ABSTRACT LEAVES on sweet sorghum stalks reduce juice quality, sugar, and ethanol obtainable from the crop, and reduce the payload of the crop. A device using rubber fingers to remove the leaves from rows of standing stalks was developed, tested and evaluated. It was simple, compact, reliable, and safe. The average results for the better treatments using the device on Wray variety sweet sorghum were 89% leaf removal, 3% stalk loss, and 2.7 kW-h/t of leaves removed. Overall performance was better than for other detrashing devices reported for use on sweet sorghum and sugarcane