Crop Yield Assessment + general info
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:14 am
**NOTE** this is a work in progress, im growing things every day as i play and updating this thread continuously. thanks to those assisting (staalker and others) with prices on particular items, its appreciated..
with halloween approaching, this thread may wither for a few days, but i will be busy again shortly after the holiday.
***Standardization of fields***
this is grown on a merging of fields 15 and 16 (i plowed them together making one big field) using the starter combine and cutter, potato topper, potato harvester(120k one), and fertilizing the fields.
***Field Yields***
Canola yielded 13,265
Wheat yielded 26,642 2nd grow was 26,601 (accidentally forgot to change seed type lol)
Barley yielded 24,401
corn yielded xxxxx
Potatoes yielded 87757 <--WOW!!! **this took me over 3 hours to harvest on my field (ouch!) the 120k potato harvester is painful to use.. but still wow so many taters!
beets yielded 76926 <--not quite as large as potatoes, but starting out, with an investment cost of around 174,000 for everything needed and a 6 row harvester was far less painful than potato's.
straw from wheat: 32156
***Other Income***
hay bale(square) 300
hay bake(round) 600
grass bale(square) 350? <--- unsure
straw: 80 per 1000 (sell at the hay building at your farm, also can be put in the feeder at the cow pen (the feeder closest to the liquid manure tank)
***What i'm working on next***
Corn eventually. i need almost half a million for the initial investment so will be a short while lol!
*** Basic Info***
ok, here i will list some basic info i have discovered, or people have listed in this thread for a general pupose use.
Grass harvesting: You may use many of the pull a long devices found in the loader wagons section of the store, or a profithopper(in mowers section) to gather grass. Cut the grass (found almost everywhere) and pull the loader behind you with it turned on, and you will gather the grass.
Hay harvesting: you can turn grass into hay, by using a tedder on it (tedder section of store) attach the tedder and run over the cut grass, then collect it with a loader wagon.
chaff harvesting: (havent done this, but i assume it is the leftover product on a field after growing barley or wheat)
straw harvesting: use a forage wagon on the straw lines in fields, leftover after harvesting wheat or barley.
**Animals**
Cows: feed them harvested grass, to produce liquid manure(usable with slurry tanks) give them hay to produce manure(usable with manure spreaders) feed them mixed combos to produce milk(<-guesing here as i havent done it, please let me know if you have!).
Sheep: feed them grass to produce wool.
chickens: buy them, and they produce eggs. no care necessary. but you must manually collect the eggs to sell.
***Tips and Tricks!***
For some quick and easy money, Buy a front mower,(costs 8k) and place it and a low end tractor (must be an argon3 75 or better tractor as the light blue starters need a weight for the front and have no connector for one) at the golf course or the camp site. (i placed one at the golf course as it has 2 missions tied to it for mowing and the camp site only has one, better odds) and go into options (hit escape then click the right arrow at the top to goto settings) and set mission frequency to 2 minutes. accept the mowing missions at the location(s) where you have mowers only, just deny the FEL missions that pop up, and do them. with a tractor and the front mower(put it on the back of the mower, its easier to mow with then while turning) you can finish these missions really fast, netting you the 4-6k for the mission, + up to 3k time bonus. 1 mission almost pays for the mower you buy! as soon as you can buy a second tractor, place your second starter tractor + another mower at the opposite place( for me it was the camp site) and just let the money roll in. 6-8k per mission, with them popping up ever 2 mins (on a chance of getting a mowing mission)= easy money!
Try to always keep atleast SOME of your harvested materials in storage at all times. you will regularly get great demand notices from places, and these places will buy the particular item for up to 2.5x the normal amount. ive sold barley at 1.9x. it seems to me, usually what i do not have, is what seems to pop up, probably random bad luck.
Potato harvesting STINKS! lol prepare to spend a LOT of time doing it unless you have the money to buy the large self propelled potato harvester!
sugar beet harvester tip..there seems to be a glitch with the GRIMME ROOTSTER 604, when it hits 100% load, it raises and turns off, this is normal, BUT if you tab out and move your trailer under it, it will not unload, which forces you to tab back to the harvester, lower it again and remain inside it,for it to unload properly. a fix for this, is when it hits 100% and stops, lower the harvester again once, then you may tab out to another vehicle, and once the trailer moves under it, it will unload properly.
be sure to see staalker's post on page two of this thread for some great info on how to finally make milk, the equipment involved etc.., thanks for the info.
more to come!
with halloween approaching, this thread may wither for a few days, but i will be busy again shortly after the holiday.
***Standardization of fields***
this is grown on a merging of fields 15 and 16 (i plowed them together making one big field) using the starter combine and cutter, potato topper, potato harvester(120k one), and fertilizing the fields.
***Field Yields***
Canola yielded 13,265
Wheat yielded 26,642 2nd grow was 26,601 (accidentally forgot to change seed type lol)
Barley yielded 24,401
corn yielded xxxxx
Potatoes yielded 87757 <--WOW!!! **this took me over 3 hours to harvest on my field (ouch!) the 120k potato harvester is painful to use.. but still wow so many taters!
beets yielded 76926 <--not quite as large as potatoes, but starting out, with an investment cost of around 174,000 for everything needed and a 6 row harvester was far less painful than potato's.
straw from wheat: 32156
***Other Income***
hay bale(square) 300
hay bake(round) 600
grass bale(square) 350? <--- unsure
straw: 80 per 1000 (sell at the hay building at your farm, also can be put in the feeder at the cow pen (the feeder closest to the liquid manure tank)
***What i'm working on next***
Corn eventually. i need almost half a million for the initial investment so will be a short while lol!
*** Basic Info***
ok, here i will list some basic info i have discovered, or people have listed in this thread for a general pupose use.
Grass harvesting: You may use many of the pull a long devices found in the loader wagons section of the store, or a profithopper(in mowers section) to gather grass. Cut the grass (found almost everywhere) and pull the loader behind you with it turned on, and you will gather the grass.
Hay harvesting: you can turn grass into hay, by using a tedder on it (tedder section of store) attach the tedder and run over the cut grass, then collect it with a loader wagon.
chaff harvesting: (havent done this, but i assume it is the leftover product on a field after growing barley or wheat)
straw harvesting: use a forage wagon on the straw lines in fields, leftover after harvesting wheat or barley.
**Animals**
Cows: feed them harvested grass, to produce liquid manure(usable with slurry tanks) give them hay to produce manure(usable with manure spreaders) feed them mixed combos to produce milk(<-guesing here as i havent done it, please let me know if you have!).
Sheep: feed them grass to produce wool.
chickens: buy them, and they produce eggs. no care necessary. but you must manually collect the eggs to sell.
***Tips and Tricks!***
For some quick and easy money, Buy a front mower,(costs 8k) and place it and a low end tractor (must be an argon3 75 or better tractor as the light blue starters need a weight for the front and have no connector for one) at the golf course or the camp site. (i placed one at the golf course as it has 2 missions tied to it for mowing and the camp site only has one, better odds) and go into options (hit escape then click the right arrow at the top to goto settings) and set mission frequency to 2 minutes. accept the mowing missions at the location(s) where you have mowers only, just deny the FEL missions that pop up, and do them. with a tractor and the front mower(put it on the back of the mower, its easier to mow with then while turning) you can finish these missions really fast, netting you the 4-6k for the mission, + up to 3k time bonus. 1 mission almost pays for the mower you buy! as soon as you can buy a second tractor, place your second starter tractor + another mower at the opposite place( for me it was the camp site) and just let the money roll in. 6-8k per mission, with them popping up ever 2 mins (on a chance of getting a mowing mission)= easy money!
Try to always keep atleast SOME of your harvested materials in storage at all times. you will regularly get great demand notices from places, and these places will buy the particular item for up to 2.5x the normal amount. ive sold barley at 1.9x. it seems to me, usually what i do not have, is what seems to pop up, probably random bad luck.
Potato harvesting STINKS! lol prepare to spend a LOT of time doing it unless you have the money to buy the large self propelled potato harvester!
sugar beet harvester tip..there seems to be a glitch with the GRIMME ROOTSTER 604, when it hits 100% load, it raises and turns off, this is normal, BUT if you tab out and move your trailer under it, it will not unload, which forces you to tab back to the harvester, lower it again and remain inside it,for it to unload properly. a fix for this, is when it hits 100% and stops, lower the harvester again once, then you may tab out to another vehicle, and once the trailer moves under it, it will unload properly.
be sure to see staalker's post on page two of this thread for some great info on how to finally make milk, the equipment involved etc.., thanks for the info.
more to come!