arable

Of land, able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).

• And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]

Of land, under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).

Land that can be cropped (i.e., land that is arable); land that is being cropped (i.e., land that is in the cropping phase of a crop rotation, currently being cropped rather than used as pasture or fallow).uncountableusually

• Arrangements for the drainage of this piece of arable were commenced last summer