three-field system

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noun

1. Agriculture. (especially formerly) a system of crop rotation in which a village divided its shared farmland into three fields, one allowed to lie fallow and the other two planted with different crops having complementary nutritional requirements and biocontrol effects, with these three functions being rotated annually from one field to another.

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three-field system

The process improved upon older methods of crop rotation, such as the medieval three-field system discussed in Chapter 14.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

Under this new three-field system, farmers could grow crops on two-thirds of their land each year, not just on half of it.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

The three-field system was typical of farming during the Middle Ages.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

There was an agricultural revolution from the two-field system in which one field was fallow to the three-field system, in which there were three large fields for the heavy and fertile land.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly

Though the three-field system has been in use for many generations in the central provinces, the communal principle, with its periodical re-allotment of the land, still remains intact.

From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace

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