What to do in early game for my crops to give me 100% of the product , not 75% because it's too hot outside?

[TheSurvivor2928]

What is a optimal suggestion to solve the crop heat problem?

Edited Thursday at 12:33 PM by TheSurvivor2928

[Vratislav]

Some crops are more heat sensitive than others. These what have maximum temperature under 30°C will just yield less (even down to 50%). I usually do not bother in early game and I just take it as it is. 

But still, you may do therse things:

• establish separate field for heat sensitive crops in higher attitude, 30 blocks above sea level is probably enough.
• move a bit to the north if the terrain is flat and you consider it an issue.
• wait with these sensitive crops till August, however even smaller yield is better than nothing.

Also, you may start in colder climate or move like 5000 blocks to the north, but then the winter hits much more severely, what is surely not the best solution.

[williams_482]

In general, you want to plant cold crops like rye and parsnips in the spring (as soon as 4 am temperatures are warmer than that crop's lower temperature), plant summer crops in their place after harvesting, and put in a final batch of cold crops in August or even early September to close out the growing season.

For example, you might plant parsnips (P crop) in mid April, harvest when it fully matures in mid June and replace with flax (K crop), harvest that in mid August and replace with rye (N crop) to harvest in mid October. 

In the very early game, if it's already midsummer and all you have to plant is cold weather crops, planting them and living with the reduced yields is better than doing nothing with them. 

[Dilan Rona]

Something I have to keep in mind myself. Thank you, @williams_482, and @Vratislav.