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“Over Elliott’s five-decade existence, fallow periods have existed, but these have historically been accompanied by market turbulence and followed by periods of rare opportunities,” the letter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

This format also means every team plays three group games, there are no fallow weekends and the whole tournament can be done in a relatively tight five weeks.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

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

Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Down they went all day through France with rain speckling the windows of their compartment, past the naked poplar trees and rolling fallows until dusk fell sadly on the flooded agriculture.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

We're, ye see, a hunner strong in oor quarter, and as fine a set o' stout, resolute fallows as ye wad wish to see, and a' ready to turn oot at a moment's notice.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

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

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

“Ultimately what you end up with is potential for, honestly, a lot of fallowed land, and that same crop being imported into this country from other countries,” Covington said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

All the requisite conditions for germination are best met by the conditions prevailing in a well-kept summer fallowed soil.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe

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 considered fallowing and manure unnecessary, and grew without manure 13 successive wheat crops on the same piece of ground, getting better crops than his neighbours who pursued the ordinary course of farming.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler