PICKRELL — Thirty big rounds of hay are being trucked from the rural Pickrell area to help out livestock owners near Harrison in the far northwest corner of Nebraska.

Robert Harms of Pickrell began his 400-mile journey on Friday and expected to arrive in Sioux County sometime Saturday.

The hay was provided by 13 farmers who attend Zion Lutheran Church of rural Pickrell.

The Harrison-area livestock owners are reeling from the effects of drought and from the wildfires earlier this summer.

Rain in southeast Nebraska provided better-than-expected hay crops, so Harms approached his pastor, John Sievers, about helping out ag producers elsewhere.