Flandreau native Dennis Wiese recently joined Farm Rescue, a one-of-a-kind nonprofit organization that provides planting, harvesting and haying assistance free of charge to family farmers who have suffered a major injury, illness or natural disaster. Wiese, who was president of the South Dakota Farmers Union from 1993-2005, serves as Farm Rescue's director of development. Farm Rescue is based in Jamestown, North Dakota. It was launched by Bill Gross in 2005. Wiese discussed Farm Rescue on Tuesday.