Back in November 2010, an issue arose when a Northern Natural Gas crew stopped at a Platte County field and asked a co-op employee taking soil samples if they had called Digger's Hotline. They responded that they had not, which brought on a request by several Nebraska utilities to make soil sampling a practice under the One-Call Act, which requires a call to the Digger's Hotline.
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning made a statement in late March regarding agricultural soil sampling and the state's One-Call Digger's Hotline, which was good news for producers and third-party soil samplers.
"To be clear—farmers, their employees and any third-parties they contract with to do routine soil sampling for agricultural purposes do not need to call the Diggers Hotline prior to taking a soil sample,” said Bruning. “This is an agricultural state and soil sampling is business as usual. I won't second guess the commonsense of Nebraska farmers."
It's important for farmers to know that they are exempt from being required to call the Diggers Hotline, but they should still be careful when taking soil samples. To read more, check out this Nebraska Farmer article.
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