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. Different weed problems such as foxtail barley, dandelions, narrow-leaved hawksbeard and scentless chamomile are becoming more prominent. We appear to have more tan spot and septoria in wheat following canola or flax, probably from the prior wheat crop's straw.