In times of injury, illness, or natural disaster, Farm Rescue can step in to help farmers and ranchers tackle the most pressing work to ensure the success of the season – and those to come. Our experience tells us it’s not easy to ask for help. Know your case will be treated with the care, dignity, and respect it deserves. Tell us where and when and what needs to be done, and we’ll take it from there.
Every successful season starts with successful planting. Farm Rescue’s team of volunteers can get seed in the ground.
Farm Rescue’s volunteers will help you make good on your commitments by helping cut and bale your crop.
When the season hangs in the balance, Farm Rescue volunteers can get your crops out of the field and off to market.
Farm Rescue’s volunteers will transport hay in times of natural disaster, such as wildfires, flooding, or extreme drought to help sustain your herd.
Farm Rescue offers livestock feeding assistance to ranch families unable to carry out this essential daily work.
Before you apply, it’s helpful to gather the following required documentation:
Additional information may be required upon receipt of application. Applications that are complete will receive priority consideration.
The application usually takes about 20-30 minutes to complete.
Your information will remain confidential. The only people who will see your application during the review process are the Farm Rescue Board of Directors and authorized employees.
The Farm Data Report is used to verify that you own or rent the farmland.
Be assured that Farm Rescue wants to help you. We have a wait list of volunteers who look forward to assisting a farmer in need. Our Board of Directors will review your case and make a determination whether we can provide assistance based on a variety of factors. (Location, weather, volunteer staffing levels, schedule, type of crop and other circumstances related to each individual case.)
This depends if it is planting, harvesting or haying. However, a team of volunteers usually consists of two to five people.
We make every effort to review your case within 24-48 hours of receiving your application for assistance at our office. Some cases may require an onsite visit by our staff or Board of Directors prior to making a final determination.
We use state-of-the-art equipment, sponsored by John Deere and several local John Deere dealerships. Farm Rescue also has several purchased pieces of equipment, made possible through grant funding and business/individual contributions. Our livestock feeding equipment is sponsored by Haybuster. This equipment utilizes the latest technology and is operated by experienced volunteers. Equipment normally consists of four-wheel drive tractors, 60’ no-till air seeders, 60’ corn / soybean planters, combines 40’/45’ flex, 12-row 30’ corn headers and a John Deere round baler. Chevrolet trucks sponsored by Puklich Chevrolet, Ryan Chevrolet and Certified Heartland Chevy Dealers are used for transportation. If necessary, we may also utilize a farmer’s equipment.
We plant small grains in 7.5” spacing and row crops in 15” or 30” spacing.
Have questions or need help with your application? Please contact us at info@farmrescue.org or (701) 252-2017.
P.O. Box 28
Horace, ND 58047
(701) 252-2017
info@farmrescue.org
Monday through Friday
8:00 AM through 5:00 PM
