Farmers, farmers, wherefor are thou farmers

So over the weekend I noticed suddenly the lack of spam on chat over LOTRO.  My inital thought was:

Hmm, the third-world-country farmers are on a holiday for the weekend!

But when I continue to observe their failure to return on Monday, my suspicions converge to one reason:

Turbine probably banned them.

So yea, there we have it.  No more farmers, at least for another month.

I’d imagine if this keeps up the farmers may give up and leave this game alone.  Of course, not having farmers around means that goods are again up in prices.

• Beryl from farmers: 30silver.
• Beryl from honest players on AH: 100+ silver.

Also, price for LOTRO gold must go up.  All the remaining gold would have higher demand.  I wonder if it covers the cost of the farmer having to re-train new accounts to level 50.