fallow

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

"Richmond Park's red and fallow deer are wild, powerful animals. Although they may appear calm, they can react suddenly and aggressively if they feel threatened," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

“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

I hae seen a' te praw fallows, wha are as keen for te onset as te eagles o' Shehallion.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

The remaining acres would do for spring-sowing, or as fallows, or for pasture.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai

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 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. 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

If the land is not fallowed and the seed sown immediately after ploughing, the cost is correspondingly less.

From Wheat Growing in Australia by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

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

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

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024

"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

Turn the mould that was trenched and laid up for fallowing; this will destroy the weeds, and enrich the soil by exposing it to the air.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton