Loosening | Field works Professional Farmer 2014 Guide

After you plow, you need to loosen the soil.

Before it is sown, and after it is plowed, the field needs to e loosened. For that, you need to use the cultivator. Just like in the case of plowing, try to keep the tractor going in straight lines. After you reach the edge of the field, lift the cultivator to make a wide turn, if there is enough space, lower the cultivator and keep on loosening.

It is a good idea to buy the largest cultivator to cut short the time necessary to loosen soil.

You need to make sure that you have loosened the entire field. In the future, try to replace your starting cultivator with a wider one. There are many such machines available in the game. Then, loosening will take much less time. Always strive to loosen the field in 100%. Skipping this step, after the field has been plowed, before sowing, brings your crops down by 33% so, it is not a good idea to do that (especially if you have a wider cultivator).

Loosening takes place right after plowing, in the same season of the year. So, if you have plowed the field in early Spring, you need to loosen right afterwards. This holds true also for plowing for Winter, in late Fall - loosening should be performed in the same season.