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grasses, an outcome not uncommon when soils are near exhaustion and need to lie fallow. In shifting agriculture, after two or three years of producing vegetable...

field was left fallow. The three fields were rotated in this manner so that every three years, one of the fields would rest and lie fallow. Under the two-field...

sits in the middle of its own 490-hectare (1,200-acre) estates which lie fallow and untended. During the 1980s and early 1990s many political prisoners...

seventh year, farmers in the land of Israel are commanded to let their land lie fallow, and slaves were freed. The celebration of the Jubilee is the fiftieth...

of the smaller farms were not profitable, leaving their own farms to lie fallow for months, the farmers supplemented income by working on farms producing...

a chief. Areas may be placed under rāhui requiring them to be left to lie fallow so that the resources may regenerate.: 105  The custom of rāhui is still...

Israel and is observed in Judaism. During shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and...

or other enclosure for livestock. A field may also be an area left to lie fallow or as arable land. Many farms have a field border, usually composed of...

they moved their fields and homes about every ten years to allow land to lie fallow and recover from cultivation. The Pamunkey, and all Virginia tribes, had...

crop, winter wheat prevents soil erosion over winter when many fields lie fallow, and helps maintain topsoil Winter wheat out-competes many weed varieties...

Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus Dama of subfamily Cervinae. The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour...

rotation system, where for the first six months, the field is allowed to lie fallow with a layer of coffee grounds on it suppressing weed growth, then the...

totally absorbing and demanding so it felt right to let the other fields lie fallow". Guite teaches in the pastoral theology graduate programme at the Cambridge...

utmost seclusion and most rigid parsimony. His lands were allowed to lie fallow so that the expense of cultivation might be avoided. He took only one...

to a new area. New farmland is cleared and the old farm is allowed to lie fallow and replenish itself. The particular type of shifting agriculture employed...

observed in contemporary Judaism. During Shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and...

be enough food stored to last the winter in which the cropland would lie fallow. In the nineteenth century, the Owens River was first seen by American...

produce is sown by anyone in this year, and command that the land must "lie fallow". It is not mentioned whether slaves receive rest from non-agricultural...

made it financially profitable to develop areas which otherwise would lie fallow; bluestem prairie is one such area. However, habitat expansion for wheat...

large part of the summer and winters. There was no need to let the soil lie fallow as clover would add nitrates (nitrogen-containing salts) back to the soil...