Has anyone done a workup on fertilizers?

[Jackson]

I'm curious about a few things. I know that fertilizer is cheaper if you go get it rather than pulling it out of tanks on your farm or having workers "buy" it. However has anyone done up a cost comparison to see exactly what the differences are? Is it going to be worth my time to place the tanks on my farm so I can fill from there rather than having workers buy it? That sorta thing. I don't see myself funning and collecting pallets : /

[rhwilson1953]

I don't understand why you would need to fertilize 3 times during the crops growth cycle.

I guess farming has changed a lot since I last did it in the 1975 - 1982. I worked for a farm owner which had 2500 acres (607 hectares) of marsh land along the Kankakee river in northwestern Indiana. So there wasn't many rocks. We went and got the seed by the pallet in March, fertilizer was delivered by the semi tanker trailer, 11,600 US gallons or 43,900 liters. We would get 2 loads before planting season while frost was still in the ground so the roads could handle the weight. Sometimes we had seed or fertilizer left over or we sometimes had to get some more.

If the ground needed lime to "sweeten" it we did that in the winter. Not all of the acreage needed it every year.

We would plant, then a custom service would spray herbicide.

Then when the corn got up about 3 to 6 inches tall, we would go out with a rotary hoe. It would toss the small weeds up and they would land on top of the soil and die as long as there wasn't rain to beat the roots back into the ground.

When the corn got about a foot high we would run a cultivator which only worked the ground between the rows. After that we would spray pesticide, then be done until harvest. Corn required the most work in the spring. We would have everything planted by the middle of June.

My grandfather and dad said the corn had to be knee high by the 4th of July, other wise the frost would kill it off before full maturity.

What we used to work the ground in the spring was called plows, chisel plows, vibra-shanks and disks.

Disk in fall after the field was harvested, plow 200 to 400 acres before deep freeze. If we got snow on the ground before it froze it was said to put nitrogen in the ground when it was plowed under. Never really checked that old timers saying, though.

Use a chisel plow on the rest in the spring, then plant. If the ground had soybeans the previous year we would use a vibra-shank, and then plant. Simple and quick. Three of us would get planting done in 4 to 6 weeks, weather permitting.

Just before I left farming the trend was starting towards minimum tillage.

[KayDawg13]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von rhwilson1953:

I don't understand why you would need to fertilize 3 times during the crops growth cycle.....

We would plant, then a custom service would spray herbicide.

Then when the corn got up about 3 to 6 inches tall, we would go out with a rotary hoe. It would toss the small weeds up and they would land on top of the soil and die as long as there wasn't rain to beat the roots back into the ground.

When the corn got about a foot high we would run a cultivator which only worked the ground between the rows. After that we would spray pesticide....

you pretty much just described spraying twice and weeding. there isn't a pesticide or herbicide in game but farmers in real life have to spray the fields a few times for different reasons so in game it is all just represented as fertilizing which increases the yeild for each application.
there will be mods that will change it up to using pesticides and whatever else.

[Tiger]

soil mod from 2015 would be a good example of the more detailed needs of the farming that was described.

[Jackson]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SMcGgamer:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jack:

You're probably right. I'll think on that.


On another subject, diesel tanks seem to be missing from the farm. I've not seen a real life farm without one! (not that I've seen more than half a dozen in any detail).

http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=gb&mod_id=55432&title=fs2017
Haven't tested it yet, but looks good ^^

Excellent catch! Thanks :)

[Rev Counter]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jack:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SMcGgamer:

http://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=gb&mod_id=55432&title=fs2017
Haven't tested it yet, but looks good ^^

Excellent catch! Thanks :)

No problem! :D

[RuzzP]

just use a weeder for all stages, nice and cheap, lol

[Tiger]

and pretty much unrealistic