Harvest Hotline activated in North Dakota

BISMARCK — Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has activated the North Dakota Harvest Hotline.

“Farmers who want customized combining and combiners searching for a job ought to name us at 701-425-8454,” Goehring mentioned. “Your identify and data will probably be entered into the Harvest Hotline database to be matched up with different callers.”

Goehring mentioned North Dakota Division of Agriculture staff will reply calls to the hotline weekdays from 8 a.m. to five p.m. Callers can even depart a message on evenings and weekends. The service is freed from cost.

A self-service Harvest Hotline map can be accessible once more this 12 months. The map might be discovered by clicking on “Useful resource Maps” at

http://www.nd.gov/ndda/

. Customers could click on on the icons to retrieve details about harvesters accessible of their space.

“Each farmers and harvesters are already using the service,” Goehring mentioned.

First applied in 1992, when opposed climate situations triggered a heavy demand for customized combining, the Harvest Hotline has been supplied yearly as a free service for farmers and customized harvesters.