Algolei
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Oh, you came back!
Anybody know of any message boards where people get together to talk about medieval crop yields and other crazy-in-the-details RPG stuff?
I can't figure out the oats yields at all, though. Very low, no matter how I've looked at it. I think a decent wheat yield in a year with a poor oats yield is a signal of a certain weather pattern, but I can't remember anything about that. My friend the farmer moved on a few years ago, now I've got no one I can phone at 3 a.m. to ask.
...because 3 a.m. is when all my questions seem most important, of course.

Anybody know of any message boards where people get together to talk about medieval crop yields and other crazy-in-the-details RPG stuff?
Yeah, that's true. I do have a prior assumption too, of course. Other records from similar areas a century or two later.tarchon said:It's quite possible, but it makes the passage essentially useless as evidence for crop yields since this reading requires a prior assumption of a yield value.
I can't figure out the oats yields at all, though. Very low, no matter how I've looked at it. I think a decent wheat yield in a year with a poor oats yield is a signal of a certain weather pattern, but I can't remember anything about that. My friend the farmer moved on a few years ago, now I've got no one I can phone at 3 a.m. to ask.
...because 3 a.m. is when all my questions seem most important, of course.