Based on the least cost estimates in Table 4, it is clear several
stover harvest and storage systems could be economically
viable on farms, and that all systems had some tradeoffs. For
harvesting, chopping with a forage harvester appears to be
more expensive than round baling, but mostly because the full
harvest capacity of a forage harvester is not utilized with corn
stover. However, a forage harvester can be used to harvest
many crop types throughout the year,