Does alfa alfa regrow?

[Azfoor]

As the title says. Does Alfa alfa regrow after harvested? Like the year after.!

[Illinois Farmer]

If it is like irl then yes.

[CowsGoMoo]

I don't know about alfa alfa, but alfalfa is just grass type. Don't know how it is treated in game, but here in the US it's mowed and dried into hay for feed.

[Chad]

So the worst word in farm Sim is " realistic". So I'm not going to say realiistic, just tell you that in my neck of the woods, a typical alfalfa crop (in Reno county KS) will get you 3-5 cutting per year. A typical alfalfa crop, in Reno county KS, will last between 5-7 years. After that, the alfalfa crop should have built up a good deal of nitrogen in the soil. So. In our area, people will typically tear up the declining alfalfa crop during the summer, and plant winter wheat in the fall. Hope this helps!

[Azfoor]

Yea I got that it regrows irl. I figured that out with Google but I'm trying to find out if it's does the same ingame before it's to late in spring to plant new!

[wombles]

Looks like your gonna have too bite the biccie and try it out Azfoor

[dimi]

If you are talking about sandy bay with seasons then i don't think so. not that i have tested it myself, but Oxygendavid didn't include a crops.xml file with custom growth patterns in the map. which means seasons treats them as barley. not a big problem for the rye but it makes the alfalfa growth pattern very unrealistic. I think this is also the reason that it is classed as a cereal crop in the rotation planner.

Now that we are talking about it anyway, does anyone know of any seasons ready maps that have alfalfa as a crop? i want to try and see if i can figure out from another map crops.xml file how to include that in sandy bay. But i haven't found a map that has it yet.

[FarmCatJenkins]

Medicine Creek I think has Alfalfa. And a custom GEO

[eric21]

Yes as it's a grass it should regrow, like sugarcane etc

[dimi]

Thank you FarmCatJenkins! i've downloaded it and indeed it has a alfalfa. It also has a crops.xml file for a custom growth patern for the alfalfa, it looks quite complicated so i will have to look into it but i hope i can use the information from that file for sandy bay.

[BreadedVirus]

Thank you FarmCatJenkins! i've downloaded it and indeed it has a alfalfa. It also has a crops.xml file for a custom growth patern for the alfalfa, it looks quite complicated so i will have to look into it but i hope i can use the information from that file for sandy bay.

If you have any luck with the file, could you let me know?

[FarmCatJenkins]

All you need to do is copy that into whatever geo you're using on Sandy Bay for each growth transition. Any questions PM me or get a hold of me on discord

[BreadedVirus]

All you need to do is copy that into whatever geo you're using on Sandy Bay for each growth transition. Any questions PM me or get a hold of me on discord

So do i drop the crops xml into the data file in the seasons GEO that i am using?

[Azfoor]

Isn't it possible to make it behave like grass?

[FarmCatJenkins]

All you need to do is copy that into whatever geo you're using on Sandy Bay for each growth transition. Any questions PM me or get a hold of me on discord

So do i drop the crops xml into the data file in the seasons GEO that i am using?

Depends on if you like the growth of everything else. Easiest thing would be to have both crops.xml files open and copy the alfalfa from Medicine Creek into your current one for each growth index