fallow

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

Franzoy has turned more than a third of her land into fallow fields under a state program that pays farmers to reduce their water consumption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The event will take place from 23-27 June 2027 at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, after a fallow year in 2026.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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

It is probable, moreover, that the pollen content of the atmosphere is not related to roadside ragweed, but to the ragweed of city lots and fallow fields.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

Then lead, calm votress, where some sheety lake Cheers the lone heath, or some time hallowed pile,     Or upland fallows gray     Reflect its last cool gleam.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell

Hares abounded on the fallows, and rabbits swarmed everywhere.

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

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

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

Stationing the men silently round about the house, fallowed by Israel, he announced his presence at the porch.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

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

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

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies