Wheat?

[Admiral General]

What is the point of farming wheat if all I can do is sell it? Why can't we make bread with it? Love the game but it needs more crafting

[Tregon]

It might be coming later. But you can also use it to feed chickens. They consume fodder, oat, wheat or corn.

Fodder you will not be able to produce early on. Oat you want to mash and turn to booze. Corn can be cooked or fed to pigs too.

Wheat had absolutely no other use, so setting up a small wheat field that gives enough harvest to feed chickens and seeds to plant field next year gives you chicken food without losing anything beyond some work.

[Stitch Jing]

Feeding chicken with wheat is far more easier than using fodder, as the Feeding pan of Chicken have limited space. When you have 30 chickens, you will see the benefits of feeding chicken with wheat grains rather than feeding self made fodder.

Eg: The pan can hold 100 wheat grains while can only contain 30-50 bags of fodder. Each chicken will eat 1 unit of wheat grain or fodder. Those sharp beaks will sweep away all the food in the pan very fast.

[Primus]

A chicken consumes about 1 unit of fodder, or several units of wheat per day. 1 unit of wheat yields 1 unit of fodder, so it is more efficient for feeding chickens. Straw from wheat can be also converted to fodder at a ratio of 1:1. Very profitable. Of course the fodder machine (plus the small motor) is not cheap, but in my opinion a very good investment, since you can also convert 5 units of fresh grass to 1 unit of fodder. 1 liter of fuel can convert 285 units of grass to 57 units of fodder. So, I strongly recommend investing in a fodder machine as a primary goal, as it completely eliminates the problem of feeding animals.

[hdridehrd]

Yup and the hay sells for 1 each the fodder is 6 I believe. I make a ton of money growing wheat and oats just to convert the hay into fodder I just store the grains for future planting I make so much off the fodder.