How To Use Farmville Crop Rotation For A Quick Start In The Game
Are you not satisfied with your Farmville farm? Maybe you just started playing, and you can’t seem to gain levels fast enough. All your friends have huge farms with plenty of crops and animals – even hay wagons and ponds – but you don’t even have a cow.
If you can relate to the previous scenario, the first thing you need to do is not get discouraged. By the time you’re finished reading, you’ll have secret knowledge that will help you to afford that whitewash fence, as well plenty of other expensive items! It’s fast, easy and can even be done while you’re sleeping!
The secret is a Farmville technique that’s somewhat based off of a real-life agricultural system called crop rotation. It works a bit differently in Farmville than it does in the real world, though, so all you really need to know is that Farmville crop rotation helps you make the highest weekly profit as possible from your crops.
Before we delve into the details of the system, you need to know that it has two prerequisites, which are that you sleep eight hours a night and that you have a pretty good amount of time each day to play Farmville.
Here’s how it works: When you wake up in the morning, plant and harvest strawberries all throughout the day. Strawberries take four hours to mature, so assuming that you’re awake for 16 hours during the day, and that you plant them immediately after waking up, your farm will yield four strawberry harvests per day.
Four strawberry harvests will net you 2,240 coins in a day if you’re planting and harvesting on 16 plots. The catch, though, is that only 640 coins out of that 2,240 coins is profit because you have to subtract 10 coins for the seeds and 15 coins for plowing per every plot you plant.
In terms of profit per hour, strawberries are the most valuable during the starting levels (1-4) because they make 6.25 coins per hour. All the other crops that are available during these levels make less than 6.25 coins per hour: eggplants make 1.37, wheat makes 4, soybeans make 2 and peanuts make 3.63. But if you want to check the math for yourself, the formula for determining the amount of profit per hour is: (Sell Price of Crop – Seed Cost of Crop) / Number of Hours Required for Crop to Mature. One important thing to remember when using this formula is that if a crop takes a day to mature, that’s actually 23 hours and not 24 hours, since Farmville days are 23 hours long.
The actual rotation of crops comes in to play just before you go to sleep. You’ll want to harvest your last strawberry crop and then plant something that will be take longer to mature, but will still be ready to be harvested when you wake up. The best crop for this job, then, is pumpkins, since they take eight hours to mature.
There is one problem with this, though — pumpkins are only available at level five. However, the XP you get from all the strawberry harvests should help you get past this hurdle long before it’s time to plant your pumpkins. In the nearly impossible chance that you don’t reach level five in time, you can either opt to skip out on growing crops that night or to still plant strawberries and wake up after 7.5 hours to harvest them, since they rot in eight hours.
The amount of coins you can make in profit per week from this system varies depending on how many plots in which you’re planting and harvesting your crops. An underestimate of 16 plots would yield 4,480 coins from the strawberries and 2,576 coins from pumpkins, totaling 7,056 coins. The best part is, since the plowing and seed costs are already included, that 7,056 coins is 100 percent profit!
At level eight, you’ll gain access to raspberries. Raspberries earn 13 coins per hour, so you may want to switch to planting them instead of strawberries. The only catch is that they’re ready to harvest after only two hours, so they require a larger time commitment than strawberries. But the larger time commitment might be worth it to you – raspberries earn 9,856 coins in profit per week!
The crop rotation system makes earning the most from your crops every week easy if you just follow the simple steps discussed earlier. To recap, plant strawberries or raspberries for the whole day, and remember to harvest them as soon as possible (in four hours for strawberries and in two hours for raspberries). Make your last strawberry or raspberry harvest before going to bed, and then plant pumpkins. Do the same thing all over again the next day, and before you know it, you’ll be rolling in Farmville coins!
Farmville Crop Rotation – Jeff Farmer is a world-renowned guru on Farmville’s obscure hidden tools like the one mentioned above. If you want his advice on the best ways to play Farmville, check out his website, Farmville FunClub. You’ll be light-years ahead of your neighbors before you even know it!
