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Oct. 2, 2019Nebraska |  By: Simon Clark

Nebraska farmers & operators cautioned to avoid powerlines

The Nebraska Public Power District is warning local farmers to look out and look up this harvest season and beware of powerlines.

Media Relations Specialist for NPPD, Grant Otten, says that big machinery used for harvests are a hazard in relation to powerlines.

"So as harvest season gets underway, it's been kind of a funky year with all the rain we had in the spring and the flooding.  Sometimes it seems like some fields were getting planted a little sooner than others.  As they begin harvest season, they've taken a lot of big equipment out into the fields.  And of course, when you have big equipment, you need to be careful of the powerlines.  So really the main thing for us is we want farmers and operators of big equipment during harvest season to be aware of where powerlines are at.  We've situations in the past.  That can put whoever is in that piece of equipment in a real tough situation, a potentially fatal situation, if they don't act accordingly."

NPPD highly recommends farmers to be extremely cautious while handling harvesting equipment this season and to be aware of where powerlines may be around their fields.