An apparatus for the harvesting and collecting of plant materials from the tops of the plants, such as a corn plant, or other types of crops, above the ear(s), either before, during or after pollination, sweet corn harvesting time or at the black layer, while the stalk is still alive, and has most of its moisture, or at any advantageous time in the growing cycle and collect such plant materials for livestock feed, fuels, sugars or other nutrients, and or for any other useful purpose.