Patent ID: 7814737

Claim:
A system for harvesting row crops, the system comprising: a harvesting machine; a row crop header including a frame, which is coupled to the harvesting machine, a plurality of row divider snoots operatively coupled to a forward portion of the frame and projecting forward therefrom, and a plurality of pairs of residue guides, each pair of residue guides being operatively coupled to the frame so that, when deployed, each pair of residue guides is located rearward from the forward portion of the frame, so as to extend downwardly from an underside of the frame, and is located behind a corresponding pair of adjacent row divider snoots and adjacent to a corresponding pair of stalk rolls of a plurality of pairs of stalk rolls of the row crop header; wherein the plurality of row divider snoots are spaced apart from one another across the frame so that, when the harvesting machine drives the plurality of row divider snoots into a plurality of crop rows, each row divider snoot moves in between adjacent crop rows in order to guide each crop row for harvesting by the harvesting machine; and harvest residue from each crop row, that has been harvested by the harvesting machine, when the harvesting machine drives the plurality of row divider snoots into the plurality of crop rows, is guided by each deployed pair of residue guides into a row that is left behind the harvesting machine in the place of the harvested crop row.