A fire donation was presented from Box Butte County to Dawes County Farm 
Bureau by Mary Crawford, Alliance; Natasha and Trisha Schumacher, Hemingford,  to Shelly and Thorpe Thompson of Whitney. 

Ag producers in Box Butte County are lending a helping hand to  neighbors in the north who were struck by wildfires earlier this fall.

At the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting in Kearney on  December 3-4, members of the Box Butte County Farm Bureau presented a $500 donation to Dawes County Farm Bureau members to go toward the Chadron Community Foundation Relief for fire recovery.

Box Butte County members specified the donation was to go toward supplies  such as feed or fencing materials, said Mary Crawford, Box Butte County Farm  Bureau president.

“As farmers and ranchers, we know the devastating effects fire leaves in replacing fence posts, corrals, shelter and forages in pastures and hay grounds,”  Crawford said. “This is a small donation to assist in the recovery.”