Field (agriculture)

Field (agriculture)

In agriculture, the word field refers generally to an area of land enclosed or otherwise and used for agricultural purposes such as:

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  • A green field or paddock with Hereford cattle.

  • A summer field.

  • Two women in a field.

  • Sown fields in an open field system of farming.

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.[1]

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Notes

  1. ^ The Macquarie Dictionary run n. Def. 113

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