1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Ffallowe Ffallowe or tylth: of lande, called the somer fallowe or tylth.

1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden v. 36 He would advice Mr. Houghton not to venture his Summer fallow at Autumn..; besides, he did much disapprove the laying sheep upon it..as he intended to do last May as soon as it was cut.

1716 N. Covert & W. Bohun Scrivener's Guide (ed. 3) II. 526 Shall and will leave Yearly..one half of the said Arable Land as a Summer Fallow unsown.

1741 A. Blackwell New Method improving Cold, Wet, & Barren Lands vi. 36 Lay the Ashes out upon a summer Fallow.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 990 The sowing of the fallow-crop on the summer-fallow is delayed to autumn.

1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Aug. 410/2 The wild oat..lay dormant in some fields until this more favourable season when it has made a most unwelcome appearance on certain summer fallows.

1954 Implements & Meth. Tillage to control Soil Blowing (U.S. Dept. Agric., Farmer's Bull. No. 1797) 8 The spring-tooth harrow..is popular in many parts of the northern Great Plains, especially for cultivating clean summer fallow.

2010 Weed Technol. 24 102/1 By 2001, flaxleaf fleabane was found in 21% of summer fallows.

1601 God speede Plough sig. B^v Set and Ploughed crosse, & laied in a Summer fallow.

a1670 S. Collins Systeme Anat. (1685) i. i. iv. 38 Whereupon Summer Fallows, do fæcundate the Earth.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vii. 36 This sort of Hoing has..every Year the Effect of a Summer-fallow.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 143 The ill consequence of not giving it a summer-fallow to clean the ground thoroughly.

1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 85 The quantity of ground under Summer-fallow this year.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 340/1 That prolonged form of it [sc. the fallowing process] called a summer or naked fallow.

1917 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 27 7 This means the elimination of summer fallow and better utilization of other land.

1974 J. J. Sampson et al. Soil Surv. Adams County, Colorado (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 71/2 Summer fallow is a common stage before cereal grain in regions of limited rainfall.

2010 Ecol. Applic. 20 526/2 Activities on existing farmlands have intensified through..diminished use of summer fallow, a practice of leaving land uncropped for an entire growing season.

1601 E. Maxey New Instuction Plowing & Setting sig. E2 The land, according to the vse of the common fields, doth lie sommer fallow the first yeere.

1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 105 The months of November and December were very favourable for getting the Summer-fallow land seed-furrowed.

1830 N.-Y. Farmer & Hort. Repository Jan. 16/1 The ‘summer fallow crops’, are spring crops sown or planted upon a sod ploughed in autumn or spring, and intended to be followed by wheat or barley and grass.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 999 I..trenched 13 acres of my summer-fallow break in the months of June and July.

1919 B. Hunter Dry Farming for Better Wheat Yields 21 Summer-fallow land should always be sown to winter wheat if sufficient rain comes to..get the wheat up in good season in the fall.

1969 Jrnl. Mammalogy 50 476 A summer-fallow field bordered the north side.

2001 Farm Jrnl. Mar. (Special Feature Page) 41/2 Wolf uses the rig for..spraying summer-fallow land and for topdressing wheat.

1625 G. Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 10 Sow it with Wheat, or otherwise Summer-fallow it, in the May after the Oates.

1700 N. Covert & W. Bohun Scrivener's Guide (ed. 2) 326 Such Land as shall be Summer fallowed for Wheat, for which nothing shall be paid in such year of Summer fallowing.

1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus Sept. 2 It is unreasonable that the new Farmer should lose the Benefit of that Ground for that Year, which he must do, unless he can Summer-fallow when others do.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xiii. 244 The English writers on agriculture, when giving directions about the opening up of grass-ground, always suppose that the land is to be summer-fallowed.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 158 In the division of Meshaw, it is common to plough clean before Christmas, and summer-fallow for wheat.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 990 That part of the fallow-break which is summer-fallowed.

1872 Rep. Indian Affairs 1871 (U.S.) 230 It is my intention, during the coming season, to..summer-fallow as much of the old land as can be spared from cultivation.

1943 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 46 110 The field had been summer-fallowed the year prior to the seeding.

1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) ix. 277 Fields most seriously affected by wireworms are those planted the first year after being summer fallowed.

2001 High Plains Jrnl. 16 Apr. b8/4 If you are staying with wheat next year or planning to summerfallow in that field, I would put on something like Finesse.