Plant crops, wait for them to ripen, and sell on a high-price day, but the harvest spoils if you hold it too long and the forecasts only hint at where prices go.
Pick a crop and plant seeds for cash. Each crop takes a number of days to ripen, then sits ready for a short window before it spoils. The market price for every crop drifts day by day, and a noisy forecast star hints at where it's heading. Sell ripe plots on strong days, reinvest your earnings, and end the season with the most profit.
Harvest Ledger is about market timing and inventory economics, set on a drifting crop market.
Planting crops that ripen on a timer, sit briefly and then spoil, while prices drift, is a commodity market with perishability attached.
Giving each crop a short ready window is the original pressure.
Perishability is what makes agricultural markets different from other commodity markets. A crop that cannot be held cannot wait for a better price, so the grower's timing decision is made months earlier at planting — which is precisely why futures contracts were invented.
Harvest Ledger is an original free browser game about market timing and inventory economics, set on a drifting crop market where perishable goods meet noisy forecasts. Built in-house for PlayPendium.