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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

The festival is taking a fallow year this summer, allowing the land at Worthy Farm to recover and the film is opening during what would have been the festival weekend.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

“Ida B,” Daddy said, “we’ve been thinking about the south field that’s been lying fallow for a while and that it might be a good place to plant some more apple trees.”

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

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

Phyllis had spent her morning out seeding, as every other farmer in the district was doing, while her hired man was busy with plough and team breaking the last year's fallows.

From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum

Although partridges roam far by day, they invariably come together at night, being partial to the same fields and fallows.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous

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

So, she compared transpiration in fallowed fields to active fields across the Central Valley.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 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

Often, owing to want of sufficient hands and shortness of time or other reasons, land which has been fallowed is sown without being first ploughed up.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan

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

But they have strongly opposed permanent fallowing of land, which they say would harm food production and local economies.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

"We're probably going to have to fall back on fallowing at least a little bit," Boser said, "but hopefully not as much as we were originally expecting."

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

The ordinary Corne soiles continue not fertile, with fallowing and foyling, and the best requires supply, euen for the little body of Corne.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by William Lawson