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Summer fallow

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land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds.

See also: Summer



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Right now, if farmers took the fertilizer away nothing would grow--some of these farmers don't summer fallow anymore, just fertilize year after year--and the fertilizer is damaging.
Now, farmers have large four-wheel-drive tractors that pull 60 to 100 feet of summer fallow.
Guy Rutter hosted the event at Garmondsway, near Coxhoe, and was available to discuss the everyday aspects of establishing and managing options such as arable field margins, over-wintered stubbles followed by summer fallow or low input spring cereals, conservation headlands and wildlife mixes.
 
 
 
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