This is a good thread but... Why do people always assume that livestock farmers aren't aware of the needs of the landscapes that support their stock? Why would medieval farmers NOT be aware of vital information like this for ensuring their livelihoods? https://twitter.com/DrSueOosthuizen/status/1250097772134531074 …
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These aren't modern sub/urban folks who have little to no idea what's going on agriculturally. These were people who were very intimately linked to the land and their communities. (Also, tragedy of the commons MY WHITE ASS)
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Farmers walk our fields, we watch what's happening, we share information among each other. There's no reason to believe that medieval farmers wouldn't have also done these things.
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Because these are things you have to know in order to continue to farm. You have to be aware of the land and the ways its needs change over the course of the year in general, and you have to have the ability to adapt to an unusual year.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
Curious - do you know of anything medieval farmers didn't know, which would have made a significant difference in their farming practices? (Rather than, obviously, technological advances like veterinary surgery or soil testing.)
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Obviously, they saw and reacted logically to symptoms, but they didn't have all the underlying science we have, like the germ theory of disease, and I'm curious what the limits of their symptom-based investigation were.
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Without any textual sources from farmers themselves, we don’t know what they didn’t know, unfortunately. But generally what they did know is usually a lot more than we modern people give them credit for.
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