JAMESTOWN, N.D. — The nonprofit Farm Rescue organization has wrapped up its year after helping 50 families.

The North Dakota-based nonprofit provides planting and harvesting help free of charge to farm families in the region stricken by a major illness, injury or disaster.

Since 2006, Farm Rescue has helped more than 250 farm families in the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Iowa. The 50 families helped this year was the organization’s highest annual total to date.