Field
Farmland
noun, suffix
The kanji and the word are exactly the same. That means they share meanings as well.
You can also stick this after the name of a crop and get a ____ field.
The reading is the one you learned with the kanji.
Note when you stick this onto a type of crop to mean a ____ field, this gets rendaku'd to ばたけ.
私は、苺畑づたいにヨロヨロと歩いている老人を見かけました。
I saw an old man stumble along the strawberry field.