Field (agriculture)

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

• Cultivating crops
• Usage as a paddock or, generally, an enclosure of livestock
• Land left to lie fallow or as arable land

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]

See also

• Coastal plain
• Flooded grasslands and savannas
• Flood-meadow
• Grassland
• Meadow
• Pasture
• Plain
• Plateau
• Prairie
• Savanna
• Steppe
• Vineyard
• Water-meadow
• Wet meadow
• Veld

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