sentences:  In many villages, farmers were either forced or strongly encouraged to tear down their homes and rebuild them in the middle of their new fields with the intention that this would give them easier access to every part of the field, enabling them to utilize the land more effectively.These events are known as "Landboreformerne" (the agricultural reforms) or "Udskiftningen" (the parcellation), and were instigated at the initiative of the Danish Crown to raise production.For the next century, a standard village would be composed of a series of farms, many located a distance from each other, each family working for itself producing grain and raising a few animals.