As far as the contracts, it’s mostly a Giant’s issue. This issue comes up so often on so many maps that someone created a mod just to deal with the issue. It has something to do with the way the game engine is calculating the harvest. As far as I can figure, there are a handful of things that could possibly affect this. Field state – fertilization, weeds, crop damage, etc. Anything that can affect the overall harvest may play a part. The only other thing I can think of is that the engine is not properly calculating the size of the field for some unknown reason. It seems to me that this wasn’t even an issue until Precision Farming hit the scene and at that time even Giant’s was having this problem on their base-game maps. I’ve been researching this a lot lately and hope to find a way to minimize the possibility of it happening as much as possible.

The problem with the shop icon somehow made it past us. I’ll have that fixed up over the weekend. Thank you for pointing that out!

The most recent update to the map that is available for download has some changes that may reduce the amount of contract harvest shortages. It still needs more thorough testing, but it should the same or better than it is now.