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About Row Crop Headers

Headers are farm machine attachments available for self-propelled and pull-type harvesters designed to cut a given plant down and move it into the combine harvester it’s attached to, where it can be processed. How headers do this, though, varies on the header type; you’ll find corn, sunflower, grain, draper, rigid, flex, bean, pickup, dummy, auger, and other header types for sale, but TractorHouse.com breaks them into three main categories: row crop, platform, and forage. Row crop headers are developed specifically to tackle row crops, with corn being a common example.

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Gleaner 3300 Command Series Corn Header

Compared to platform headers that use a wide wheel, cutter bar, and auger or draper system to collect, cut, and convey the crop into the combine, row crop headers work similarly but feature multiple snouts, or what look like spikes or fingers. These run between the crop rows, and between the snouts are a combination of rollers, knives, chains, belts, and/or other components that gather, pull back, and cut or snap the plant, stripping the stalk and leaving it behind while directing the corn, soybeans, sunflower, or other crop to an auger and into the combine.

Row Crop Header Features

You’ll find row crop headers dedicated to specific crops, such as corn headers, while others provide all-around crop ability and can handle sunflower, sorghum, millet, and other crops. Modern row crop headers offer an assortment of features and technologies that make operators’ lives easier while enhancing harvesting efficiency. Modern New Holland headers, for example, have shorter snouts that provide better ground-contouring ability and thus run down less of your crop. New Holland’s newer corn headers more readily expose the snout’s gathering chains for better gathering of downed corn.

Elsewhere, John Deere is among companies that offer rigid and folding corn heads, with Deere’s CR and CF headers reaching up to 18-row widths. CF-series headers fold for easy transport between fields and then quickly unfold when it’s time to go to work, resulting in more acres harvested per day and better visibility in tight spaces. Case IH’s corn headers, meanwhile, include a narrow row configuration option with 20- or 22-inch row spacing designed for cleaner picking, faster harvesting, and better down picking. Case IH’s headers also feature a lighter design that helps reduce soil compaction.

Find The Row Crop Header For You

You’ll find a large selection of new and used row crop headers for sale every day on TractorHouse.com from popular manufacturers including Case IH, Drago, Geringhoff, Gleaner, John Deere, New Holland, and others.