fallowing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fallow

noun

1. A period during which a field is left fallow.

   “The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.”