User:Gilderien/Field
In agriculture, the word field refers generally to an area of land enclosed or otherwise and used for agricultural purposes such as:
- Cultivating crops
- Usage as a paddock or, generally, an enclosure of livestock
- Land left to lie fallow or as arable land
History
The earliest known field system is the Céide Fields found near Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland.[1]
Fields as a habitat
Fields are a habitat for many creatures, such as
locusts. These are commonly seen as a pest and the owner of a field infested with such creatures may use pesticide or insecticide
in an attempt to remove them.
Language
In Australian and New Zealand English, any agricultural field may be called a paddock. If stock are grazed there, the space may be called a run, e.g. sheep run; cattle run.[2]
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A green field or paddock with Hereford cattle. -
A summer field. -
Two women in a field. -
Sown fields in anopen field systemof farming. -
A rare green summer fields (San Ildefonso, Bulacan)
See also
- Coastal plain
- Flooded grasslands and savannas
- Flood-meadow
- Grassland
- Meadow
- Pasture
- Plain
- Plateau
- Prairie
- Savanna
- Steppe
- Timeline of agriculture and food technology
- Vineyard
- Water-meadow
- Wet meadow
- Veld
References
Notes
- ^ "Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland". Céide Fields Visitor Centre. Mayo Ireland Ltd. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
- ^ The Macquarie Dictionary run n. Def. 113