Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.Rich landowners do not normally sell their grain immediately after the harvest is in, when prices are low; instead they store it until the numerous small-scale producers have sold all theirs and prices go up again. Pig farmers keep their flitches of bacon back in storage until they can get a better price for them later in the winter. Such tactics are made even more profitable by the unhappy fact that harvests can fail, causing local—and sometimes national—food shortages.
A
They often ran out of food supplies before the end of winter came.B
They were the only food suppliers for Elizabethan England all year long.C
They cared more about making a profit than charging fair prices.D
They made little profit from the food they supplied to their communities.