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Rye

A field of rye standing ripe.

Hardy corn for cold and high land. Reaped into the village barn as grain.

The share of a field’s sowings that are rye, by the land it lies in:

Land Sown as Share
Lowlands Winter corn 25%
Wet ground Winter corn 33%
Cold ground Winter corn 75%
Dry ground Winter corn 17%
Hills and high ground Winter corn 67%

Winter corn is sown in autumn and spring corn in spring; a three-field village grows both, a two-field village only the winter corn.

The lands are:

  • Lowlands: temperate forest and other mild lowland.
  • Wet ground: temperate rain forest and marsh.
  • Cold ground: taiga, tundra and snow.
  • Dry ground: steppe, shrubland and desert.
  • Hills and high ground: hills, mountains and anything above 400 m.

The tallest corn, blue-green, ripening a greyer gold. It stands about 1.3 m full grown, comes up green in spring, ripens through summer, and once cut stands as stubble with sheaves in stooks.

The year in the fields is on Harvest.