ND: GOEHRING ACTIVATES HARVEST HOTLINE

News Date August 18, 2009

Farmers who need combining services and independent combiners looking for work should call the North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) Harvest Hotline at (701) 328-1500. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has activated the hotline because of the lateness of this year’s crops.

Harvest Hotline, which matches farmers with custom harvesters, was created for this kind of situation. Callers to the Harvest Hotline are listed in a database that NDDA personnel use to match producers with combiners. The service is free of charge. The Harvest Hotline was first used in 1992, when adverse weather conditions caused a heavy demand for custom combining. It proved popular and has since been offered annually as a service for farmers and combiners. (Contact Ted Quanrud at (701) 328-2233)