PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a root crop harvest machine capable of performing efficient harvest work by collecting a foliage part cut from root crops and reducing work frequency discharging the collected foliage part.SOLUTION: The root crop harvest machine harvests root crops by pulling out the root crops in a farm by a pull-out conveyance device 24 and separating the root crops from a foliage part by a foliage cut device 61 in a midway conveying the root crops rearward. The root crop harvest machine includes a foliage compression device 100 constituted by: a chute-shaped reception port 101 receiving the foliage part dropped from a terminal edge of a foliage discharge conveyance device 65 in a lower part of the pull-out conveyance device 24 a compression chamber 102 compressing the foliage part put in from the reception port 101 and a storage chamber 107 accumulating the foliage part compressed in the compression chamber 102.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】 本発明は、根菜類から切除した茎葉部を回収すると共に、回収した茎葉部を排出する作業の頻度を減らし、効率的な収穫作業が出来る根菜類収穫機を提供することを課題とする。【解決手段】 圃場の根菜類を引抜搬送装置24で引き抜き後方へ搬送する途中に茎葉切断装置61で根菜類と茎葉部に分離して根菜類を収穫する根菜類収穫機において、 引抜搬送装置24の下部で排葉搬送装置65の終端から落下する茎葉部を受けるシュート状の受入口101と、受入口101から入り込んだ茎葉部を圧縮する圧縮室102と、圧縮室102で圧縮した茎葉部を溜める貯留室107で構成する茎葉圧縮装置100を設ける。【選択図】図9
