English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon

Economic History Review, 2022, vol. 75, issue 3, 932-959

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.

Date: 2022
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