Field (agriculture)
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In agriculture, the word field refers generally to an area of land enclosed or otherwise and used for agricultural purposes such as:
- Cultivating crops
- Usage as a paddock or, generally, an enclosure of livestock
- Land left to lie fallow or as arable land
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A green field or paddock with Hereford cattle.
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A summer field.
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Two women in a field.
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Sown fields in an open field system of farming.
[edit] Language
In Australian and New Zealand English, any agricultural field may be called a paddock. If stock are grazed there, the space may be called a run, e.g. sheep run; cattle run.[1]
[edit] See also
- Coastal plain
- Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Flood-meadow
- Grassland
- Meadow
- Pasture
- Plain
- Plateau
- Prairie
- Savanna
- Steppe
- Vineyard
- Water-meadow
- Wet meadow
- Veld
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[edit] Notes
- ^ The Macquarie Dictionary run n. Def. 113
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