stubble field
Post-harvest bare ground
A stubble field is farmland after harvest, covered with the short stalks left behind when grain crops are cut.
The rough, dry stubble remains until the field is plowed under or grazed by livestock: Pheasants scattered across the stubble field as we approached.
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- chaffProtective seed coverings
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
- harvestGathering mature crops
- grassfieldOpen land with turf
soil · straw · crunch · threshing · partridge · mulching · aftermath · fallow land · pheasant · autumn · stalk · cover crops · handpicking · combine harvester · crop rotation · furrow · agrarian society · rural landscape
land cultivation status
stubble fieldfallow field
Land deliberately left unplanted
wilderness · virgin land · pastureland · meadow · forest
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