fallow
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Poisoned by the overwhelmingly toxic culture of time, the film’s downward-punching humor is as radioactive as its future’s fallow fields.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The event was rested for a fallow year this summer but will return in June 2027, with tickets expected to go on sale in November.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Landover data center site was proposed by Lerner Enterprises, a D.C.-based real estate firm that’s operated by the family that owns the Washington Nationals and has rights to that fallow lot.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
As a result, fallow fields are in a "deplorable state, and at the slightest spark, the blaze spreads like wildfire" due to vegetation dried out by the heat.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
She could see why bunnies and bobwhites loved fallow fields.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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Swidden-fallow systems, he argues, maintain a mosaic of fields, fallows, and forests, that is heterogeneous and therefore resilient to climate change.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 8, 2016
Today Mr. Skov fallows a fifth of his fields, and canal water that once flowed from March to October arrives in June and vanishes as early as August.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2015
Around 25% are using improved fallows with nitrogen-fixing trees, a scientific farming approach developed and introduced into Sauri by the World Agroforestry Center.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We're, ye see, a hunner strong in oor quarter, and as fine a set o' stout, resolute fallows as ye wad wish to see, and a' ready to turn oot at a moment's notice.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
The remaining acres would do for spring-sowing, or as fallows, or for pasture.
From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai
Estimates suggest up to 900,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley alone might need to be fallowed to reduce the drawdown of groundwater and balance supply and demand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
So, she created a machine-learning model to conduct a weighted comparison between active and fallowed land, accounting for factors like location, topography and soil quality.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
That was possible because some habitat was nestled within fields or along the margins and farmers often fallowed some fields.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
Some surplus water will be poured across fallowed farm fields so it can soak into the ground and recharge sinking aquifers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
On a good seed-bed of fallowed soil less seed may be used than where the soil has not been carefully tilled and is somewhat rough and lumpy and unfavorable for complete germination.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
Options include “more efficient irrigation, less water-intensive crops and short-term fallowing of fields,” according to Michael Cohen, a senior fellow at the Pacific Institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Water shortages, mandatory restrictions, land fallowing and job loss all impact our state and local economies.”
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
The results, published in Nature Communications, suggest that variation in efficiency due to farming practices could save as much water as switching crops or fallowing fields.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
These groups became convinced that this relic technology could curb hunger in the Andes by enabling back-to-back potato harvests with no need for fallowing.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2024
Huey Dunn's plan of mellowing, or rotting the soil, was not yet the true fallowing method.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
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