Howdy Folks,
Over the past couple weeks I've been doing quite a bit of testing trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with my farming. I had followed other's advice and only planted and harvested on sunny/clear days and used 80+quality soil and fertile soil in my farming. I also believed the many different players telling me that soil type had no effect quantity harvested, that was all weather. Even with all the reading I had done, no matter what I tried or did, I could never get a "good" harvest of more than 3 plants/stems/hay harvested per cell.
Something else changed with this patch, as now twice I have gotten significantly higher harvest rates, 4/8/12 bunches on Fertile Soil, and 4/6 Harvests on plain Soil, all 90+quality.
I don't know if ya'll changed something, or maybe the update to the server which I play on had something broke that got fixed, whatever it is/was, I thank you quite a bit.
This was done with 2 full fields of 10x5 cells, so 50 Fertile Soil, and 50 plain Soil. I did two rows of carrots/peas/onions and 3 rows of flax per field. No matter plant type, with the fertile 90+ I was seeing 4/8/12 harvest bunches. With the plain Soil that was 90+ quality, 4/6 bunches was all I was able to get.
I am fairly certain in saying that Soil type, Fertile or Non, definitely has an effect on harvest quantities now.