As the title says, farmers aren’t finishing their fields. Can be recreated by making multiple fields with a single farmer.
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The farmer is just overworked 
No, really, too much to do for one little hearthling.
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If you make multiple fields at once, there are a variety of reasons why the farmer might not finish one field before starting another. The AI has no priority towards completing fields over starting in a new one.
For instance, if the farmer is working one field and something more important comes up (sleeping, eating, gathering crops, town defense alert, etc), they’ll go and do that. When the more important thing is done, they’ll usually path to the closest untilled farm patch to start work again. Given enough time, they’ll eventually get to all the field.
If the fields are quite close together, they’ll sometimes jump from one field to another if the nearest untilled soil is closer in the next field over than in the current one too.
I should add that AI priorities have changed a little in the last patch with regards to farming. They’ll plant crops the instant the soil is tilled in an eligible patch rather than tilling an entire field first.
Having said that, I can agree that farmers should prefer to finish a field over starting on a new one. The AI should prefer to complete a major task (farming in a single field) over going and starting a new major task. But that’s more of a suggestion than a bug.
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