The invention concerns a harvesting equipment (1) used for harvesting corn or similar stalk plants (3). Said harvesting equipment (1) comprises at least an endless rotary conveyor (4; 5) for transporting the harvested plants (3), forming at the end part, a supply zone (30) wherein the plants (3) are conveyed towards an inlet (6) of a processing device, in particular a chopper. Said endless conveyor (4; 5) comprises at least a lower cutting plane (S), provided with cutting means (16) oriented outwards, and at least a retaining plane (H1; H2) for the stalks of the plants, provided with retaining means (17; 18), and located above said cutting plane (S). Said harvesting equipment is so designed that in the supply zone (30) is located at least a tangential horizontal knife (31), which, in operation, is parallel to the cutting means (16) passing beneath it.