Mar 28th 2011, 10:55:08
There's no need to "buy out" the market at a certain price level (unless, since you're a demo, you're buying it at a lower price and selling it higher--this can be a little risky, though). Usually if you're placing goods on the market at the current price level, they will sell unless the market is tanking. The newest goods placed on the market sell first, so you can put your goods on the market at the current price usually pretty safely (without having to wait for everyone else's to sell).
Cashing probably doesn't give you much of a benefit--usually for farmers, unless you're at a high enough land (read: 30k+ acres) that it's too expensive to build more with not much time left in the set, it's usually worthwhile exploring the majority of your turns and building more farms.
For the end of the set (dumping stock), you probably want to leave a couple days to get rid of all your bushels. You'll probably want to jump networth by buying military tech to lower your private market buy prices and increase your bushel sell price (max is 81% for democracies). Then, you'll want to sell your bushels and buy the cheapest military available (either off your private market or off the public market). Your private market has a maximum, but it will replenish bit by bit each turn--so if you have enough money to buy out your entire private market, you probably want to leave more time to destock than one day. Usually 3-6 days is a normal amount of time to destock.
Usually for the end of the set, you