From July 16th - August 15th, we asked No-Till Farmer readers:
"How do you plan to manage corn residue this fall to improve next spring's planting efforts?"
Here are the response tallies:
Nothing — let the soil life do the work [91 votes] (48%)
Chopping corn head/knife rolls [36 votes] (19%)
Combine spreader technology [33 votes] (18%)
Rotary cutters [11 votes] (6%)
Stalk-crushing devices [25 votes] (13%)
Soil biological products [16 votes] (9%)
Cover crops [84 votes] (45%)
Vertical tillage [13 votes] (7%)
Discing/plowing/full tillage [9 votes] (5%)