Grass accumulation after repeated mowings

[Farmer John 16]

Sometimes if I don't need the hay right away, I'll mow a patch of grass multiple times before I rake and bale it. It's handy to do this because then you only have to make one pass with the other equipment instead of doing it after every mowing. I know that the grass accumulates, but I would like to know more if anyone can help. Does this continue indefinitely or is there a maximum number of times this can be done? Also, does 100 percent of the grass accumulate from one mowing to the next or is there some loss. I've heard that there is some loss when raking. Does this have any affect on the amount lost when raking? Thanks for the help.

[wilmer007]

it's based on the plant growth and if you speed up time. the best way would be to set plant growth to slowest and play in real time to not speed up.

[SEANMG42]

It think it works for 2 or 3 cuts of grass it kind of dependes on the windrower you use because I think there is a cut of point to how much grass or hay that can be put in a row however I'm not certain. I get more bales when I do 2 or 3 cuts I haven't tried doing any more cuts than that. I hope this answers your question.

[Gnasher3i6]

There was a post on here a while back about windrow's.

After some testing it was found that a single windrow would only hold a certain amount, I can't remember exactly how much.
But for example, If you were to merge 3 windrows into 1 you may get all the straw/hay but if you add a 4th windrow you still only get the value of 3.

So for the original question "Does this continue indefinitely or is there a maximum number of times this can be done?"
Personally If I were to do this, I would only do it 2 time's or risk wasting time mowing grass that will likely not count when windrowed.

[Farmer John 16]

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions everybody. I've been doing a lot of the mowing missions, but I would usually do several of them before I would pick up the grass or bale it for hay. I never did take the time and check the numbers to see if I was getting it all or not. It sounds like I've probably been wasting some of it. I'll keep it to three or less mowings from now on. Thanks.

[cedricthecat]

There may have been earlier posts about windrowing (in fact, I'm sure that there will have been!) but here's one I did last August

Looking at the first post again, basic windrowing on a test field yielded 89950 litres, but aggressive windrowing (into one line) dropped this down to 29900 litres

[W1der]

I just realized that wild grass and planted grass has different yield ... At least on "hard working" map!

Btw ... When I was playing Björnholm ... I mowed 2 times ... A 3rd time didnt give me that many more bales than 2 ...

[Farmer John 16]

I did some testing on the plot where the mowing missions are on the sosnovka map. I only mowed the part that is used for the mission. I windrowed with the Top 1252 and collected with the Garant 540/2. When mowed once, the yield was 16212, twice was 29832 and three times was 31234. I also tested without windrowing and got the following yields. Once was 16230, twice was 32235 and three times was 48891. It seems that the third time is a waste when windrowed. It's not that I didn't believe you, it's just that I really wanted to see some numbers. Now I'm curious as to how many times I can mow without windrowing. There seems to be no loss up to three times. I might test that further and see.

[danielhawkins]

When you are mowing it and doing tests make sure the grass you mow for each test is at the same growth stage. Grass that has flowers on it has gone 1 stage past ripe growth and as far as i have recognised it you lose some yield in that stage. So on the growth map in the PDA a ripe crop of any type including grass is light green, the stage after it goes dark green. That is far as grass goes. What i am saying is that i have recognised more yield from grass at the light green stage than at the dark green stage. (i could be wrong as i haven't solely tested this though)

[Farmer John 16]

When I collected these numbers, I turned the plant growth off and I only mowed when the mowing mission became available. I would assume that the growth stage should of been the same every time and it always had flowers on it. I wanted to do more extensive testing, but it tuned out to be pretty time consuming and I was getting tired of all the mowing, so I took a break and went back to farming for now.

[cedricthecat]

Good point about growth stage!

I think my tests were OK as I saved the game before each test, got the figures, exited without saving, then reloaded and did the next element from effectively the same point!

[W1der]

I just realized that wild grass and planted grass has different yield ... At least on "hard working" map!

Btw ... When I was playing Björnholm ... I mowed 2 times ... A 3rd time didnt give me that many more bales than 2 ...

Hjm ...
The second time I mowed the planted grass the yield was low again ... *confused*

Would fertilizer have any effect on grass !?

[Carkrazy6499]

Would fertilizer have any effect on grass !?

No it does nothing, read the basic intro thread.

[W1der]

Would fertilizer have any effect on grass !?

No it does nothing, read the basic intro thread.

Ok ... Trying to figure out why the grass yield is much higher for the first mowe after planting a field of grass and then after the second growth season it goes back to "normal" ...