adjective
- not having or producing a crop; without crops
Usage: commonly used in agriculture and land management contexts
Examples
- The farmer left the field cropless for a season to allow the soil to recover.
- Cropless land can be used for pasture or left fallow.
- After the drought, many acres remained cropless throughout the year.
- The cropless fields were eventually replanted with winter wheat.
- Cropless rotation is sometimes used as a soil conservation strategy.