Why cant my distribution office emty the crops at the farms?

[Fisken]

I cant get it to work, why is that?

[Topher]

Pretty sure the only thing that can enter crops to a farm building are covered trucks depot´d in the farm. Better to build a silo and send the DO office trucks to drop off there

[Fisken]

Hmm I was hoping I could use train to load directly from the farm, so I was hoping I could use the DO to speed things up a bit, so O could use more bigger fields and more machins in the farm insted.

[Silent_Shadow]

Just use bigger/more farm buildings instead of distribution offices, as they are cheaper per parking spot and better overall.

Reasons why discussed here.

[Bailing_Out]

Might not work but I am going to try it. Buy more tractors and harvesters, no trucks, you can have more fields this way especially if you have the large mod farm. Build 4 or 5 distribution offices, you can use the pioneer distro office mod, free and you can build 10 of them LOL. Send the trucks from the distro offices to get the crops from the field. I know you can send extra trucks to the fields that are not in the farm, I've done it. Those trucks can take the crops wherever you want, a nearby warehouse where a train awaits.

I may try this as well. I might make a field in the editor and add the forklift road to it so it can join with a loading station. if that can be done then a train might be able to do it.

[Fisken]

It would make things easyer to if the silo was an acticv building that pulls and puches.

[Silent_Shadow]

It can be. Just park a small vehicle there with two stops: Load crops, Unload crops. Buildings with export storage will lose crops and buildings with import storage will gain crops.

[Fisken]

well if the farm pushes in to the midel solo and fills the 2 next to it, it dont pull when the train is loading

[Silent_Shadow]

Depends on how you set it up.

[Mudkest]

You can use the factory connections of the farm. Attach a road cargo station to the farm, and DO can pick up crops that are in the farm from there.

Any grain silos that are connected to the farm but not the cargo stations will not be emptied this way though. But what you can do, is connect farm and grain silos to the road cargo station, have 1 DO pick up crops from fields and deliver to the cargo station(crops will be stored at the farm and grain silos connected) and another DO pick up from that cargo station.

[Fisken]

Sounds like a lot of unnesesert husel, why not just be abul to pull from the farm whit the train cargostation and the silos connected to the farm emtyes at the same time?

[Bailing_Out]

Okay, I am using distro office covered trucks to get the crops from the field, works great and I get more tractors and harvestors on the farm so I can do more fields. I deliver to the silo from the fields and other distro office trucks take it to the food/alcohol plants. Works great but I couldn't buy that many trucks if I hadn't already made money from fuel/bitumen. Took awhile to get the oil going cause it was not near the border