40d:Grower

A grower is a dwarf with a high profession level in fields farming. A high level of growing allows a dwarf to plant seeds at a faster rate, increasing food output. Growers are a great help in getting a strong early food production set up and are highly recommended to be one of your starting seven dwarves.

In addition to sowing seeds more quickly, higher-skilled growers are more likely to produce stacks of several plants instead of single plants. This increases not only raw food output, but also overall food production efficiency, since brewers, cooks, and threshers work with entire stacks at a time. For example, five copies of "plump helmet" will be brewed, over the course of five actions, into five copies of "dwarven wine[5]", using five barrels. But one copy of "plump helmet[5]" will be brewed, in a single action, into "dwarven wine[25]", which will fit neatly into a single barrel.