English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
利用此前未使用的农场库存和谷物账簿，提供了1750-1850年间英国农民小麦储存和销售的数据，发现小麦主要在户外草堆中储存一年以上，储存成本低且自然干燥提升品质，农民常直接卖给磨坊主。
Abstract Harnessing previously unused farm inventories and corn books, we provide data on wheat storage and sales by English farmers, 1750–1850. Wheat was predominantly stored outdoors in thatched stacks (or ‘ricks’)—often for more than a year, sometimes for multiple years—although carryover volumes were generally small. Farm stocks tended to be threshed and sold evenly across the year to meet demand. Storage costs were low, and carried over wheat sold at a premium as the natural drying process raised its quality. Wheat was frequently sold directly to millers, bypassing the open market, but private sale prices tracked market prices closely.