Young plants are protected from damaging winds and storms. More moisture on knolls. Less soil evaporation. Increased drought tolerance. Small seeded crops help break disease and insect cycles of cereals and pulses and vice versa.
Different crops expand harvest season and help reduce harvest stresses.
Allows for marketing options. Potholes are drier. Direct seeding equipment often performs adequately when damper. For many small seeded crops, earlier enhances yields. Where ground cover of straw was minimal, the plants survived.