fallowing

noun

noun

A period during which a field is left fallow.

The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.1860, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture:

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