What inference can be made about both rich landowners and pig farmers, based on this excerpt?
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They often ran out of food supplies before the end of winter came.
They were the only food suppliers for Elizabethan England all year long.
They cared more about making a profit than charging fair prices.
They made little profit from the food they supplied to their communities.
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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.