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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

With a huge surplus of commercial space sitting fallow in the area, the flexibility and creativity of club music might be a natural fit to repopulate the area with foot traffic and revelers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In Europe and Asia, farmers try to avoid stressing the soil by rotating crops; they may plant wheat one year, legumes the next, and let the field lie fallow in the year following.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

They do not manure the soil, but prevent exhaustion by long fallows.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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

That creates systematic differences between fallowed and cultivated fields, which could skew Boser's analysis.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

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

At first it should be summer fallowed or cultivated every few weeks throughout the summer, to kill the weeds and make it fine and level.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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

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

He also replenishes his soil with nitrogen-producing legumes, along with corn planting and with summer fallowing.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy