In one embodiment, a swathboard control system, comprising: a header comprising fore and aft a cutting assembly and a conditioning system; a forming shield assembly; a swathboard located between the conditioning system and the forming shield assembly, the swathboard pivotably adjustable about a transverse axis; a position sensor configured to sense a position of the swathboard; and a computing system operably coupled to the position sensor, the computing system configured to provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.

In one embodiment, a swathboard control system, comprising: a header comprising fore and aft a cutting assembly and a conditioning system; a forming shield assembly; a swathboard located between the conditioning system and the forming shield assembly, the swathboard pivotably adjustable about a transverse axis; a position sensor configured to sense a position of the swathboard; and a computing system operably coupled to the position sensor, the computing system configured to provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.

In one embodiment, a swathboard control system, comprising: a header comprising fore and aft a cutting assembly and a conditioning system; a forming shield assembly; a swathboard located between the conditioning system and the forming shield assembly, the swathboard pivotably adjustable about a transverse axis; a position sensor configured to sense a position of the swathboard; and a computing system operably coupled to the position sensor, the computing system configured to provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.

In one embodiment, a swathboard control system, comprising: a header comprising fore and aft a cutting assembly and a conditioning system; a forming shield assembly; a swathboard located between the conditioning system and the forming shield assembly, the swathboard pivotably adjustable about a transverse axis; a position sensor configured to sense a position of the swathboard; and a computing system operably coupled to the position sensor, the computing system configured to provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.

A mobile hop harvester including a tilt-able cutting tower that can be lowered to move into the hop yard, and then raised to the full height of a trellis to top and bottom cut, and segment hop bines. The segmented bines fall through the tilted cutting tower and are moved upward and reward on a bine conveyor into a picking array that includes parallel series of rotating top retarders positioned over a parallel series of bottom picker fingers, each mounted on parallel spools or rollers, moving the cones, bines and debris forward through the processor at a downward incline, keeping the residual bines, leaves, twine, and debris engaged for ejection from the front or towed end of the processor, while allowing the hop cones to fall onto a cone conveyor upward out the rear of the processor for collection into a bin or the bed of a tending truck.

A mobile hop harvester including a tilt-able cutting tower that can be lowered to move into the hop yard, and then raised to the full height of a trellis to top and bottom cut, and segment hop bines. The segmented bines fall through the tilted cutting tower and are moved upward and reward on a bine conveyor into a picking array that includes parallel series of rotating top retarders positioned over a parallel series of bottom picker fingers, each mounted on parallel spools or rollers, moving the cones, bines and debris forward through the processor at a downward incline, keeping the residual bines, leaves, twine, and debris engaged for ejection from the front or towed end of the processor, while allowing the hop cones to fall onto a cone conveyor upward out the rear of the processor for collection into a bin or the bed of a tending truck.