wheat field placement

[Allabara]

Quite a few times now, I've placed a wheat field and it never becomes productive (it still has 400 wheat in it as time goes by). I end up tearing it down and rebuilding it somewhere else.
Is there some rule for wheat field location that I'm missing? I haven't caught on to any rhyme or reason for the unproductive ones....they're near a farm and storehouse, and there doesn't seem to be anything blocking the way.

[Allabara]

Oh, I may have figured out my own answer -- is it because you can only have 1 wheat field per farm? Maybe the farmer only takes from 1 field and leaves the others alone. That seems to be what's happening with a new farm that I just built. Maybe I'm overdoing it on the fields.

[Hobknocker]

Yes, that's correct. A farmer will work one field to depletion & then move onto the next available field, (based on proximity). A typical ratio is 2 fields per farm, which frees you from having to be online so much to manage your wheat production. Another alternative is to purchase silos which replenish fields at the same rate farms deplete them, (assumes silo & farm are at same level and distance from the field/storehouse).

[HortonsWho]

I started a related discussion under a different thread.

http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/t...es-Fine-Tuning

Workers will travel to the closest resource -- which in the case of wheat fields you can place immediately in front of the farm's front door. Wheat fields to the side, or behind the farm will take longer to travel to. I set things up to have one wheat field immediately in front of each farm, with enough reserve fields farther away for the times when I'm not online to constantly replace fields.

[Allabara]

Thank you for your help, Hobnocker and HortonsWho.