Michael Eavis, founder of the event normally held on his farm on the last full weekend of June, told the BBC: "It's like a fallow year in farming terms.
The site also provides a comprehensive glossary on farming terms.
Ordering seeds, planning out the field, organizing crop rotations, companion planting, soil amendments... a glossary of farming terms and techniques swirled through my head as I spent countless hours alone in the field.
In Uganda the government has sponsored campaigns mixing messages of fear with advocacy of spousal faithfulness, or "zero grazing," a farming term familiar to Ugandans.
Dave, who's 67 and fit as a fiddle, even though he doesn't play one, was on his hands and knees, holding a little plastic doohickey (a farming term meaning "doohickey") that contained carrot seeds.
According to the USDA, an unnamed Oregon farmer noticed some volunteer wheat plants ("volunteer" is the farming term for a crop seed from previous years, which germinates and grows in a place where it was not intentionally planted) growing in his wheat field, so he sprayed them with RoundUp herbicide, which is designed to kill anything green and growing.
Contents include adjectives (he/it is [adj]), farm terms, verbs (i.e. I/you/he [verb] you, him, it), body parts (my/your/his [body part]), weather/temperature terms, household objects/foods, kinship terms.
But, as I've had previous occasion to note, the idiom endures, along with a barnful of other farm terms about lost or distant practices, that demonstrate a mosaic reality of language.
Even in this digital era, consider how many farm terms color everyday speech: roll in the hay, no spring chicken, barnstorming, horse of a different color, eating our seed corn, cow-eyed, 'til the cows come home.
In this study, we examined influences of two types of bullfrog farm (termed simple and elaborate farm enclosures) on the establishment of feral populations of this species in 137 water bodies in 66 plots in four provinces of China.
"What we have to do is to winnow through the marine species; and those that are the best targets for wild fisheries may not be the best species for us to farm long-term".
