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[Schmaven]

I've recently noticed that if there are no seeds available to plant, dwarves with farming enabled will not do any other jobs if there is an empty patch of farm.  Setting the farm to fallow or disabling their farming labor results in them going off to work the various other jobs.  Otherwise, they just stand around and spam "...cancels Plant Seeds: Needs plump helmet spawn"

My current way of handling it is that whenever I notice the cancellation spam, I toggle those farms off and make sure dwarven wine / pigtail cloth / quarry bush leaves / etc. are being produced and not just sitting in a stockpile.  I suppose now is a fine time to figure out work orders for the food industry.  But regardless of processing bottlenecks, is there a better way than fallowing the fields to get the farmers to do something productive while they wait for seeds?

[Dunamisdeos]

Huh. I never noticed this, and can't say whether I've experienced it or not. I've always assigned planter dwarves to other duties as well. I usually keep overlarge seed piles, so maybe that's why.

[Schmaven]

I cut the farm sizes in half, and set up work orders to automatically process the crops.  The issue remains, but the farmers now have enough seeds and move on to other jobs once the fields have been fully planted.  The caravan exports have decreased slightly, but the traders seem just as happy with a 3x profit margin as they did with 10x.