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On the Prairies it requires a three way division of land, one-third summerfallowed, one-third sown on spring plowing or in grass, and one-third sown on the previous year's summerfallow.
Food 1946
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We paid the farmer $4.00 an acre to increase his summerfallow and grasslands and $2.00 an acre to increase his feed grains.
Food 1946
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When the seed is sown after summerfallow or cultivated crops, it is usually considered preferable to make the seed-bed without using the plow, but to this there may be some exceptions.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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He plans to summerfallow the acreage this summer and then plant a winter wheat cover crop on it this fall under the UDSA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
unknown title 2009
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