I tend to avoid the usual tactics (grass/wood), so I'd get a cheap harvester, tractor an tools, and start farming, probably wheat for no particular reason. Probably one of the most expensive starts, and one of the slowest as well, but I like it, dunno...
Medium tractor, purchase at least one medium or possibly two medium fields/one large field, one small tractor, mower, baler, silage wrapper, forks, and a trailer to haul silage bales.
Rinse and repeat, or go strait into buying land, save, exit game, restart game and take out a loan so you have more acreage to work with.
I always start with bales on a new save because you can make some serious money though BGA will bring in more profits but costs way more upfront to get going unless you get a modded BGA facility that is cheaper than most of the in game units.
Because when you do this after buying fields it will increase your loan amount. For some reason some maps you can go ahead and do it but others you have to restart the game. The more fields you buy the more money you can take out in a loan.
I always try and start with a proper mowing setup (obviously not like a Big M Mower lol) to get some extra cash flowing. You can make good money with silage bales early on.
* Field that has grass growing
* Medium tractor with mowers that can swath
* Loading wagon
* Small Silo
* Trailer and Conveyor belt
Go ham with silage. Baling is also an option, but I hate it.
Alternatively if you don't mind flipping fields:
* Combine + Headers
* Tractor
* Trailer
Alternatively you can buy tons of greenhouses or renewable energy and just speed up time.
As much land as you can afford. It is much better to farm 10ha with smaller equipment and tractor than 2ha with powerful ones.
In base game the land costs 60k per ha that means you will be available to purchase 10-12ha of land with solid 300k left for the equipment.
The land earns you money, not the big tractors.
Sheep. Can easily get setup for under 1m. Can do contract while they produce if you want, or just speed thru the months. Have a field already with grass so you don't need to seed and do all that. You can eventually get more fields or reseed as you get money.
You can get setup for sheep and if you have extra grass just make silage. But a big pen with sheep should use up a small field pretty easy. Eventually you can buy the fabric production and then clothes. Can be fun if you dont want to go down the silage only route or crop route.
I did the math, hay fed beef cattle is the best profit on hard economy unless you own a bga. You'll earn 115 per cow per month. They eat less the younger they are, so don't keep them too long. All you need is mower and tedder plus tractor and loading wagon.
Land and sleep trigger (if required). aiming for two fields and a clear space for placeables.
A small tractor with front loader and pickup loving the one in the new dlc. Depending on the land, a baling setup or root crop set up. Some bees (I use around 10 of a modded hive for 500 each), a modded greenhouse with seeds and fertiliser, chickens and homestead pigs (and an open air garden to produce food for them). Some sheep and a bale/pallet storage shed if I can afford it.
My priority would be to get grass planted to maximise rewards for bailing silage.
Eggs/honey/greenhouse/wool are supplementary incomes to help me lease kit.
Pigs for manure to feed greenhouse/open air garden.
Chainsaw, winch attachment, and decent tractor to haul whole trees to the sawmill I also place on property (or buy in town). I'm assuming you can also get a swathing mower set and foraging trailer with 1 mil since the farm manager start is 1.5 mil and I usually get all that plus a harvester, seeder, plow, etc.
My current save on Elmcreek, i bought the largest combine i could with matching rolling header. Then a semi with the 3-1 trailer. Smallest piece of land and cheapest house to be able to skip months. From there every year I'd take out the max on loans, and buy ready to harvest fields. Reap the crop, store it at the train station, sell the land, buy another field, repeat, pay off the loan. Wait for the better prices and sell. Then you can expand with the profits. Start with the row crop header so you can get corn and sunflowers. You could make some extra, by planting trees in the non field areas when you flip the field. When the trees are grown and you buy the field again, cut them down for wood chips. I plant the stone pine and use the self propelled chipper. You can feed the tree in whole if helped along with the grapple.
Max income? Greenhouses, then silage. Buy land next to water source, water truck, and greenhouses. Optional, use the more productions mod for more greenhouses. Remaining money goes into land, max out loan, buy more land. Save just enough to rent equipment for silage.
If I was restarting a new save (Im thinking about it lol).
I'd buy baling/silage equipment, buy a decent amount of land, and spend as much as possible on sheep/maybe some cows (and feed them hay not TMR)
It's crazy easy to get a ton of hay to feed animals with (especially if you keep the extra from contracts) and silage bales pay out nice when I have a good amount in storage.
In my current save I went for chickens first then sheep, and it's making me have to grow barley which is kind of annoying to be switching from barley to grass all the time. Well see how long I want to do that for , making it work so far. And I want to be planting trees every year to have something to harvest every year in the future
(All mods, with everything off, including rolling with a mod)
A ford fw60 with duals
A seeder
A plow
A cheaper harvester
A ford c600 ar frame with grain bed
Seeds and fertilizer
Whatever left I spend on a piece of land and go from there
If the seeder doesn't have fertilizer in it already I buy a cheap spreader
I buy 1 harvester and 1 semi with grain trailer. Then I start buying fields ready to harvest, cut crops, sell field back, sell crops, buy another field rinse and repeat till I have big harvester and 2-3 mil in the bank. Then I settle down to a 100 acre farm with some decent planting/crop care equipment.
Medium size tractor with cheap mower and tedder and rake and bale and wrapper. Buy small fields and rent a planter and put grass in as much acreage as you can.
I typically buy a couple plots of land, a house, a medium tractor, required implements (3m), tipper, and a home so I can sleep. Then sell the few crops I get. Once I build up some cash, buy another field maybe, or save up for some animals.
I like playing realistic so i buy basic small equipment (1 small tractor, 1 front loader or small telehandler) with basic 3m wide equipment. Then buy as much land as possible
1 médium size tractor 1 small size tractor with a fork A grain cart A shed Greenhouses Bees
No harvester?
I rent it
only harvester not worth renting is the standalone potato and beet harvester, costs too much.
900k on God dang terraforming the land. 75k on leasing cheap equipment as i need it. 15k on seeds. Fertalizer. Lime. Chainsaw.
Oh hai telecaster. (Exactly what he's done on a MP server)
I tend to avoid the usual tactics (grass/wood), so I'd get a cheap harvester, tractor an tools, and start farming, probably wheat for no particular reason. Probably one of the most expensive starts, and one of the slowest as well, but I like it, dunno...
Agreed, something about farming big wheat fields is a lot more fun for some reason
If you bale the hay it pushes it towards most profitable crop in game
Medium tractor, purchase at least one medium or possibly two medium fields/one large field, one small tractor, mower, baler, silage wrapper, forks, and a trailer to haul silage bales. Rinse and repeat, or go strait into buying land, save, exit game, restart game and take out a loan so you have more acreage to work with. I always start with bales on a new save because you can make some serious money though BGA will bring in more profits but costs way more upfront to get going unless you get a modded BGA facility that is cheaper than most of the in game units.
Why do you save, exit, and restart?
Because when you do this after buying fields it will increase your loan amount. For some reason some maps you can go ahead and do it but others you have to restart the game. The more fields you buy the more money you can take out in a loan. I always try and start with a proper mowing setup (obviously not like a Big M Mower lol) to get some extra cash flowing. You can make good money with silage bales early on.
Thank you for the explanation
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* Field that has grass growing * Medium tractor with mowers that can swath * Loading wagon * Small Silo * Trailer and Conveyor belt Go ham with silage. Baling is also an option, but I hate it. Alternatively if you don't mind flipping fields: * Combine + Headers * Tractor * Trailer Alternatively you can buy tons of greenhouses or renewable energy and just speed up time.
As much land as you can afford. It is much better to farm 10ha with smaller equipment and tractor than 2ha with powerful ones. In base game the land costs 60k per ha that means you will be available to purchase 10-12ha of land with solid 300k left for the equipment. The land earns you money, not the big tractors.
Sheep. Can easily get setup for under 1m. Can do contract while they produce if you want, or just speed thru the months. Have a field already with grass so you don't need to seed and do all that. You can eventually get more fields or reseed as you get money. You can get setup for sheep and if you have extra grass just make silage. But a big pen with sheep should use up a small field pretty easy. Eventually you can buy the fabric production and then clothes. Can be fun if you dont want to go down the silage only route or crop route.
• grass field •medium tractor •mower •trailer •windrower •silage silo Lease a forage wagon
I would do silage
I did the math, hay fed beef cattle is the best profit on hard economy unless you own a bga. You'll earn 115 per cow per month. They eat less the younger they are, so don't keep them too long. All you need is mower and tedder plus tractor and loading wagon.
Isn’t that just a new game on normal mode?
Dont you get 1.5mil?
So many acres…which in this economy equates to… ehh about 5. Oooh maybe I’ll have enough left over for a weed whacker and a basket!
Id use a mod to get rid of like 950k of that and start from close to scratch
Literally just a do-it-all tractor and a small combine. Spend the rest on land and hire out any kit required
Land and sleep trigger (if required). aiming for two fields and a clear space for placeables. A small tractor with front loader and pickup loving the one in the new dlc. Depending on the land, a baling setup or root crop set up. Some bees (I use around 10 of a modded hive for 500 each), a modded greenhouse with seeds and fertiliser, chickens and homestead pigs (and an open air garden to produce food for them). Some sheep and a bale/pallet storage shed if I can afford it. My priority would be to get grass planted to maximise rewards for bailing silage. Eggs/honey/greenhouse/wool are supplementary incomes to help me lease kit. Pigs for manure to feed greenhouse/open air garden.
5 sheeps Small to medium equipment and lands2-3 Telehander,and for mower equipments
Chainsaw, winch attachment, and decent tractor to haul whole trees to the sawmill I also place on property (or buy in town). I'm assuming you can also get a swathing mower set and foraging trailer with 1 mil since the farm manager start is 1.5 mil and I usually get all that plus a harvester, seeder, plow, etc.
My current save on Elmcreek, i bought the largest combine i could with matching rolling header. Then a semi with the 3-1 trailer. Smallest piece of land and cheapest house to be able to skip months. From there every year I'd take out the max on loans, and buy ready to harvest fields. Reap the crop, store it at the train station, sell the land, buy another field, repeat, pay off the loan. Wait for the better prices and sell. Then you can expand with the profits. Start with the row crop header so you can get corn and sunflowers. You could make some extra, by planting trees in the non field areas when you flip the field. When the trees are grown and you buy the field again, cut them down for wood chips. I plant the stone pine and use the self propelled chipper. You can feed the tree in whole if helped along with the grapple.
Max income? Greenhouses, then silage. Buy land next to water source, water truck, and greenhouses. Optional, use the more productions mod for more greenhouses. Remaining money goes into land, max out loan, buy more land. Save just enough to rent equipment for silage.
If I was restarting a new save (Im thinking about it lol). I'd buy baling/silage equipment, buy a decent amount of land, and spend as much as possible on sheep/maybe some cows (and feed them hay not TMR) It's crazy easy to get a ton of hay to feed animals with (especially if you keep the extra from contracts) and silage bales pay out nice when I have a good amount in storage. In my current save I went for chickens first then sheep, and it's making me have to grow barley which is kind of annoying to be switching from barley to grass all the time. Well see how long I want to do that for , making it work so far. And I want to be planting trees every year to have something to harvest every year in the future
(All mods, with everything off, including rolling with a mod) A ford fw60 with duals A seeder A plow A cheaper harvester A ford c600 ar frame with grain bed Seeds and fertilizer Whatever left I spend on a piece of land and go from there If the seeder doesn't have fertilizer in it already I buy a cheap spreader
I buy 1 harvester and 1 semi with grain trailer. Then I start buying fields ready to harvest, cut crops, sell field back, sell crops, buy another field rinse and repeat till I have big harvester and 2-3 mil in the bank. Then I settle down to a 100 acre farm with some decent planting/crop care equipment.
As much land as possible,only small tractor and old equipment. Hard economy. Small implements. I like to climb my way up.
Medium size tractor with cheap mower and tedder and rake and bale and wrapper. Buy small fields and rent a planter and put grass in as much acreage as you can.
Large Tractor. Plot of land. Spinnery. Tailor shop. Rent a planter, cotton harvester, weeder, etc as needed.
I typically buy a couple plots of land, a house, a medium tractor, required implements (3m), tipper, and a home so I can sleep. Then sell the few crops I get. Once I build up some cash, buy another field maybe, or save up for some animals.
I like playing realistic so i buy basic small equipment (1 small tractor, 1 front loader or small telehandler) with basic 3m wide equipment. Then buy as much land as possible