When their meager harvest came in, desperate for cash, they would sell most of it at fire-sale prices, when, if they could just wait six months, they could get 50 percent more.
수확량도 적은데 급전까지 필요하면,  이마저도 헐값에 팔아야 하죠. 6개월만 더 기다린다면 50% 더 받을 수 있는데 말이에요.