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“Over Elliott’s five-decade existence, fallow periods have existed, but these have historically been accompanied by market turbulence and followed by periods of rare opportunities,” the letter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Farmers will have to fallow their alfalfa fields, homeowners pull out their lawns, industries will have to reform.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

It was an attempt to formalize the notion that some ideas are ahead of their time, and to get a sense of how often they occur and how long they typically lie fallow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" 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

Turnips are now substituted in the place of these naked fallows; and now land in turnips is considered as fallow.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster

They met Keeley, the shepherd, returning with his flock, to fold them upon the fallows; but no one was with him.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

The Department of Water Resources said the program has also helped in redirecting floodwaters onto fallowed farmland to recharge groundwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

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

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

“Ultimately what you end up with is potential for, honestly, a lot of fallowed land, and that same crop being imported into this country from other countries,” Covington said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

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

Brett Miller said the current program is “a strong solution in conserving a lot of water, and doing so without crippling our local farming industry, as full-year fallowing has done elsewhere.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

“Water shortages, mandatory restrictions, land fallowing and job loss all impact our state and local economies.”

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

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

At the present time bare fallowing is, in general, only advisable on stiff soils and in dry climates.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various