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The objective now is to crossbreed them to get better crop stats. Use a fast growing crop like Stickreed, Sugar Cane(Reed), Mushroom or Glowflower. Stickreed is considered the best since it's a Tier 4. Crops need to be analyzed to see their stats. The early option is an LV Scanner or Cropnalyzer, but they only work on seed bags, which needs the crop to be fully harvested as well. To avoid this, make a Portable Scanner and right click planted crops to see their stats immediately without harvesting.
[[File:CropsStatsData.png|thumb|right|Spread of stats when crossbreeding]]
Crop stats start at 1/1/1 for Growth/Gain/Resistance and change slightly from the existing crops to the new one, at random. Keep crossbreeding and replanting the new crops that have better stats than the ones you have. The objective is to get 21/31/0 to spread high stats to other crops, and 23/31/0 for crops meant to be harvested in an automated farm. Crossbreed the max-statted crop with other crops to transfer over the high stats. To obtain other kinds of crops that haven't showed up yet, the [[NEI]] tab on the seeds is useful and a good path to follow.
The spread of stats when crossbreeding crops with the same stats on a field with a checkerboard configuration can be seen on the screenshot - the data were obtained experimentally using a robot from OpenComputers.
While crossbreeding for stats, pick all the different crops that show up over time and store their seeds. To reach most of the useful high-tier crops, start with the ore crops obtained from crossbreeding Stickreeds and cross those, aiming for higher and higher tier crops until you reach Platina. These need Platinum Blocks to grow fully, which might be unavailable, but they can still crossbreed without the block at growth stage 3.
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