Months had passed since Marcellus initially reunited the borders of the Western Roman Empire, and now the Spring Harvest had begun. After Marcellus' introduction of agricultural technology, there were a myriad of skeptics in the Western Roman Empire. However, as the farmers tended to their fields and pulled their crops from the earth, they realized just how much their crop yields had grown.
Not only was there a 25% increase in crops from the extra planting of the three field system, but with the heavy plow, and the horse yoke, Farmers were able to plant substantially larger plots of land in a much shorter time. Thus, with the larger fields, and the three-field systems combined, the crop yields of the Western Roman Empire were larger than ever before in history.
