Fallow

This field is fallow.

That fallow paddy field does not yield anymore.

Every seven years we let the land lie fallow.

But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

My field has turned into fallow land.

Our lands were left fallow.

Their field has not been used, it has been left fallow.

By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.

a fallow period in one's career

After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.