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

After taking a fallow year in 2026, the Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that tickets for next year's event will go on sale in October.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

Near to the land where I had lately broken the fallows and grown me a crop of corn and potatoes, there were four roofless walls.

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine

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

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

That was possible because some habitat was nestled within fields or along the margins and farmers often fallowed some fields.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Gardens haue small place in comparison, and therefore may be more easily be fallowed, at the least one halfe yeare before, and the better dressed after it is framed.

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

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

“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

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

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

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies