Agriculture affects local, regional, and global climate through greenhouse gas emissions, and modifications of the biogeochemical cycles, water and energy budget (McDermid et al., 2017). Agricultural land conversion, expansion, and intensification is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, contributing 23% of the total anthropogenic emissions of GHGs (IPCC, 2019). Agricultural intensification also impacts local and regional temperature and precipitation via modification of surface energy partitioning and an increase in evapotranspira tion (Lobell et al., 2006;Mueller et al., 2016;D. Lombardozzi et al., 2018). Due to these impacts, and because of its fundamental importance to human societies and well-being, agriculture is increasingly being represented in Earth System Models (ESMs) (