User blog comment:Smaugtastic/Secrets to Dragon Story/Tourney Battle Plan/@comment-26035215-20160427141347/@comment-25623761-20160427143710

What I do is always make sure I have 400,000 food on hand. So if I am leveling a dragon up, I can't go under 400,000 food. I do scalypears only during World Events, I could be more aggressive here, but I choose not to. When it isn't a World Event, I plant Diamondates (sp) because I don't went to have to be glued to my phone either. Most days I get 3-4 harvests in. So that is 800 times 3 for each of my 7 farms. I think I figured it out once that is was around 16,000 food a day, but I may be wrong. My feeling is that even if I only plant one Diamondate a day, I still get 100 more food than I would with Scalypears. I hope that helps some. Of course you need the coins to plant the Diamondates consistently.