How Did the Black Death Affect the Farmland and Agricultural Production?

Question

In what manner and to what degree did the Black Death affect the farmland and agricultural production?

Answer 1

Since most of the population was dead, ther was more demand for people to start working. Less food was being made, so the prices for many foods went up.

Answer 2

I agree with Sheila D

I would add that another symptom of the Black Death was the demand went up causing countys to ration their food.

Answer 3

First of all the Black Death would not have affected the farmland itself at all. Agriculture production would have dropped off, but the demand for food would drop off as well with the decrease in the population.

Answer 4

Chili Pepper has it right. But more so, bubonic plague hit the towns and cities even more heavily than farmers so that labor to do farm work was reduced less than demand.

But availability of people to do work on farms was a limiting factor for  growth of population.

Part of the ongoing problem of feeding people was that farm land fertility was forever running out. Loss of so many people left more time for farm land to  recover between uses.