User:MindoPod/Wheating

Wheating is a Hay Day term that means growing a lot of wheat, in rapid succession, for the express purpose of gathering tools. If you have a spare hour, you could easily grab 30 tools! Read on...

The wheat is usually sold in the market for a low price so it can be unloaded quickly to free up room in the silo for more wheat to be harvested.

I took harvest 950 wheat as a derby task in my smaller farm (level 55) and recorded the results. I was able to accomplish this task in less than 30 minutes. I have a farm with 84 fields and with 13 rounds of fully planting and harvesting wheat, I harvested 1,092 wheat in that time. Below you will see a table with the FIFTEEN tools that I received from that well-spent half hour.

Each time I harvested my crops (every 2 minutes) I received at least one tool. 30% of the time I received two tools with each full harvest (double tools on 4 of the 13 times I swept my fields).

I have 19 crates for putting items up for sale in my shop, and marked each unit of 10 wheat at 1 coin. They always sold suprisingly fast! I was able to sell all the wheat in my store each round of harvest without fail, and have an empty store ready for my next load of wheat to sell.

I tried a second round of testing in my main account (level 95 / 100 fields) and had similar results; all wheat sold out within the 2 minutes it took to grow more wheat; about 28% of the time I received two tools per harvest. The 36 tools received in that one hour test are also in the table below.

TIP​S
 * Before you begin wheating, make sure you have room in your silo to hold a full harvest.
 * When you are ready to list your wheat in the store, UNcheck the Advertise checkbox with all the first few crates you set up for sale.  Then click it on and advertise the last crate you ready for sale.  Why?  Because if you advertise with your very first crate and someone comes right away, they may have been inclined to buy more from you, but you haven't had time to load it all up yet, resulting in potential lost sales.  On the other hand, if you load then advertise  - your full inventory is available for sale and may go all at once. The average customer will buy 5-7 crates of wheat at a time.
 * If you have unsold inventory in your story after four minutes, remember to come back in and hit Free Advertisement once again to promote the remaining inventory in the newspaper - otherwise no one will discover you are selling it.

