Do with extra food once a planet is fully populated

stellaris

My home planet has been totally colonized. Buildings are on every square, upgraded as far as they can go. It's now producing an extra bit of food. Can I push this food off-planet to encourage faster growth elsewhere? Or does this additional food just get wasted, now that I can no longer use it to grow my population? If so, I'd prefer to replace the farms with more long-term productive buildings. Which will happen eventually, but I can always bootstrap another colony before that comes about.

Best Answer

You could keep a little extra food in case your population move offworld to another colony to speed up the growth as opposite to slow growth at just "one" food.

As far I am aware you can't share food off world. So go ahead switch to long-term production building.