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What (who) is Fallow - definition

THE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE OF LEAVING PLOUGHED AND HARROWED LAND UNSOWN FOR ONE OR MORE GROWING SEASONS.

Fallow land

fallow

1.

Fallow land has been dug or ploughed but nothing has been planted in it, especially so that its quality or strength has a chance to improve.

The fields lay fallow.

ADJ

2.

A fallow period is a time when very little is being achieved.

There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

fallow

fallow¹

¦ adjective

1. (of farmland) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown.

2. inactive: a fallow period.

3. (of a sow) not pregnant.

¦ noun a piece of fallow land.

¦ verb leave (land) fallow.

Derivatives

fallowness noun

Origin

OE fealgian 'to break up land for sowing', of Gmc origin.

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fallow²

¦ noun a pale brown or reddish yellow colour.

Origin

OE falu, fealu, of Gmc origin.

fallow

adj.

uncultivated

to lie fallow (the field lay fallow)

Wikipedia

Fallow

Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts. Crop rotation systems typically called for some of a farmer's fields to be left fallow each year.

The increase in intensive farming, including the use of cover crops in lieu of fallow practices, has caused a loss of acreage of fallow land, as well as field margins, hedges, and wasteland. This has reduced biodiversity; fallows have been the primary habitat for farmland bird populations.

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Examples of use of Fallow

1. The truck passed fallow field after fallow field, acres that should be waist–high with corn by now.

2. They could leave it fallow or rent it for pasture.

3. Zoo story The Zoological Gardens released seven Persian fallow deer to roam the Judean Hills. .

4. "I think it‘s a matter of letting them lie fallow," says Burr.

5. They wanted their plots spared and the government should find an alternative land in fallow areas.