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S.E. Iowa | There are really quite a few good reasons to have a field remain fallow every seven years. Before all the commercial fertilizers and chemicals it helped break the cycles of insects and weeds. The idea wasn't that ground laid bare but that a cover crop was planted, allowed to grow for a year and then plowed down, It was probably a good practice when you consider that much of the ground was farmed for thousands of years, and yet towns and civilizations grew and prospered. Biblically resting the ground on the seventh year was much the same as man resting on the seventh day or the Sabbath. While resting on the Sabbath was renew a person's soul, resting you field every seven years helped to renew the land and productivity. Observing the Sabbath and letting you ground fallow were part of mans acknowledgment, of Him from who all blessing flow | |
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