fallow

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

Stalk land, fallow fields, and brushland, all appeared to be sewn together by wide fencerow stitches of trees.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

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

Population largely increases, waste lands are brought under the plough, grazing grounds for stock disappear, and the fallows, formerly so beneficial in restoring fertility to the soil, can no longer be kept free from cultivation.

From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various

The French pound is about one-twelfth heavier than the English; but from the general custom of folding the sheep in France, feeding them in fallows, and wintering them in houses, the fleece becomes very dirty.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

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

Because the trees require watering in wet years or dry, their acreage can’t be fallowed during dry spells.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024

Researchers applied crushed rock, both metabasalt and olivine, on 5 acres of a fallowed cornfield in the Sacramento Valley.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023

Wells ran dry, farmers fallowed fields and cities restricted watering grass.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

If the soil has not been carefully fallowed before planting, it may be necessary to water the young trees slightly during the first two seasons.

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

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

That plan calls for reducing use through a combination of efforts that range from paying farmers not to pump groundwater to leasing surface water, fallowing farmland and making infrastructure improvements.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

By getting as much summer fallowing as possible done on the second quarter-section.

From Ranching for Sylvia by Harold Bindloss