These images are from the three day crop cycle I used to test and debug the original Farm Manager workbook. The first version was released in April of 2009, it is now in version 5 and version 6 will be released soon.
You can see changes I made to the farm during the process to throw just about everything I could think of with the exception of a land upgrade. That was done after the harvest party on day three. The farm had 325 fields planted for the cycle with a total of 825 fields harvested over the three day cycle using all the crops and trees available. I had friends do the harvesting so I could save the trees for the last day's harvest to get as much color on the farm as possible. On day 3 we had a small harvest party..
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Day 1
The fields planted on day one were 225 potato, 50 strawberry, 25 coffee, 50 sunflower, and 25 corn.
The images above are day one after planting and two of the growth progress
The images above are day one crops ready for harvest and the first harvest.
Day 2
Day two I planted 125 potato, 50 strawberry, 50 rice, 25 wheat, and 25 tomato fields.
The three above and one below are day 2 planted with the growth progress.
Day 3
Day three was planted with 150 potato and 25 strawberry fields.
As day three progressed more trees ripened. The trees added to 10,863 coins to the harvest.
The Harvest Party
A special thanks to the ladies for helping out with the test and harvesting the crops for me.
Above and below are the harvest party images and the last one in the next row is after all the crops were sold.
The last image below is the farm after upgrading to a 24x24 land size.
I cut paths to make it easier for Uncle Joe to get around.
You can see I changed things during the cycle, day 2 I penned the bunnies and cats because I got tired of having to stop plowing to move them out of the way. I also moved trees around to mix the colors up and make room for new ones sent as gifts.