An agricultural harvester includes a chassis a cleaning system carried by the chassis and is configured to clean crop material and a crop material elevator carried by the chassis that is supplied with cleaned crop material from the cleaning system. The crop material elevator includes: a housing including a boot portion at a bottom of the housing, the boot portion defining a bulbous shape on at least a conveyance side of the housing a driving loop held within the housing and configured to rotate a driving element linked to the driving loop and configured to rotate the driving loop and a plurality of paddles carried by the driving loop.