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Vehicles
Picture and Name	Information and Farm Facts.
Tractor	Used for pulling plows, planters, sprayers and trailers. Cost new: $400 Requires: Nothing Occupies: 1 tile Keep many on hand because they are needed for many jobs. Keep an eye on their condition so they don't go bad.
Plow	Used for ready a field for planting Cost new: $200 Requires: Tractor for pulling Occupies: 1 tile Necessary in planting crops.
Planter	Used for planting seeds in fields Cost new: $200 Requires: Tractor, seeds Occupies: 1 tile Required for planting crops.
Sprayer	Used to spray fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide Cost new: $200 Requires: Tractor, Choice of Fertilizer, Pesticide, Herbicide, Fungicide Occupies: 1 tile You need these when you have crops. Buy as many as you have fields.
Harvester	Used to harvest crops from fields Cost new: $400 Requires: Trailer, Truck Occupies: 2 tiles Only some crops need these. The certain few just need trucks.
Trailer	Used for transport during harvest process Cost new: $200 Requires: Harvester Occupies: 2 tiles Attached to harvester.
Large Truck	Used for transporting harvests to silos or to market Cost new: $500 Requires: Nothing Occupies: 2 tiles Only a few crops only need these but all need them with or without harvester.
Crop Duster	Used for spraying multiple fields Cost new:$6,000 Requires: The town must have grown large enough to build airport Occupies: Its own airport near town I will give more description of the plane later.

Picture and Name	Information and Farm Facts.
Small and Large Silos	Used to store harvests Cost: $800 for small and $2400 for large Capacity: 1 harvest for small and 4 for large. Use the small silo to fill in small spaces. Both small and large silos can explode of filled with certain crops and weather conditions are right. Duck and cover!!!
Small and Large shed	Used to store machinery and seed Cost: $1200 for small and $1440 for large Capacity: 6 items for small and 9 items for large
Large and small barn.	Cost: $800 Capacity: 9 items - small ---- 12 items - large Used to store sprays, seed, and livestock. You can store machinery in them but they make expensive garages.
Water Pump	Pumps water from natural sources with the aids of irrigation ditches. Place the pump right on the water source. For increased pressure over long distances, you can add another pump close to the water's destination. Floods will disable the pump and destroy irrigation ditches. Used to store harvests Cost: $1000
Windmill	Used as a water source. It's capacity depends on placement--it pumps well water. Windmill water will flow though any ditch placed in front of or one tile below the mill; flooding could occur if no ditches are placed. They require 10 mph of wind to work. Cost: $2000
Water Tower	Used to store water for livestock. It must be filled by a water source, such as a flowing irrigation ditch placed next to or in front of the tower, it will keep any troughs on your land filled if the ditches flow. Water towers can burst and cause flooding. Cost: $200

Fertilizer Pesticide Herbicide Fungicide Sprays

You can be the mad scientist and mix and match Fertilizer, Pesticide, Herbicide, and Fungicide for your famished fields, though too much of a good thing can bruise the land. Additives can be put on your field manually with the spray button in the edit window or automatically with the schedule window. Try leaving lands to fallow or rotating crops to return nutrients to the soil and reduce your amounts of chemicals. Cost: $200

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