Farmers ploughing fields twice a year, am I doing something wrong?

[intruth]

After harvest, rather than threshing, my farmers are going out and re-ploughing the fields before the start of winter. They don't finish the entire field before winter hits, when they finally stop ploughing and start threshing. Then in spring the field resets to unploughed and they have to plough it again, which makes the winter ploughing seem a complete waste of time!

Am I doing something wrong, or is it bugged somehow?

[Ronin]

How big is your field/fields?

Your fields/field has to match your population size, otherwise it won't be worked in time for Winter.

If you plant a single field in October, it will be 100% ready for harvest by the next September. They will start by plowing it, then sowing it. As long as it's planted before December and the cold sets in, the crops will be growing underground. When September comes, they will start Harvesting. Only once the entire harvest is collected, will they start plowing it, then sowing it again. Then the cycle begins again. If you have 1 huge field at the start, it will be unlikely for them to do all of these steps in time. If however you divide 1 field into 3 sections, as soon as 1 field is plowed, some farmers will start sowing whilst the second field is plowed. If you are using a three field system, with one field always fallow, you can also have 3 families working on each field when September comes.

[DeckardTrinity]

I've been building my fields to a size of 1.4 - 1.6 morgen each. That seems to give one family enough time to prep one field fully for harvest per year, with additional time if you boost with the Ox on the town level up screen.

[Xbwalker]

I don't think you guys read his complaint. Yes, mine also do this. They finish harvesting the crop, place it in their farmhouse, then run back out and start clearing the field/planting. I think this is a bug. It's annoying too because it hurts your fertility a bit when they do it, not to mention the months of time lost.

I'm sure the dev is aware of this bug.

[Karcel]

Increase thrashing priority to max.

[WalrusJones]

So if they replough and plant the crops will not sprout in that season, but will sprout next spring.

I know this *WAS* actually a custom known as something like the winter wheat in some regions.

Whats odd about this is that usually this results in like, an early summer harvest but here its harvested in fall, so this behavior is oddly underpowered compared to real life.

[Daveski]

Originally posted by Karcel:

Increase thrashing priority to max.

This effects nothing for me. I even put the fields to low and still they leave the wheat sitting there for ages. It would be nice to just have a separate building for threshing so it can get worked on immediately

[astator]

Yea, looks like a bug to me. The description of "Winter" season does mention plowing and sowing but then progress reset at beginning of spring. Does not make sense. Since there are several other obvious bugs, I can safely assume this is also one.

[El Cid]

same problem

[WalrusJones]

Originally posted by Daveski:

Originally posted by Karcel:

Increase thrashing priority to max.

This effects nothing for me. I even put the fields to low and still they leave the wheat sitting there for ages. It would be nice to just have a separate building for threshing so it can get worked on immediately

A more organic way for this to work is mill workers will stop by the farmhouse and thresh when the mill is idle.

[andrew]

yes mine are doing this also, definitely a bug. crop rotation is two years fallow one year cropped, if they finish harvesting all the fields in September they then go back and try and plough those same fields in September. then in October those fields revert back to fallow and the farmers go off and plough the next cycles fields that they are supposed too.

[Poge]

If you managed to done both plowing/sowing at 100% until December that farm plot survive the winter, not only survive they growth!
https://imgur.com/v3hDyof

This progress is not reset at march and you can get 100% growth rate before September.

In my experience with having 8 farming families is enough to done this for 2.0 morgen farms. (1.0 morgen plot x2)

[hasebrudi]

after harvest make them fallow until all is treshed then make wheat again

[intruth]

Originally posted by Poge:

If you managed to done both plowing/sowing at 100% until December that farm plot survive the winter, not only survive they growth!
https://imgur.com/v3hDyof

Yes on second playthrough this works. The farmers are just trying to get the crop planted before winter, if they succeed it saves a lot of time in spring. The only annoying aspect is if they don't manage to get the sowing/plowing to 100% it resets it to 0%.

[KotMatroskin]

I have the same question. Field is set on crop rotation: Wheat, Fallow, Fallow
- first year plow and planted Wheat
- second year in Sep Wheat is harvested, and while it's still September, they plow the field (which makes 0 sense because it's going to rotate into Fallow in October)

Is there some reason they plow it after harvesting?

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by KotMatroskin:

I have the same question. Field is set on crop rotation: Wheat, Fallow, Fallow
- first year plow and planted Wheat
- second year in Sep Wheat is harvested, and while it's still September, they plow the field (which makes 0 sense because it's going to rotate into Fallow in October)

Is there some reason they plow it after harvesting?

Yep, they do that. I just pretend they are plowing the old crop under preparatory to it laying fallow the coming year, but it's probably just sloppy code.

It doesn't hurt anything, and when October comes, they always plow and plant the correct fields, so I just let them do it. I don't want to unassign them because they might just wander off and go do something else for half a month.