after-croppingn.

1586 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1995) (modernized text) X. 123 Not hurting the lands with overmuch after cropping.

1805 R. W. Dickinson Pract. Agric. II. xi. 770 The after croppings, when they are taken, are constantly kept separate from the others.

1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. ii. 112 More on this after cropping another time.

1892 J. Mavor et al. Labour Colonies 55 The after cropping and cultivation are very much the same as would be adopted on a similar farm of moss land in Scotland.

1910 Proc. New Jersey State Hort. Soc. 189 In my opinion a penny saved by this inter-cropping is a dollar lost in the after-cropping of the asparagus.

1999 J. D. Mansvelt & M. J. van der Lubbe Checklist for Sustainable Landscape Managem. iv. 145 After-cropping, alley-cropping and mixed-cropping are examples of spatial and temporary alternations, always chosen according to crop- and soil-specific cycles, needs and gifts.