Farming

Farthest Frontier Official Farming Guide

General Tips

 * The first year after building a field focus on 2-3 seasons of field maintenance (or 2x field maintenance + 1x clovers if the fertility is low)) so that the next year you can setup your proper 3 year rotation without having to worry about getting the field state to normal levels over many rotations
 * Offset the crop rotation on your different fields so that you have a steady flow of resources every year


 * Consider the timing of your different crops and when they keep your farmers busy. The start of a crop season is busy with planting, the end with harvesting - so you want to make sure your farmers don't have too many conflicting things to do at any one point of the year across all your fields


 * Crops have a time in the year they should be planted in due to temperature. Wheat for instance can only be planted later in the spring or it will freeze, so (in the case of wheat) you should make sure your farmers use that early spring time to do something else.


 * Every crop has a preferred soil composition - so you want to plant similar (or close) soil preferences in the same fields


 * Crops that have a high weed suppression will not require more than 1 field maintenance season per 3-year rotation, so you can instead focus on clover seasons to keep the fertility high). Likewise crops that have a low weed suppression will require (usually) 2 seasons of field maintenance per 3-year rotation


 * Rockiness Resilience is really only an important trait if you intend to plan immediately after your field is built, as you can get the rockiness down to 0 quite quickly by only performing field maintenance for the first year or two, and it will stay low with very little maintenance after that