Yard & mailing address
- Street
- 4820 North Dayton Avenue, Ames, Iowa 50010
- Counter entrance
- North gate, second door on the right past the seed pallets
- Parcel receiving
- Deliveries Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Contact
Reach the Northline desk in Ames
Blended seed, bagged feed and spring agronomy runs out of one yard on the north edge of Ames. Call before noon and we can usually have a bulk order loaded the same day, and an agronomist out to your fields within two business days.
One phone line, one order inbox monitored by the two people who schedule trucks. No phone trees, no ticket numbers to chase.
Where to find us
The sales counter, the seed warehouse and the feed mill all sit behind the same fence line off County Road E29.
Phone and orders
- Yard line
- (515) 555-0142
- Order email
- orders@northlinegrain.com
- Agronomy desk
- Extension 2 when the yard line picks up, or agronomy@northlinegrain.com
- Office hours
- Monday to Friday 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 7:00 a.m. to noon until 31 May
Voicemail left after 5:30 p.m. is checked at 7:00 the next morning, including Saturdays through spring planting.
Directions and loading-bay instructions
Read this before you pull a hopper bottom or a tandem trailer onto the property. Our lanes are short and the mill runs two bays, so arriving unprepared backs up County Road E29.
- Take Exit 113 off US-30 onto Dayton Avenue, then head north 1.4 miles. The yard is on the left immediately after the E29 intersection, marked by the green Northline sign.
- Pull past the scale and stop. A dispatcher signs you in at the window on the driver's side; no appointment slip is needed if your ticket number was issued by phone or email the day before.
- Bay 1 handles bulk grain and bagged feed, Bay 2 handles liquid and custom blends. Back in at a shallow angle so your hopper gate clears the pit grate. Trailer lengths above 40 feet are sent to the north gate instead.
- Before you pull away, confirm the printed net weight against your ticket and hand the signed copy back to the dispatcher. Loads hauled after 5:00 p.m. need a call the same morning so we can hold a shipping clerk on site.
“Thursday and Friday afternoons in April are our worst window. If you can take a Wednesday morning load, you will usually be on the road in twenty minutes.” — Darlene Voss, shipping clerk
Quotes, agronomist visits and fall-booking appointments
Write to the desk that owns the answer instead of the general inbox, and include the four details below. Most quotes go back the same working day; a field visit gets booked within two business days, three during planting season.
| Request | Write to | Include with the message | Typical reply |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crop-input quote | orders@northlinegrain.com | Crop, tillable acres, pickup or delivered, target date | Same working day |
| Agronomist field visit | agronomy@northlinegrain.com | Township and county, GPS pin or crossroads, prior crop | Within 2 business days |
| Feed ration review | orders@northlinegrain.com | Species, head count, current on-hand tonnes, grist mill notes | 1 to 3 working days |
| Fall booking and locking | (515) 555-0142 | Contract acres, wanted delivery month, hauling capacity | Call signals same day |
Georgetown Exchange number for seed payments and batch-fed dairy accounts are both handled at the counter, not by letter; the tax identification code is 42-1049812-6.