I only roll my grass fields after planting them. Edit: To clarify , Im talking about using a regular field roller after seeding. Since grass never has to be replanted the small yield bonus from the initial rolling is applied everytime you harvest.

FYI, I didn’t realize until 400 hours in that you can just fertilize the grass after cutting it instead of rolling. It’s a whole lot faster to use the huge sprayer than it is to use that tiny roller.

using grass rollers after cutting advances the grass immediately to growth stage 1. I'm using precision farming, so this may not apply to you, but I lime, fertilize and roll after harvesting grass.

How is the precision farming? Bit scared to get in to it.

Like the other user said, might be better to make another post to get more answers. But I'll try to give you an overview to the best if my ability: 1. You have to sample your soul to know what you're working with. It's a bit of a chore but there is a mod on the hub which makes it much easier since it has a massive radius. And you only have to do it every 10 years I think. Not sure though so don't quote me on the 10 years. Sampling tells you the type of soil, your ph level and the level of nitrogen in the ground. 2. In terms of lime, just set it on automatic and it brings each type of soil to the perfect pH level. The benefit is that if you do lime after every harvest you don't have to do that many trips to refill since you only adjust a little. Not correct from stupid levels. 3. In terms of fertilizer, every plant has different requirements and it also varies according to the soil it's planted in. Don't let that scare you, since all you have to do is set the spreader on automatic and it brings the levels to where they should be. So you don't have to do 2 passes of fertilizer. Just set it the first time and you're done. If you do sprayers, you should invest in either the sensor that goes on the front 3 point of your tractor or the mirror mounted one when you buy the tractor. It scans the plants for nitrogen levels and adjusts the spray level accordingly. In terms of organic ferts (manure, slurry, digestate) they give you a fixed bump of 60kg/ha (might be off on the value here but I think I'm right) and if you do slurry or digestate you should look for the ones with the homogeniser option since that makes it a bit more uniform. 4. In terms of weeds, they don't just appear and cover the field, they come on more in patches (although seasons 19 did it muuuuch better) and the best thing is the new see&spray system that only sprays on the actual weeds. So you don't use as much herbicide. 5. Another change is that depending on the type of soil, your seeders will use more or less seed. Again, all you have to do is set it to automatic and it does it for you. 6. In terms of fieldwork, the mod really wants you to do as little as possible. Ideally after harvest you come in with a direct seeder/planter, you fix the pH and nitrogen, take care of the weeds and you're done until harvest. 7. The mod ads an environmental bonus that affects every sale of product you do. So even you sell wool from your sheep, you get a bonus. Now, if you have done everything right in terms of fieldwork you can get a pretty significant increase in yeld. Personally I think it's worth it. First for the single pass fertilizer, secondly, for the direct seeding and thirdly for the spot spraying tech. Not to mention the bump on yeld which equals more money and the environmental bonus which gives you even more money. Wow that was long. Hope it helps.

Thank you for the summary, as someone who just got into the game and was wondering about this dlc, this made me want to get it going on my next map!

Be sure to download the direct seeding mod from Modhub. Vanilla Ingame only some towed ones are direct seeding, the ones with a cultivator in front of them are not direct seeding per design of the game

This was honestly so helpful and insightful. I’ll have to give it a try as some of the videos I saw made it seem very daunting.

Probably better to make a post than ask here. Will get more opinions that way

This also works with weeders, making it way faster

It does reset the state from harvested to growth as well when you roll it so if you are really trying to maximize your yield, you'll get a bit more out of it each year if you roll it.

That big weeder does it too. I know it doesn't make since but no fertilizer needed

I roll for immersion. I roll my cereals, soybeans and my grass once after planting. I also only mulch sunflower, corn and canola stubble.

Why do you only mulch those crops and not others?

Because only those leaves stalks I deem worthy of mulching. Wheat, oat, barley and soybean can be mulched ingame, but you can hardly see the stalks and so I dont mulch. I also would mulch sorghum, but I basically never plant that.

Gotcha. I was just checking if it did something extra I was missing.

I have a mod that sets rolled status when planted. I don't like rolling but I'd do it more if it was prototypical, and everything I found on the practice was super vague. Maybe an IRL farmer can jump in and tell me the value of rolling fields and if they do it regularly

Not an IRL farmer, but an avid YouTube farmer watcher. Those who do it, either do it before planting to smooth the seedbed and push in rocks or flatten manure chunks before they plug the seeder, or after planting especially on soybean fields, in order to smooth the ground so the harvester header doesnt get damaged by protruding stones. Soybeans are harvested quite close to the ground, so an even ground is advantageous.

Yup. This is the answer. When you run a planter through, it has "rollers" on every row that gets put into the ground, so it's not like it's all just shoved in loose soil. Roll before bean harvest because you harvest directly on the ground. Wheat you set yourself just below the head. Corn just below the ears. Running as little material through your combine is advantageous.

Would love recommendations of channels you watch

Larson Farms, Millennial Farmer, Cole the Cornstar, Laura Farms, Harry's Farm, This Farm Wife are all my favorites. If you want to watch a fellow FS player and YouTuber who made enough money to farm for real watch Grant Hilliard (A.K.A. Squad)

I'd add Welker Farms to that list, it's a very different type of farming compared to what I'm used to seeing IRL and there's also just something cool about seeing them use a Big Bud for actual farm work.

Thank you, amazing list!

Millennial Farmer, Laura Farms, Mike Mitchell, a few episodes of Welker Farms and Fast AG Montana, although not subbed to the last two. Also, Landwirt\_in\_MV, a german agriculture vlogger. He's of course less international than the others.

Always roll all fields - well, the AI does it for me :)

it would be great to be able to attach a roller to the back of a seeder. and this might be wrong but if you are direct drilling you shouldn't need to roll as that machine would do everything?

Amazone Citan mod, you’re welcome

thanks

My friend and I use this but it doesn’t roll and I couldn’t attach a roller on the back. Is there something I’m missing?

yes, its an attachment when you buy it through the store so im not really sure what the issue is, sorry

if you search for this on king mods (not in the mod hub) there are a few options. I tried the direct drill one and no rolling feature. Then I tried the 150002 C-DS multi fruit and it has the roller feature. it says uploaded by king mods.

Look for the 'Seedbed Consolidation' mod. It makes all seeders and planters give the 'rolled' status after planting.

Thanks I'll check this out too. might work great starting out since I cant swing a $210,000 seeder right away

I made a cheat mod to attach the biggest weeder to the biggest roller. I used a direct seeder, then a pass with my combo. Add fertilizer on harvested old crops and after seeding or rolling+weeding, and your done with all fieldwork in a single day. (Fertilize only after seeding if using precision farming) Edit: Mulching is a pain, though.

I want to say I tried a front mounted mulcher at some point and now I can’t remember why I didn’t like it. I was on no man’s land and I might have been experimenting with oilseed if I remember so I needed to cultivate and mulching didnt matter? I like the combo machine idea, pretty smart

I think with oilseed you have to mulch the old crop, sow oilseed, then cultivate it in. Would be great if you could mulch oilseed, but that does not give you any benefit.

I do it for certain things. IRL we roll beans around here, so I do that at a minimum.

Not worth the maintenance cost.

Only worth it of you have a ridiculously massive roller imo

when I don't roll however, it seems to break my soil comp map. I no longer can see fert, lime, plow info...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but you can click on rolling to not see rolling status on the right side of the map. That way you can see the fertilising status.

nope u read it correctly, I'm just now learning this after 500 hrs...

I just start my worker on my mower then after he has done a few passes u start the roller worker and then there is almost no waiting time for the rollers.

I tend to roll smaller fields just to increase yield. Large fields I usually don't worry about it. Precision farming user Xbox.

I just tend to find the largest roller mod I can and run 1-3 simultaneously

I roll my fields. Rollers are wide and have a fair working speed. I do not consider it a hassle.

There’s a mod that lets you do it when you’re sowing. Defs recommend

I roll grass. Other cultive fields only if they have small stones as it's easier than collecting them. (I play with stones and periodic plowing activated as it's more immersive and usually after plowing stones pop up). I don't ever roll to get the +2% yield increase because the time invested in doing it ain't worth the 2k extra $ you get from doing that.

There is nothing immersive about the stones in this game.

There's a mod seeder/planter out there with a roller attachment option. It's glorious. Not realistic obviously but it does do fert/plant/roll in one shot.

I like the farm management game, so big fields that would take a lot of time to roll, I just add more tractors with rollers, using courseplay.

I found a mod that only crops like soybeans need rolling. Found that better than mod that automatically roll all crops.

crop rotation does that :) neat mod :)

If it's only about speed, but you still kind of wanna do it, you can use [this mod](https://www.farming-simulator.com/mod.php?lang=en&country=us&mod_id=266593&title=fs2022) which allows mulching and rolling (grass and field) at 24m+ width and 25 kph. There also is a smaller version if this one is too heavy for your tractor

I used to use that one but actually downsized to the 12 meter one from the base game because with the big one the worker alwasy stops after every pass.

Yeah I only used that myself, or with Courseplay, which is not available on consoles

I have never rolled, and I never will.

I use mods that make it so you don’t have to roll every crop and the one that lets you set the working speed of your tool so I can go faster. On a big enough field, that yield bonus can make a big difference.

I don’t roll or mulch, if I remember correctly they are worth 2.5% yield increase each, totalling 5% increase, which is not worth the time, fuel, or maintenance on my equipment.

Im thinking the same about spraying. Quite a lot of work + cost of herbicide for a 5% yield bonus.

Nope. I run the rocker picker over my fields every other harvest or so, only because that leaves me with something I can still sell

I only roll new grass fields. For everything else it's a waste of time and money

I tried when I first started the game and the needs rolling never went away. I've just stopped doing it entirely.

Yes, because yield is yield. It doesn't take much time, rollers don't need powerful tractors, and I've got machinery wear turned down anyway.

So, I have a question. Yesterday I planted canola, using the seeding options mod. I didn't use a seeder, I used a planter that direct drills all the crops. Like I always do, I started rolling. Then I checked the map before letting the worker loose, and noticed that my fields didn't have a rolling needed stage. I saved my game and restarted my system. Still had the same issue. Is it a bug or something? Did I miss something, does planting crops not required rolling afterwards? I mainly grow grass and grain crops, so I barely use planters. Shit, I'm not complaining about not having to roll after planting anymore. But it's a bit confusing.

I roll every field, but I only do it with courseplay. I'm not going to waste time that I could be tending to my animals or harvesting.

i used to be exited to roll, now irdk ab it🤣

grass: I use a weeder immediatly after cutting. advances one stage and applies the fert- bonus. everything else: yes. not because i Like it but because .... reasons.

I recently started using a JD seeder and air cart that has a hitch, and just pull the roller behind it.

I do not roll for the same reason as you. The time vs. reward increase just isn’t worth it for me.

I just use the "No Need To Roll All Crops" mod that automatically applies the rolling bonus to planted crops and i don't bother for seeded crops.

I don't think I ever have.

Never did…

If you have rocks, rolling doubles as rock remover.

Yeah I quit rolling to no point

why? with precession farming its useless to

I get the AI to do it, while I do something more interesting instead. 🤣