Loss Evaluation of Soybean Harvesting on Four Types of Headers

Soybean header losses were evaluated on four header configurations: rigidheader, flexible header, row crop header, and rigid header with milo guards. The formerthree headers have commonly been used for soybean harvesting. The results of fieldtests showed the lowest loss in the rigid header followed by flexible header, row cropheader, and rigid header with milo guards. The evaluation results were different fromthose previously reported, which typically found the least loss with a row crop headerfollowed by flexible header and rigid header. The difference of header losses amongfour headers was not statistically significant. For the effect of the milo guard on headerlosses, the advantage on all kinds of losses, which include stalk, stubble, lodged, andshatter losses, was not shown.