Deer firearm hunting season ended this weekend, with area hunters reporting less than usual success filling their tags.

Aurora Cooperative employee Les Regier unloads soybeans at the Marquette branch bin site. This photo was originally published in 1972.

Field work is wrapping up in Hamilton County and farmers are getting in the last bits of harvest, as shown here in a field near Highway 14. With the dry conditions effecting the soil, some farmers report a slow-down in field work after harvest.

Field work is wrapping up in Hamilton County and farmers are getting in the last bits of harvest, as shown here in a field near Highway 14. With the dry conditions effecting the soil, some farmers report a slow-down in field work after harvest.

Kurt Johnson

It took just over a day for friends and neighbors of Richard LaBrie to cut through the final 80 acres of this year’s harvest, helping finish a job that had become troublesome due to complications with his cancer treatment.

A combine rolls through a field east of Phillips last week as farmers work to finish up what most are describing as a good growing season in 2021. Wind damage from a July 9 storm, as well as some late October and early November rains, prolonged this year’s harvest.

Kurt Johnson

Executive director of the Nebraska Beef Council Ann Marie Bosshamer spoke to a full crowd on Sept. 15 at Husker Harvest Days on the topic of changing consumer trends in beef.

Another successful harvest season has wrapped up across Hamilton County.