Hi everyone!

I spent a long time building up my city, but I've noticed in two different playthroughs that once I reach between 750 to 800 people all of the sudden everyone runs to the granaries and will deplete a 36 month surplus of food within a year. I mean they consume everything to the point that I go into the negatives. During this period of extreme over-consumption it seems like my production is also slashed. All of the sudden I hardly get anything from burgages (main food source) and all of my crops seem to magically disappear without being processed or being lost in winter. Is anyone else having a similar issue? It takes about 8 to 10 years to turn it around.

I'd say about 90% of all burgages are food producing, I have over 30 fields that are fully plowed, sewn, and harvested, max sheep grazing per field, crop rotation, and I was blessed by starting in a fully furtile tile. I have one field (1 Morgan each) for every family, plus a few spares, and all farms have oxen assigned to them, granaries nearby, and all farms are fully staffed. I make sure to have a couple extra farms for spare field labor. I've been monitoring harvests and my people have had no problems getting to every single field and getting their work done. Up until the moment over-consumption hits I was still producing food with enough excess that I could make it almost a full calendar year even without my massive surplus, and I'm not exporting or importing food.