Assume you have some temperate farmland, UK lowland like, that is under pasture, sheepwalk or cows I don't think it should matter.
How long to get a grain / vegetable crop from it?
Would the first crop, using modern methods, be above average yield or about normal?
How long to go the other way and get ploughed farmland to normally productive pasture?
Same questions for well drained but not naturally very fertile chalk land and not well drained, not very fertile moorland?
I'm wondering how flexible typical British farmland is, in connection with having to cope with import restrictions in time of war, as in 1914-18 and 39-45.
Also with a path not fully taken in 1815. Very high grain prices had led to land high on chalkland and moors being ploughed for crops. The panic action from those who had money invested was to get the Corn Laws passed but how long would it take to return those lands to (I guess) sheep?
How long to get a grain / vegetable crop from it?
Would the first crop, using modern methods, be above average yield or about normal?
How long to go the other way and get ploughed farmland to normally productive pasture?
Same questions for well drained but not naturally very fertile chalk land and not well drained, not very fertile moorland?
I'm wondering how flexible typical British farmland is, in connection with having to cope with import restrictions in time of war, as in 1914-18 and 39-45.
Also with a path not fully taken in 1815. Very high grain prices had led to land high on chalkland and moors being ploughed for crops. The panic action from those who had money invested was to get the Corn Laws passed but how long would it take to return those lands to (I guess) sheep?
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