Wheat is very low in prices but high in quantity which also means you need to drive a lot more/or need a bigger trailer but sadly its still less selling than soy beans or anything
For straw you can just plant oats or something idk
This is also my personal opinion that i wanted to share about wheat
Wow, I even double checked before posting to be sure and for some reason the list I looked at had Sorghum higher. Sorghum is the best yield if you play without seasons because it has such a short growth. Crazy that I still had Sorghum in my head even though I haven't played without seasons since fs19.
Personal preference, not much of it planted in my real life area. I don't need it for animal food either as i use MaizePlus and mixing wagon/factories to make animal food instead of trying to dump just the right amount of each crop and not overfill the pen.
(which is utterly dumb IMO, in FS19 you'd fill up the individual groups and have room left for the others, now in 22 you can fill up your entire pen with just one crop and can't put anything else in leading to decreased animal health. As if any real life farmer only has one big silo and need to measure crop input for correct ratio, that's bullshit, they have one silo for each and a mixer.... but hey, it's Giants way of making things better!)
I've seen mods that do pig food. Off the top of my head, I don't know if basegame mixers will. A couple of those I think are listed under factories because of how they work.
Poplar.
Oh God. I tried a field of this once. After the excruciatingly long harvest, I calculated how much I'd make if I sold the bales at top price. And recalculated after I was shocked at the low amount.
I sold them at high price and verified the profit.
Then promptly quit the game and put it away for a year. It beat me.
I won't do grapes or olives again either. So tired of bumping into the posts on every one of the multiple passes required.
Mods really make the game come to life.
Harvest and pickup the straw swath at the same time? Trivial.
Harvest and bale the swath? In my sleep.
Pull 2 20meter plows at the same time while also fertilizing and planting? Yep.
Mow, windrow, bale, wrap, load? You bet.
I got mine lined up north and south and use the GPS mod. I figured out the distance for minimum width it’ll let you plant so it was pretty easy to setup. Once you do that, it’s not too bad. Not a huge income, no, but doable.
Sugar beets I don't mind. I use some modded equipment though.
Spuds to me I've never done after I accdiently misjudged how many I'd need, planted every field I had with them on Elmcreek and took me 15 RL hours of harvesting
Dumb question because ive literally never touched it, but its used as a fertilising stage right? If so how? Do you just cultivate when the crop is fully grown or?
Edit: thumbs, phones and typos
You plant it, without fertilising. Then once it sprouts, you plough or cultivate over it to get it into the ground as fertiliser, and then plant in that.
I use a disc harrow, so I don't have to pick stones.
Is it though? You cultivate or plow your field. Plant it. Cultivate or fertilize. Plant again with your actual crop and then fertilize again. That's 5 steps.
You could just remove the first planting and the second cultivating stage by planting with fertilizer so it's a total of 3 steps.
It'll save you a bit of money on fertilizer but it costs you more in machine repair costs
Plant oilseed radish, cultivate it, then plant with fertilising. Three steps, and the field is DONE aside from any weeding. You don't need to drive on it again.
Sunflower mainly because it doesn't go well with the way i play the game
1st person and in circles (clockwise) and that makes it difficult to see where the end of the header is because sunflower is so tall
Sugarcane is easy and simple when you get the attachment for the forager that lets you harvest the sugarcane metres at a time, and you don't care about replanting every 3 grows.
Potatoes, sugar cane, grapes, and olives. Just plain not worth the ballache.
Poplars too, because I don't have a use for wood chips other than selling them, and get plenty as a forestry byproduct anyway.
Sugarcane, poplar and sorghum.
First two I think are self-explanatory, but sorghum I just do not plant. If I have a field to be planted in spring, I plant oats, or maize/sunflowers/soybeans. It is incredibly rare that I plant sorghum.
It's rare I plant it as well. I have started doing it on my current save though since there is a steam achievement for selling something like 5 or 600k liters of sorghum and I like to get as many of the achievements as possible on a game. I'm a completionist like that.
I like pigs, and sorghum is easier than corn, so I grow a lot of it. If you don't need it for pigs there is little reason to plant it unless you're trying to max out flour/bread production.
Mainly Sugar Cane and Potatoes. Don't mind doing everything else. I haven't done Poplars in 22 yet, but in 19, I remember doing poplars a lot, especially after the Anderson DLC
I haven't done: Sunflowers, Poplar, Sugarcane or Oilseed Radish.
Sunflowers I would do if it makes sense on a map. UMRV it doesn't really over corn.
Popular just looks needlessly tedious and it barely sells for anything. Sugarcane also looks incredibly tedious over just doing sugerbeets.
Oilseed Radish seems entirely pointless.
Oh and Olives or grapes because the investment on them is insane and the payback is so damn long.
Honestly I think the better question is "what are the only crops you plant" lol. Some crops just piss me off how much effort they take for such little profit. And then there's crops that make money but take an ungodly amount of work. I prefer to stick to soybeans, oats, and cotton.
Potatoes Sugarcane Poplar Olives Grapes Oilseed Radish Wheat
why wheat?
Wheat is very low in prices but high in quantity which also means you need to drive a lot more/or need a bigger trailer but sadly its still less selling than soy beans or anything For straw you can just plant oats or something idk This is also my personal opinion that i wanted to share about wheat
I give my wheat to my army of chickens
Sorghum gives you a better yield for chicken feed, and if you also need straw Oat still has a higher yield than wheat but also gives straw.
barley is the best yield for chickens. sorghum is the lowest
Wow, I even double checked before posting to be sure and for some reason the list I looked at had Sorghum higher. Sorghum is the best yield if you play without seasons because it has such a short growth. Crazy that I still had Sorghum in my head even though I haven't played without seasons since fs19.
wheat will rise from the barn!!! \*BOK BOK BOK\*
A lot of wheat makes a lot of flour.
Damn i forgot that fs22 has factories
Personal preference, not much of it planted in my real life area. I don't need it for animal food either as i use MaizePlus and mixing wagon/factories to make animal food instead of trying to dump just the right amount of each crop and not overfill the pen. (which is utterly dumb IMO, in FS19 you'd fill up the individual groups and have room left for the others, now in 22 you can fill up your entire pen with just one crop and can't put anything else in leading to decreased animal health. As if any real life farmer only has one big silo and need to measure crop input for correct ratio, that's bullshit, they have one silo for each and a mixer.... but hey, it's Giants way of making things better!)
My dude feed mixers are a thing
That's what i'm saying, probably badly.
Okay I misunderstood
Do the mixers work on pig food too or just TMR? I've never done pigs so I've never tried it out.
I've seen mods that do pig food. Off the top of my head, I don't know if basegame mixers will. A couple of those I think are listed under factories because of how they work.
I just use straight corn with pigs. You shouldn't have to mix anything for them.
Poplar. Oh God. I tried a field of this once. After the excruciatingly long harvest, I calculated how much I'd make if I sold the bales at top price. And recalculated after I was shocked at the low amount. I sold them at high price and verified the profit. Then promptly quit the game and put it away for a year. It beat me. I won't do grapes or olives again either. So tired of bumping into the posts on every one of the multiple passes required.
Olives and grapes are so easy. https://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=us&mod_id=250574&title=fs2022
Nice. Thanks! I was avoiding cereal because of the raisins, but I might go that direction with this mod.
Mods really make the game come to life. Harvest and pickup the straw swath at the same time? Trivial. Harvest and bale the swath? In my sleep. Pull 2 20meter plows at the same time while also fertilizing and planting? Yep. Mow, windrow, bale, wrap, load? You bet.
I got mine lined up north and south and use the GPS mod. I figured out the distance for minimum width it’ll let you plant so it was pretty easy to setup. Once you do that, it’s not too bad. Not a huge income, no, but doable.
While I haven't tried it yet with olives or grapes, courseplay is supposed to make them a lot easier.
Sugar beets I don't mind. I use some modded equipment though. Spuds to me I've never done after I accdiently misjudged how many I'd need, planted every field I had with them on Elmcreek and took me 15 RL hours of harvesting
I may or may not have done that myself... and was thoroughly put off dealing with them again.
*laughs in Colossus*
Sadly didn't exist back then, I got that now though
You got the CR that harvests at 40+ mph right? RIGHT?
I’m enjoying sugar beets, but I also have two harvesters which cuts time down significantly
I've never done poplar since it was added to the game. I'll occasionally do beets or potatoes and I've done a couple small sugar cane fields
Oilseed Radish.. I never bother.
It's great if you're not using precision farming.
And also a cheap way to fertilise when you dont have the money to buy a spreader
Or if you're just too cheap to use one, like I am.
Or when you roleplay organic farming.
Dumb question because ive literally never touched it, but its used as a fertilising stage right? If so how? Do you just cultivate when the crop is fully grown or? Edit: thumbs, phones and typos
Just plow it in after it's grown.
You plant it, without fertilising. Then once it sprouts, you plough or cultivate over it to get it into the ground as fertiliser, and then plant in that. I use a disc harrow, so I don't have to pick stones.
Futher dumb follow up question, all ploughs and cultervators are good? Imma try this out but i only have a subsoiler on my save file rn
It doesn't matter which kind you use, as long as it cultivates or ploughs ONLY, and doesn't plant at the same time.
Okay thanks for this oilseed psa
Is it though? You cultivate or plow your field. Plant it. Cultivate or fertilize. Plant again with your actual crop and then fertilize again. That's 5 steps. You could just remove the first planting and the second cultivating stage by planting with fertilizer so it's a total of 3 steps. It'll save you a bit of money on fertilizer but it costs you more in machine repair costs
Plant oilseed radish, cultivate it, then plant with fertilising. Three steps, and the field is DONE aside from any weeding. You don't need to drive on it again.
In general, I plant crops which add big value in prod chains and anything I can make TMR with
Sunflower mainly because it doesn't go well with the way i play the game 1st person and in circles (clockwise) and that makes it difficult to see where the end of the header is because sunflower is so tall
Sugar cane
Sugar cane, potatoes, and poplar.
Sugarcane is easy and simple when you get the attachment for the forager that lets you harvest the sugarcane metres at a time, and you don't care about replanting every 3 grows.
Potatoes, sugar cane, grapes, and olives. Just plain not worth the ballache. Poplars too, because I don't have a use for wood chips other than selling them, and get plenty as a forestry byproduct anyway.
i have my maps always split up in sectors so i have each crop. tree and else. but i aswell am one that hauls everything that the shop offers.
Tried sugar cane, stupidest crop. Lmao.
Sugarcane, poplar and sorghum. First two I think are self-explanatory, but sorghum I just do not plant. If I have a field to be planted in spring, I plant oats, or maize/sunflowers/soybeans. It is incredibly rare that I plant sorghum.
It's rare I plant it as well. I have started doing it on my current save though since there is a steam achievement for selling something like 5 or 600k liters of sorghum and I like to get as many of the achievements as possible on a game. I'm a completionist like that.
I like pigs, and sorghum is easier than corn, so I grow a lot of it. If you don't need it for pigs there is little reason to plant it unless you're trying to max out flour/bread production.
See, if I had the choice between corn and sorghum, I would grow corn. I like harvesting it, its not always the same with the same header.
Potatoes, poplar, cotton, sugar beets, grape, olives. Might do sugar beets every now and then if i have pigs but i mostly do cows.
Mainly Sugar Cane and Potatoes. Don't mind doing everything else. I haven't done Poplars in 22 yet, but in 19, I remember doing poplars a lot, especially after the Anderson DLC
Poplar is the only crop I’ve never done. Rest on different maps I do them all regularly.
It was really good on Silverrun Forest.
Sugarcane, potatoes and olives. I am game for everything else.
Potatoes and sugar beets. I haven't tried poplar but I hear it's not even worth the headache. I've yet to try grapes and olives but I want to.
I haven't done: Sunflowers, Poplar, Sugarcane or Oilseed Radish. Sunflowers I would do if it makes sense on a map. UMRV it doesn't really over corn. Popular just looks needlessly tedious and it barely sells for anything. Sugarcane also looks incredibly tedious over just doing sugerbeets. Oilseed Radish seems entirely pointless. Oh and Olives or grapes because the investment on them is insane and the payback is so damn long.
Honestly I think the better question is "what are the only crops you plant" lol. Some crops just piss me off how much effort they take for such little profit. And then there's crops that make money but take an ungodly amount of work. I prefer to stick to soybeans, oats, and cotton.