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Ideally, she said, the federal government would purchase certain water-intensive farmland or pay farmers to leave it fallow, as it did after the Dust Bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

But the festival's fallow year has left a gaping hole in the summer music calendar.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Out of sight of Mrs. Strawberry, I veer toward Mr. Reilly’s house, leaping mullens and thistles growing in the fallow field.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

Behind the downs rise again, their slopes in spring a mass of colour—green corn, squares of bright yellow mustard, bright crimson trifolium, and brown fallows.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

All day I wrought fasting, and when darkness fell in the fallows were turned.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

He enters bonds, and forfeits them by forgetting the day; and asks his neighbour when his own field was fallowed, whether the next piece of ground belong not to himself.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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 means, among other things, fallowing between 500,000 and 900,000 acres of San Joaquin Valley cropland during the next two decades, experts say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

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

The term "fallowing" is sometimes applied to the operation of plowing, and sometimes the land is left bare without a crop sometime after plowing; this is called "bare fallowing" the land.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon