Wheat crops usually yield more when grown after another species than when grown after
wheat. Quantifying the yield increase and explaining the factors that affect the increase will …

Yields of dryland (rainfed) wheat in Australia have increased steadily over the past century
despite rainfall being unchanged, indicating that the rainfall-use efficiency has increased …

Canola (Brassica napus L.) is a major oilseed crop for edible and industrial uses. Climate
change, characterized by extreme heat and drought conditions, can affect canola seed yield …

To increase crop yield per unit of scarce water requires both better cultivars and better
agronomy. The challenge is to manage the crop or improve its genetic makeup to: capture …

Water use efficiency (WUE), the ratio of grain yield to crop water use, provides a simple
means of assessing whether yield is limited by water supply or other factors. Based on this …

Although the US accounts for 38% of global soybean production, and produces 85 Mt
annually, quantification of US soybean yield gaps and assessment of underpinning causes …

Unlike the Central and Eastern US Corn-Belt where maize is grown almost entirely under
rainfed conditions, maize in the Western Corn-Belt is produced under both irrigated (3.2 …

The supply of and demand for nitrogen by whole industries and individual crops is
discussed in relation to changes in farming systems, particularly the relative importance of …

Chia seeds grown in different ecosystems of South America showed a significant difference
in protein and oil contents, peroxide index and fatty acid composition. The main fatty acid …

Canola, Indian mustard, and wheat were grown under dryland conditions at Ariah Park and
Cowra (canola only) in the cropping belt of New South Wales, Australia, to determine the …