Fertilizer

[Joman]

How to get fertilizer to the fields?
I have fertilizer in the farm, now what?

[melkij]

Tractors will take care of this on their own.
As far as I understand, after sowing the tractor will begin to use synthetic fertilizers, after harvesting they will go to use biological fertilizers.

Both are used very quickly, something like 24 tons per one large field.

[Joman]

OK, the default setting for fertility is 50%. Does this make sense?
Should set it to 100%?

[ryantheskinny]

Originally posted by Joman:

OK, the default setting for fertility is 50%. Does this make sense?
Should set it to 100%?

That setting tells the farm when to start sowing the field again. If you set it to 100% it will let the field rest until fertility returns to that number. This can be achieved by allowing the filed to rest for a period of time or applying fertilizer which is done automatically by the farms.

[Joman]

Oh, then I complete missinterpreted the setting.
Thanks!

[melkij]

Originally posted by melkij:

Both are used very quickly, something like 24 tons per one large field.

Oh, sorry, about 24 tons of synthetic fertilizers are sprayed in the summer for every large field, but right after the harvest, tractors come out again and use bio-fertilizers. 188 tons of fertilizer disappeared faster than the tractors processed the first two fields. When the stocks are exhausted, the tractor returns to the farm and does not touch this field during this season.

[Eilif]

So what should i expect? I had a running game before the update with 15 medium farms before the update.
Should i double the fields for those farms since some of them need rest? And should i build 1 storage tank for the fertilizer for each farm? Since some farms have driving distance to deliver fertilizers, i would need at least 4-5 large distribution office for fertilizer deliveries? And of course one extra distribution office for each farm to collect harvest, since its going to be more than 20 fields for each farm.
Or maybe its better to delete all farms and just import the crops?

[Joman]

When such a big update comes, I start a new game.
It's part of the fun for me to start over from scratch from time to time.

[melkij]

I think no one has yet managed to collect enough data on the new behavior of farms.

From what I've seen so far, it's enough to use fertilizer to get more yield from each field each year. So fewer fields are required.
Without fertilizer, yes, more fields will be required, some will not be used from time to time.