Area producers donate hay for Sandhills fire relief

Trucks, trailers needed to transport donated hay 

Cale Carson has his trailer loaded with hay bales ready to be taken to Farnham area on March 25 to help feed cattle left hungry by the Cottonwood Fire which burned up thousands of acres of prairie grass earlier in the month.
Cale Carson has his trailer loaded with hay bales ready to be taken to Farnham area on March 25 to help feed cattle left hungry by the Cottonwood Fire which burned up thousands of acres of prairie grass earlier in the month.

With thousands of acres of late winter forage in western Nebraska having been destroyed by the recent wildfires at multiple locations, help has been on the way in the form of hay donations from around the region and even from right here in Hamilton County.  At least two loads have gone west already, delivered by area farmer Cale Carlson and his daughter and son-in-law, Laura and Grant Wilson.…