tillage

noun3

1. •
   The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
2. •
   The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
3. •
   Land cultivated in this way.

   • Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. — 1611