Wheat farming takes too long

[Angel_Lawliet]

Please make wheat take less time to farm or please have it be harvested earlier. It doesn’t seem to matter how many farmers I have, Wheat always has some left to rot in the fields. I have tried having it harvested before everything else, I have build storage and a root cellar so they do not have to go so far for food/to put goods away, and their houses are close. The only other thing I can think of is a design flaw. I have 44 farmers across 3 12x15 fields, there should be no issues harvesting especially since nothing else is harvested or needing to be seeded during that time.

[Angel_Lawliet]

Don’t know how to edit post so adding here: it takes almost a full minute to harvest a square of wheat on x3 speed. If this could be lessened by about 5-10 seconds, it would greatly improve harvesting of wheat.

[EmpMing]

I concur even with 12 farmers on a 12 by 12 field, sometimes there is rot, and if there helping or fetching honey it leads to lots of rot

[Celebrindan]

It seems someone has added an additional, earlier, ‘Seeking Shelter’ mass order for all pax, to abandon their workstations and run home in Early to Mid September, in addition to end of ag season October.

This abandonment of production happens right in the middle of ‘last of season’ harvesting of any crop adjacent to the cutoff.

This halt in production only last as long as it takes individual pax to reach shelter and for each is then over, farmers then resuming what little is left of the ag season.

But it is enough for pax to drop/abandon everything, and wait for dropped to reenter the que for assignment.

Result: Rot

Remedy: No more holding farmers over as labor in January.

Move all crops to Early Schedules where possible.

Start the growing season asap so that harvests happen early.

Clover and Field Maintenance Only after August/September.

If you need the farmers to act as laborers release them early as you see this premature Seeking Shelter happen, rather than hold them late in Spring.