Sprayer or fertilizer or both?

[Maverick_ITA]

sprayer and fertilizer do the same thing like in old fs?

[ih8uall]

yes

[Dertin]

i can just imagine that the non liquid fertilizer you throw all over the place is not as efficient as the spreay one as you fertilize some areas twice or multiple times as you drive above the field. they have like a drop? shape and fertilize this area every tick so you may use up more of it then you actually need.

[Maverick_ITA]

and what about that stuff similar to a cultivator that is used after seeding in the first growth state?

[Zourin]

They are different, but are optimal in different uses.

Solid fertilizer is best used with the Sowers that also fertilize. Using a spreader ultimately consumes a LOT more fertilizer per hectare.

Sprayers are more effective as an 'alone' fertilizer, since they have much wider operating lengths than even spreaders, and it takes less liquid fertilizer to do a field than to use solid fertilizer with a spreader.

Weeders are strange right now. They can fertilize at any stage at no material cost, by bug or by feature. By even stranger bug/feature, the more expensive weeder doubles as a radish seeder, and somehow immediately raises a field to level 3 fertilization with one pass.

[Maverick_ITA]

ok, ty all

[Zourin]

There's also using radishes to fertilize.. but it's garbage in terms of time and cost since you have to wait for the crop to grow then re-sow and seed all over again. It's midly useful if you want to "desync" your fields so they're not all ready for harvest at the same time.

This ultimately does nothing better than fertilizing and cultivating a field in advance and waiting a few hours, and make you pay more in wages for hired help and seeds.

[jdguil]

I think using a cover crop makes sense if you want to roleplay as an organic farmer. Cultivate in the cover crop for the first fertilization. Then weed for the second. Then spread manure or slurry for the third. But as Zourin writes, I don't think this is the most economical way to fertilize in the game.

[margalus]

All fertilizers yield the exact same results. There is no difference

[Joe Pascal]

I do find sprayimg is faster with the long booms.

[Zourin]

Originally posted by margalus:

All fertilizers yield the exact same results. There is no difference

The differences are in costs and time.