Best Crop for feed.

[novaalpha]

carrots give 2 units of feed for the same work

This is where you are wrong.

How do you replant if you use all 3 of your seeds ?

The mistake is not within number but within 'same work' part. Anyone who did 12 hours/day farming knows that dealing with beetroot is huge waste of time and effort and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

[kralmir]

its luck in everything, thats why you look at expected averages when comparing stuff to each other. as it stands on average to maintain a field and feed cows pumpkins rise +4q per cow generation, considering cows rise a max of 5points per generation(note, max, not average) seems to me that pumpkins remain a doable choice for q and are best for feed per work.

[pyrale]

its luck in everything

Luck doesn't exist. There are only probabilities, which you can use to set exactly which risk factor you will get :p.

[kralmir]

my definition of luck is anything we don't have control over. we don't have control over the q of a plant, thus it's luck. now take those smartass "well technically" glasses off

[Potjeh]

How is this even discussion? Nothing beats pumpkin's return per labour investment.

Oh, and livestock q is -5/+20 from base, but if you think you can get anything near +20 each generation you know nothing about cattle breeding.

[novaalpha]

How is this even discussion?

Because return per labour investment isn't always a measuring stick.

[Potjeh]

I guess you can go enjoy your three pieces of +5q cheese then.

[MagicManICT]

All the seeds from the same pumpkin is the same Q as the pumpkin so a Q30 Pumpkin gives 8 q30 flesh 8 q30 seeds. So need some luck in that.

That would mean pumpkins never grow in quality (unless you mean that the pumpkin has a different quality than the seed that was used to plant it ?).

Pumpkins, like all plants, vary by the [+5, -5] from the seed planted with the range capped by soil and farming skill.

[slipper]

One of my beets field is enough to feed fill two food throughs for each harvest and the throw-away seeds from other crops are enough to fill another two.
I do prefer to use the carrots for cakes and spring stew.

[Girlinhat]

It's probably best to use your staple food. Carrots are always nice to have, so over-grow carrots, plant the first-rate, feed the second-rate to livestock, and eat the third-rate. Sell the fourth-rate to noobs, you need more rabbit hide, right?