Credit: Josh Withers
A few months ago the largest wildfire in Nebraska history burned a thousand square-miles of ranch land.
It burned every foot of grass on Mike and Kayla Wintz’s 11,000-acre ranch.
But when they and their neighbors faced the threat of losing their livelihoods, something remarkable happened.
Thousands of anonymous donors stepped up from across the U.S.
The Wintz ranch alone was gifted $80,000 worth of hay—from mostly anonymous donors.
“No one asked for this help,” reported Steve Hartman on CBS Evening News. “It just came…”
It came from thousands of farmers and ranchers and truck drivers, from as far away as South Carolina.
It came from the Nebraska Cattlemen Disaster Relief Fund, which raised over a million dollars, going directly to affected cattle owners. And, to cover the staggering fuel costs required to transport these hay conveys across vast Midwestern states, the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Foundation matched thousands of dollars in donations they raised from the public.
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Watch the heartwarming video from Steve Hartman, below…
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