Possible Clues:

• Empty farm building accommodates soldiers
• 'Desolate, fallow (6)'
• Unproductive, as a lord is said to be
• Lord reportedly unable to have children?
• Dry and desolate
• Far from arable
• Peer is said to be childless
• Not fertile
• Not making an issue of ban about nationalist
• Doesn't make an issue in pub registered by apprentice at the centre