Farm Rescue: A tradition of neighbor helping neighbor

By Ron Burtz on Tuesday, September 23, 2025

In 20 years over 3,000 volunteers have helped 1,220 farmers in crisis

  • Tim Sullivan (left), executive director of Farm Rescue, visits with FFA students from Hartington at the organization’s booth at Husker Harvest Days. The non-profit, based in Jamestown, N.D., has hundreds of volunteers across 10 states ready to help farmers during a time of crisis with planting or harvest.
    Tim Sullivan (left), executive director of Farm Rescue, visits with FFA students from Hartington at the organization’s booth at Husker Harvest Days. The non-profit, based in Jamestown, N.D., has hundreds of volunteers across 10 states ready to help farmers during a time of crisis with planting or harvest.
    The tradition of neighbor helping neighbor, especially in a time of crisis, is as old as farming itself, but for the past 20 years a North Dakota non-profit has been doing that on a grand scale. Farm Rescue, started in 2005 in Jamestown, N.D., now has volunteers and equipment across 10 states (soon to be 11) standing by to help farmers who have suffered an injury, illness or natural disaster wi...

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