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SW Ontario | It will depend entirely on what you are trying to do. In our case we run a corn/soy/wheat rotation. Our residue issues are after the wheat crop and using minimum tillage before the following corn crop. In my opinion the spreader does a decent job of spreading the straw the full width but it will leave it too long in some conditions for what we want. We put the chopper on a new STS this past year. We have some distribution issues I am confident we will figure out but it does a good job of sizing the material.
However if this is not your case from what I have seen the spreader will do a good job for less initial cost, less operating cost and potentially a lot less future maintenance cost.
If you search this database their was a similar talk not that long ago about this. Phil Needham posted a link to some of his findings and opinions that are worth the read.
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Spreader or Chopper
