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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

Korda said those fallow years humbled her, but she was about to have plenty of reasons to boast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

In the Tule area, farmers have been reducing pumping under rules set by local agencies, leaving some fields dry and fallow.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The theory was he would no longer be tied down by the burden of his own expectation and quickly produce more major victories now his 11-year fallow period had finally ended.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

Each year, one field was allowed to lie fallow, and the other two would be planted with a crop different from the one planted there the year before.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

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

In the south spread the green fields and red fallows of Clearwater, bathed in the sheen of the lingering sun.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

The bare fallows of a factory are of short duration, and occur at lengthened intervals.

From The Hills and the Vale by Jefferies, Richard

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

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. 20, 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 Melville, Herman

The results, published in Nature Communications, suggest that variation in efficiency due to farming practices could save as much water as switching crops or fallowing fields.

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

That plan calls for reducing use through a combination of efforts that range from paying farmers not to pump groundwater to leasing surface water, fallowing farmland and making infrastructure improvements.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

The federal money supporting the fallowing of farmland functions “like a painkiller,” said Newsha Ajami, chief development officer for research at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023

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 Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849