Fallow (disambiguation)
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Fallow is the stage of crop rotation in which the land is deliberately not used to raise a crop. Ground may be fallowed as part of a larger crop rotation
Crop rotation
Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.Crop rotation confers various benefits to the soil. A traditional element of crop rotation is the replenishment of nitrogen through the use of green manure in sequence with cereals...

 plan or as a method to conserve moisture as in the summer fallow
Summer fallow
Summer fallow, sometimes called fallow cropland, is cropland that is purposely kept out of production during a regular growing season. Resting the ground in this manner allows one crop to be grown using the moisture and nutrients of more than one crop cycle...

 technique used in dryland farming
Dryland farming
Dryland farming is an agricultural technique for non-irrigated cultivation of drylands.-Locations:Dryland farming is used in the Great Plains, the Palouse plateau of Eastern Washington, and other arid regions of North America, the Middle East and in other grain growing regions such as the steppes...

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Fallow may also refer to:
  • Fallow (album)
    Fallow (album)
    Fallow is the debut album by The Weakerthans.It was released in 1997 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and in 1999 on Sub City Records in the United States....

    , a 1997 folk-punk album
  • Fallow (color)
    Fallow (color)
    Fallow is a pale brown color that is the color of sandy soil in fallow fields.Fallow is one of the oldest color names in English. The first recorded use of fallow as a color name in English was in the year 1000...

    , a pale brown color
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