Currently I am sort of following the plan below which I found on the boards
Group 1: Wheat, Alfalfa, Barley, Oat, Soybean
Group 2: Corn, Rice, Rye, Sunflower
Group 4: Radish, Turnip, Celery, Broccoli, Snowpea, Fava Bean, Chard, Cabbage
Plant Group 1 around 1st week March. Apply 7* Fert+ when growth rate is above 5%. DO NOT fertilize this crop again.
Plant Group 2 same day Group 1 is harvested. Apply 7* Fert+. DO NOT fertilize this crop again.
Plant Group 4 same day Group 2 is harvested. DO NOT fertilize, the growth rate will be terrible. It will be around October before growth rates will be good enough to justify fertilizing.
My question is that is this a good plan in general and would this plan also work if I wanted to grow my own feed. I lost my chicken when I messed up during my hibernation period but I plan to add some soon again. It will take a while but eventually I want to be growing my own feed and want to plan out how many tiles of land I will need eventually if I want to make my own optimal organic feed.
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This plan is work for me with some modification. I applied 7* Org. Fertilizer Extra to my crops, and give my livestocks the 7* Optimum Feed.
ReplyDeleteIf you have only 12 chickens/rabbits, it's easier to manage because they need only 576 feed per year (one plot for each type of cereal). You'll manage to grow your own optimum feed with only 5 plots of land.
But, if you have other livestocks additional to 12 chicken/rabbits, you have to have a lot of land to grow your feed. Alternatively, you can grow corn during summer; snowpeas during winter and make Extra Productivity Feed. By this way, you can manage to have a very huge population of 4* livestock with +105% productivity bonus with only 3 plot of lands. cheers :)
Like what ajoo said, you will need a lot of plot, then you need silo to hold. You will also need to upgrade the silo on freshess and endurance to the max. If you do not have a sufficiently mature enough farm, livestock will easily slow your porgress.
ReplyDeleteI have also followed the above plan and find it to be good so far. Previously, with only OFP 7*, I planted garlic during winter. This winter with OFE 7*, I'm planting turnips.
ReplyDeleteI do preventive spraying on all of them to ensure a successful 7* crop. A double infection of either fungi/pest will screw your whole feed production since if one of the cereals falls to 6* or lower, you can't make 7* optimum feed (or optimum organic feed) unless you can replace them with market-bought cereals.
My cows and chicken have reached 7* about 2 weeks ago. I started with 10 plots in spring but have later on added 2 more plots since I got some extra cash. I'm feeding them optimum feed only, maybe later I will try for optimum organic feed.
thanks for the advice everyone.
ReplyDeletePerk which upgrade improves freshness? I see 2 upgrades available on my silo: Amateur techniques and Equipment upgrade, but am not sure what each upgrade achieves.
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Amateur techniques is to improves the freshness of products; while Equipment upgrade is for endurance saving.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ajoo.
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