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Soybean header losses were evaluated on four header configurations: rigid header, flexible header, row crop header, and rigid header with milo guards. The former three headers have commonly been used for soybean harvesting. The results of field tests showed the lowest loss in the rigid header followed by flexible header, row crop header, and rigid header with milo guards. The evaluation results were different from those previously reported, which typically found the least loss with a row crop header followed by flexible header and rigid header. The difference of header losses among four headers was not statistically significant. For the effect of the milo guard on header losses, the advantage on all kinds of losses, which include stalk, stubble, lodged, and shatter losses, was not shown.