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After taking a fallow year in 2026, the Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that tickets for next year's event will go on sale in October.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

After the communist government fell in 1991, his family was handed ownership of its chunk of peninsula farmland, which had since gone fallow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

Day came, and the fallow sun blinked over the lifeless ridges of Ered Lithui.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

As the mile-stones fled past and the chilly March twilight crept over the dusky fallows and peered above the black hedgerows, he thought with unutterable pangs of the cheerful and comfortable town of Curtain Wells.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

The fallows are not, however, left to waste their substance entirely on weeds and wild-flowers, for they form the best spring-grazing grounds for cattle, and thus, too, receive a certain allowance of manure.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

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

Crops that could be fallowed during dry spells, leaving more water for the environment, were supplanted by almond and pistachio orchards, which require water in wet years and dry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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

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

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

To be fair, the results from fallowing would affect only 5% of cultivated land, as opposed to 50% for crop changes and improved farming practices.

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

They could choose different crops with different water needs from season to season or be compensated for fallowing fields in times of water stress.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

They figured they could plant part of the ground while the other lay fallowing.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies