Field (agriculture)

A field of sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) with the church of Nuestra Señora de La Blanca in the background, Cardejón, Spain

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.

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  A rare green summer fields (San Ildefonso, Bulacan)

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.

See also

• Coastal plain
• Flooded grasslands and savannas
• Flood-meadow
• Grassland
• Meadow
• Pasture
• Plain
• Plateau
• Prairie
• Savanna
• Steppe
• Vineyard
• Water-meadow
• Wet meadow
• Veld