Replacing summer fallow with annual forage improves crude protein productivity and water use efficiency of the summer fallow-winter wheat cropping system

Agriculture & Biology

• forage crops 99%
• fallow 88%
• winter wheat 80%
• water use efficiency 80%
• cropping systems 79%
• crude protein 70%
• forage 64%
• summer 55%
• Vicia sativa subsp. sativa 40%
• economic productivity 39%
• soil water storage 39%
• Vicia sativa 38%
• loess 35%
• forage yield 34%
• profitability 27%
• Brassica napus 27%
• plateaus 25%
• income 24%
• Triticum aestivum 23%
• soil water 23%
• farmers 19%
• proteins 19%
• economics 18%
• China 17%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• water use efficiency 100%
• fallow 97%
• forage 91%
• cropping practice 83%
• wheat 76%
• forage crop 67%
• protein 60%
• productivity 58%
• winter 51%
• summer 48%
• soil water 22%
• sustainability 20%
• water economics 20%
• rape (plant) 18%
• water extraction 17%
• profitability 15%
• water storage 14%
• loess 13%
• field experiment 12%
• income 12%
• economics 8%
• effect 3%