Crop divider with automatic height control

An agricultural apparatus for reducing damage to crop plants growing on a field surface, the apparatus comprising:

• an agricultural implement mounted on implement wheels and operating on the field surface;
• a plurality of divider mechanisms, each divider mechanism mounted in front of one of the implement wheels and comprising:
• a divider member comprising a diversion member tapering laterally from a front end of the divider member to a rear end of the divider member and operative to push the crop plants away from a path of the implement wheel;
• an actuator operative to move the divider member up and down;
• a control located adjacent to an operator's station and operative to activate each actuator to selectively move each of the divider members up and down;
• a sensor system operative to sense a divider height of at least one of the divider members above the field surface, wherein the sensor system is connected to the control such that the control when in a field mode is operative to specify a desired divider height for at least one of the divider members that is between a minimum divider height above the field surface and a maximum divider height above the field surface and operate each actuator to maintain the desired divider height for at least one of the divider members.