Depends on where in the Realms. Goldenfields is better than modern hydroponic, a scratch-subsistence farm in the Savage North windswept wilderlands is worse than feudal-era tillage. The Dales and "downland" Cormyr and Sembia are better than modern real-world now…FOR now…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) 2 maggio 2018
2 of 2/…because the land isn't yet exhausted of nutrients and the farmers know how to rotate, leave fallow years, manure/compost all their own wastes, and plant plough-in crops to rejuvenate. Coastal farms spread seaweed and fishguts on the fields, and so on. Av. yield: FR=now
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) 2 maggio 2018