stop

While the cows seem less fazed with a big-name country star holding a concert in their backyard, Gar-Line Dairy Farm is thrilled. The four-generation family-owned dairy farm is a 2022 Farm Tour stop for the Sept. 24 Luke Bryan concert in Eyota, Minn.

“We’re hoping it sells out fast,” Dana Allen-Tully, one of the owners at Gar-Lin Dairy Farm, says.

Gar-Lin Dairy milks 1,850 cows and farms 3,100 acres in southeast Minnesota. While the dairy has opened its barn doors in the past to visitors, the Farm Tour stop is likely to be their biggest event ever, with upwards of 20,000 fans attending.

Although Allen-Tully is excited by the fact Luke Bryan will be on her farm, she says it’s not about her or her farm. “This will bring business to our local community that we’ve been a part of for generations,” she says. “It’s more about that than it is about the rest of it.”

For many dairy farmers who host tours such as Breakfast on the Farm or other similar events, the prep work is ginormous. This isn’t the case for this big-name event. Gar-Lin Dairy Farm is renting out its field to the Farm Tour. Gar-Lin Dairy Farm owners and staff get to sit back and enjoy the concert and leave the set-up, take-down and coordination of this event to the Farm Tour event staff.

Allen-Tully said it has been a tough secret to keep, as the family has known about this Farm Tour event since last fall when the organization called her asking to add southeast Minnesota to the tour list for 2022.

“We are proud to be the last stop on the 2022 Luke Bryan Farm Tour,” Allen-Tully says. “It is exciting he has made it a priority to highlight the American farmer, production agriculture and rural communities.”

The entire Eyota community is equally excited, along with the Land of 10,000 Lakes State. This is the first time Bryan is stopping in Minnesota on his Farm Tour concert.

Bryan shared on his Facebook page, “#FarmTour is back! All year long, I look forward to playing small towns while lifting up the American farmer.”

Bayer is once again sponsoring the Farm Tour to "help celebrate America’s farmers and fight hunger through its #HerestotheFarmer campaign."

Tickets go on sale this Thursday, May 5. Allen-Tully hopes the concert sells out.