Questions from a real farmer

[jim&holly]

1. How come the sheep pens don't have manure..believe me..they do make a lot of manure..

2. Crop density..looking down on a field of grains..you could drop a large pizza and never touch some grain..is there a way to go in and change seed usage..

3. In America we use chopped corn for silage in a harvestor silo..is there a mod or something to make it more real for us farmers that like realism.

4. How come the chickens don't need food or water ..some maps I played they do??

[Thefisherj]

1 don't know,
2 I think it's down to textures not sure though
3 I think there are mods out there that do you what u want. But depends if you are on pc or console.

[traveler87]

3. I'm American and around me folks use silage bunkers unless they're a small farm. Fs17 is made by a European company in a place where silage is also typically made in bunkers, like plenty of other places in the world. My point is when you say 'realism' that's subjective to your interpretation of what's real. If you're on pc there are digestion silo mods u ought to check out bud

Valid points on the other things. Did you say pizza? Yum

[hpmc13]

1. I've wondered that myself.
2. There's a setting under options (from the main menu) that you can change for crop density. The exact name escapes me, but it's pretty self-evident. If you go too high expect lowered framerates.
3. Here ya go: https://www.modhoster.com/mods/fermente ... nting-silo You'll get digestate out of it too. Works with Courseplay, as well.
4. No idea. I have, however, seen real-life video of farmers spreading chicken manure so this goes with your first question as well.

[NCFarmer3842]

Here in Western North Carolina we all use bunkers for Silage I guess it's different depending on where you are. Everything else is a good point. Also HPMC I've never noticed that setting I'm going to have to check that out, Any idea if it's on console?

[redglasses]

^^Definitely not, at least not yet. We can dream though.

[NCFarmer3842]

^^ Oh well I got excited there for a minute lol

[ClassicTractors]

1. How come the sheep pens don't have manure..believe me..they do make a lot of manure..

2. Crop density..looking down on a field of grains..you could drop a large pizza and never touch some grain..is there a way to go in and change seed usage..

3. In America we use chopped corn for silage in a harvestor silo..is there a mod or something to make it more real for us farmers that like realism.

4. How come the chickens don't need food or water ..some maps I played they do??

1) Good question: oversight maybe?

2) I don’t think there is a way in game. The only thing I could think of is fertilizing the fields to get a greater in game density.

3) I think if you use a forage harvester in game, you can harvest the corn as chaff IIRC and then put it in a silo to ferment into silage.

4) I think it is because they took chickens out of the store, so I think they are moving away from tending to chickens in the game.

[redglasses]

I wish the sheep had manure, I would have a ton of it

[Azfoor]

Yea sheep do indeed poop..!

[Mobias]

The answer to question 2 is that its down to whatever crop texture the map maker uses. Some are better than others. If its the default Giants crop texture then yes it looks very sparse and not very realistic. Check out the UK maps like Chellington and The West Coast. They use custom crop textures for some crops like wheat and barley and they look far more dense and realistic.

If you're on PC then there's loads of mods like More Realistic Engine and More Realistic Gameplay that add far more realism to the game.

[jim&holly]

thank you for the replies..will look into them

[kahfs]

jim&holly: As a real farmer, you should definitely use the mod MoreRealism. It will let you define how much seed and fertilizer to use as well as harvest yield separately for each crop. Be aware, the crop yield defined is the base crop yield you will get, if you don't plough and fertilize. If you do both, you get the double yield compared to the defined yield. Hence, if you plough and fertilize 3 times, your defined yield should be half of your desired yield. However, I don't think this will change the visual density of the crop.

[jim&holly]

thanks..kahfs..will try that

[stevoxsi]

While sheep do indeed poop, it's not worth collecting to use as fertilizer (slurry) due to its consistency and low nitrogen content.