Managing Corn Residue 1. Managing Corn Residue Question Title * 1. How do you plan to manage corn residue this fall to improve next spring's planting efforts? (Choose any that apply.) Header, knife rolls or other combine improvements Combine spreaders Chop the stalks Run harrows or vertical-tillage tools Grazing Nitrogen or biological agents Harvest for ethanol Letting the earthworms and microbes break it down Done