"What's the point of spending money and fuel chopping them when all it is going to do is leave all the crap on the ground and make it harder to plant the beans next year?"

We haven't chopped stalks in 7 years.    Strip tilled for 4.  After last spring, we vowed to not have planting issues again.......... There is a radio show on here at noon, every spring and fall they have farmers from a 70 mile radius call in to ask how planting or harvest progress is going.  I did not realize how big a problem we were having planting untill our neighbors called in thinking Renville County was 80-90% complete.    We are usually done ahead of the crowd, this year at that time we had 1800 acres to go..........

That being said, we will not chop all the stalks, soybeans seem to plant easy after hitting the stalks once in the fall with the Wishek disc (figure 12 bucks),  and once with F.C. (figure 6)      Am getting sick of soybeans, corn sure seems to grow here better.  Wish I was smart like Greywolf and put wheat in this year.... 

Corn on Corn seems to do better with less trash, allong with navies.   Another reason we opted out of a chopper head.