A new cultivation appears in SimAgri : Industrial Hemp. This plant is sown in May and harvested in September.

Harvest is done in two steps. First step is the grain harvest with a combine harvester, the second one is mowing the straw with a mower. For the whole harvest you will need, a combine harvester, a mower, a rake and a round baler. Bales then can be sold only to the SimAgri Cooperative (later on to the Regional Agricutural Cooperatives as well), as such they are of no use in a farm.

You just added a "Windrowing" step in the meadows. Once the grass is mowed and tedded you put it in rows before pressing it into bales. This step is mandatory and must be done with a Hay Rake.

A 10,000 euros subsidy has been paid to all players with an active SimPass.

We also added an extra 2 days to all the active SimPass purchased before yesterday morning.

These 2 gifts are given to compensate the technical problems we faced at the end of the previous week (we changed our hardware servers) and made it impossible to access SimAgri for several hours. Everything is now back to norrmal !

The 12 th SimAgri Annual Show closed today. The new equipments and machines displayed during the show are now available on the market.

7 new second hand machines have been added. Among them you'll find 3 Fiatagri tractors for the nostalgics !

. tractor JCB 1135
. tractor Deutz-Fahr DX 4.51
. tractor Fiatagri F 130
. tractor Fiatagri 100 / 90
. tractor Fiatagri 1180 DT
. combine harvester New Holland 8050
. combine harvester Class Lexion 460 R (Canada only)

A new machine is now available on SimAgri : the hay rake. It is used to make hay windrows before pressing hay into bales.

The 12th SimAgri Annual Show is taking place from the 1st to the 7th march of the 14th SimAgri year.

Here is the program :

- monday : poultry and guinea fowls
- tuesday : porcines
- wednesday : caprines
- thursday : rabbits
- friday : bovines and ovines
- sunday : auctions for animals and collector's machines

This year, you will discover a new machine.

Also, 29 new machines will be displayed during the Show and 7 second hand machines are available.

Beetroot's quota for the 14th year have been calculated. Check the "My quotas" page to see yours.

Enrolment of animals for the 14th year's contests of SimAgri Exhibition are opened. You have 2 weeks to enrol your animals.

A maximum of 6 animals per breed (3 males and females) can be enrolled . Only named animals can be enrolled.

The SimAgri team wishes a good and happy year 2008 to all the players (to non players as well ! ).
br/> The 4 major new features for 2008 will be :

- forestry
- market gardening
- horses
- grapevines

Of course other new content will be aded weekly as usual.

After this 10 days break, we are looking forward to start work. We even had to do violence to ourselves not to add new content these last few days :).