Jérôme Bernier Brillon

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1. Introduction Over recent years, alternative cropping systems have been proposed to challenge the negative environmental impacts of conventional field cropping caused by intensive mechanical soil disturbance and the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Direct seeding (DS) systems have been put forward to reduce mechanical tillage and more than 70% [7] of the incidence of soil erosion.