Thanks for the post. This game, I am keeping my population to 10 until I get to fishing.

However, it definitely wasn't a graphic issue. I had a 16 population for a long time with the farm. Once the food graphics disppeared, I went to making a lot of food, to a big loss rate that never slowed down. Even more so, the fact that the 12 villagers never stopped getting water from the well (vs going to the food bin to deposit) was stranger.