William E. May

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the implications of land use changes on non-renewable energy requirements (both direct and indirect), energy output, and energy use efficiency for monoculture cereal, cereal-oilseed and cereal-pulse rotations, each managed using conventional (CT), minimum (MT), and zero (ZT) tillage practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the effects of three tillage methods (zero (ZT), minimum (MT) and conventional (CT) on crop establishment, plant height, seed weight, soil water storage, crop water use and grain yield over a 12-year period under Canadian growing conditions.

TL;DR: To improve the likelihood that barley will be acceptable for malting growers should select low-protein varieties, seed at relatively high rates and limit N application.

TL;DR: Overall, growing legumes for seed before a wheat–canola cropping sequence in conventional cereal cropping systems can increase crop yields, reduce EONR and improve the long-term sustainability of cereal crops systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-pool exponential decay model expressing undecomposed carbon simply as a function of thermal time accurately described the kinetics of decomposition of plant litter.