Misharvest

The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.

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In those farming systems the use of livestock is handy or even important as a security against misharvest or other misfortune, but is not a precondition for cultivation (Bosman and Moll, 1995).

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Then there were misharvests. Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.

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Furthermore, the population in the Finnish countryside faced hardship in the aftermath of a serious misharvest and hunger catastrophe in the early 1860s.

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