Even with seasons on, grass silage is the hands down winner every time. It never needs to be replanted and you can pull off multiple harvests per year. This gives you a 3x or 4x multiplier on your yield and profit considering you seed once and just keep making money. Roll it the day you cut it and it’s back to growing. Want more? Always do wrapped bales. Pick up your entire cut field with silage additive through a forage harvester or (the much cheaper option) a forage wagon with the silage additive tank. Dump the grass piles back on the ground with the newly increased yield from additive and bale it up. You will make sickening amounts of money within the first year. Want more? Combine the grass silage process with sheep in the largest pen. Use the grass you are already collecting to feed your sheep and passively make wool to throw wherever you want. Sell it, process it, make fake beards or horrible tasting stew with it. Doesn’t matter. Corn silage is ONLY once per year. Grass silage for the win.

@bucketofsteam9260

2 жыл бұрын

Additive increases silage bale sale price? I'll have to check that out. If that's the case, I wonder if there will be modded fert sprayers for harvest state grass.

@FeigningAloof

2 жыл бұрын

@@bucketofsteam9260 additive just gives you waaaaaay more grass. It literally increases the yield, not the sale price of bales

@bucketofsteam9260

2 жыл бұрын

@@FeigningAloof I guess I'm confused about how the silage additive works. I'll have to look up a video on it... not sure how adding silage additive after the grass is already cut increases yield. Maybe I'm not understanding correctly.

@FeigningAloof

2 жыл бұрын

@@bucketofsteam9260 you put the additive in the wagon that collects the grass and it increases the amount of grass you are collecting. That’s how the game mechanic works. Then you dump the wagon more often because you are getting a higher yield of grass and bale what you collected through the wagon with the additive. Use a wagon with silage additive, get more grass. Dump and bale. More bales. More money from the same size field if you didn’t take that step

@bucketofsteam9260

2 жыл бұрын

@@FeigningAloof thanks for breaking it down. Gonna try that. Thanks!

Absolutely awesome! Congratulations, dude! I came to your channel by DJ Goham, you are together with 82's Studio on vacation (March, 15). You have a new follower!

Great infomation, and makes me think abit about how to plant my fields, to get most out of it ( also a thing you should keep in mind, is the lenght of the growth cycle ) some can have 2 crops others only one .. that would affect the yearly income per hectar ( Canola for instance would need an entier year to grow ( atleast on seasons, havnt played with out ) while Oat could be planted, then harvested, then replant to grass then silage that and that would well make you double profit on the field AND even save you the cost of fertilize on the cycle restart ( Marts, plant Oat - harvest Jul - plant Grass, do what you have to get that great, then harvest that in november, and roll it after, to leave a full fertilized feild to plant oats on in marts once more )

love this video, ive always gone for sugarbeet in FS17 and FS19 for my money makers, usually selling at the BGAs. ive installed FS22 but not played it yet, but this is really making me want to play FS22

Another great testing video. Thank you for taking the time to get these done as they are a huge help.

Heyy its back! Thanks for the video! Looking forward to the follow up videos you mentioned.

Sugar cane can really pay off with production taken into account, but the huge consideration is that the equipment costs are astronomical. Everything with it is unique, and everything costs a ton up front. Personally I like Sorghum because I can feed my chickens with it and it’s got a fairly high yield and sell price compared to the other poultry feeds.

5:41 potatoes and sugarcane get a lot less expensive once you start replanting them instead of buying seeds

Good video, and not sure if the information changed sinde the video came out, but theres some bad information. 1) Sugarcane is plant once and forget. You never have to plant again unless you plow the field which is unneeded. 2) Sugarcane is like potatoes and sugarbeets. You can use the product to plant. Its also only 380 for 2,000 liters instead of the price of seeds. This drastically changes your cost per HA to plant. 3) Everyone forgets, but poplar is actually a great crop now that the baler is base game

Are these figures per year or per harvest? Because some crops have a much longer growth cycle than others. Some can only be harvested once per year even with seasons off because of the length of growth. Or maybe Giants have done an excellent job of balancing ... high yield/profit for one growth per year and expensive equipment and planting vs lower yield/profit in exchange for more work involved in several harvests per year?

Amazing results and good video . Can also do all crops silage video ???

Good video brother !

Awesome video, can you go one more step and break it down based on how long it takes to grow each crop? Like you said, you might be able to do oats three times in the same amount of time as says…cotton. And then crunch the numbers and see which one pays out the most in like a years time?

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't do this step because I have seen multiple videos covering growth rate for non-seasonal play and all have different length for some of the crops. I don't want to provide bad information so I am trying to determine the correct growth rate for non-seasonal play.

@c3ptu5fyrproductions46

Жыл бұрын

It all depends on settings to

Anymore with factorys 🏭 you have to grow it all and then some. But thanks for the hard nose best crop list. Sell points also help getting some good ones.

Sunlight is the best. Solar collectors require no further maintenance once you place them down.

At the highest price I think over 300$ per 1k litres when I hand in 7bbale trailers with 24 bales of 150cm silage I net over 250k

Great video thanks for the info . Quick question if you use the silage additive on the wagon and fill it can you dump it and then repick it up and increase your yield for a second time ?

@jarnehorvath3535

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think you can increase your yield an infinite amount of times.

@dansiegel995

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarnehorvath3535 Yeah, and I'm not sure how they could fix that exploit. They would have to make a new crop called Enhanced Silage or something like that, which only gets the bonus once.

Good information. Only just found your channel. But I do want to say that I feel ill with you moving the camera around all the time. I would prefer it to be static.

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback.

you may add a time factor, how many steps it requires, how long each step takes. i bet sugar cane is the worst of all.

Grass silage is more profitable they corn silage. Becouse grass you can Harvest 3x a year. so in the end it Will give you per year 1/3 more then cornsilage

At 1:58, your Gross Crop Profit chart on the right is confusing, and can't be right. $48581, is that sunflower or sugar cane? Others like grass and hay, are confusingly very off. Did you have a problem with Excel sorting? EDIT - its perfectly clear later in the video, just badly formatted and confusing at this point in the video.

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

I was just trying to show an example of the information that would be covered. Was trying something different and it didn't really work out well. Lesson learned.

How do you plant Corn Silage? Corn Silage isn't a Crop type in FS 22, you cannot harvest a crop and get Corn Silage from it.

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

You can use a forage harvester on corn to produce chaff. After the chaff is fermented it turns to silage. I labeled it corn silage to keep it seperate from silage produced from grass.

GJ

Great video, but I'm sorry, Grass silage is the super crop, period. Your data is excellent, but doesn't take high/low price variation into consideration, which is DIFFERENT for each crop. That aside, Grass looks pretty good, but things like Cut Beats, Corn Silage, and Sugar Cane appear to be better. HOWEVER, grass can be cut multiple times per year. In fact, you can get 4.5 full cuts per year if you roll in same month as harvest. That means grass silage will net you ~twice that of Corn Silage, your declared best crop. Corn Silage, Beats, and Sugar cane have VERY high operating costs. Big slow machinery. Multiple trucks going, and the transport for such high quantities of material will result in you in fact racing to continue to sell, while the price starts to crash from your initial crop dump at a sell point. Bales however, even the stock in game round bale loader can hold 132,000 silage (24x5500) - and that is almost twice the amount of and trailer that you can haul loose silage, cut beats, or sugar cane. And with bales, you can pre-position them at the 2 sell points and be ready to slam them in ASAP once you hit high price. Autoload bale trailers will make this even more easy to do, once they come out. Bales however is a sore subject for console users, as they left the bale limit at 200 for some stupid reason. Its a shame, one of the reasons I switched from console to PC. For PC users, once followme comes out, its game over. You can mow, merge (or both with the big mowers), bale, wrap, and pickup all in a train which is linear. Beats needs LONG narrow fields to be efficient for the harvesters and their silly turn radius, and both corn silage and beets are limited to the harvester speed of 10kmph. Grass however, you are pretty much limited to the baler's speed, and if you use the square baler, it is 17kmph IIRC. While CP and Autodrive greatly increase the ability to do large corn silage and beat harvests (and dont forget about the new AI for transport, it will vastly help console players), followme will make baling even better. And don't forget about the groundwork required. For grass, 1 fertilzation needed, no lime ever - and mulch if you want. The rolling increasing your full cuts from 2.5 to 4.5 per year is indeed worth it if you choose to do so. No seed costs. Can harvest last cut anytime during winter if you run out of time, you can easily shift your grass cuts around to make room for other crops that you wish to do in between your grass. Corn/Beats require plowing, which is far different in 22 than 19. Long gone are the days of just using a subsoiler ALWAYS instead of a plow - now its a tough call to have to subsoil, and rockpick, versus slower plowing (assuming everyone rolls their crops after planting). Now it does help vastly to use the Lizard 6/9m subsoiler (which is actually a plow, yet another bug with it that somehow went past giants), is the most retardedly unrealistic implement in the game. Its HP requirements are a joke. But if you need to plow, and you don't care about realism, this is your tool - and they even had the balls to make a 9m version. But grass is still king...atleast until you get to a point where you have sold so much, you NEVER even get average price during high price month...yes, the game keeps track of all crops sold, and will penalize you for not diversifying and flooding the market with 1 crop.

@MusicForTheBroken

2 жыл бұрын

thank you, really, for a well researched comment on grass. Also to note: harvastore silos can make silage from grass and its 1:1 ratio I believe. it helped me keep up with the cow's appetite. i'm still buying pig food...lol

@dansiegel995

2 жыл бұрын

@@MusicForTheBroken No research needed, just years of experience :)

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

This video was intended to look at a single harvest of each crop. I did mention multiple harvests, but only to not detour players from trying the less profitable crops. A different approach could have been to look at a three year analysis, but that would only boost certain crops. I appreciate you adding to the content with your comments though.

@quinnbarker1984

Жыл бұрын

I think the mix of corn sage and grass silage is the best. You start by planting corn in April. Then chop it in August, plant grass in August, then cut grass in November, roll it, and harvest again in April. Maybe not quite as profitable but for silage volume it's the best

Is this spreadsheet available to download?

@Driver53Gaming

Жыл бұрын

I've got a few production spreadsheets in my discord. Link in the description.

So, to find acreage numbers we need to divide these number by 2.47. Source: corrected math

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

There are 2.47 acres in a hectare.

@MusicForTheBroken

2 жыл бұрын

@@Driver53Gaming cool, thanks.

But grass is all year long except winter Like March mow, April growing, may mow again

I find grass silage the most profitable crop if your playing seasons as you can take multiple cuts per year compared to Ron silage which you can only take 1 cut per year

@sdlgmh318

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, plus it's one of those crops that you can plant one time and harvest as much as you want

@cavemanbonk8320

2 жыл бұрын

ive been doing corn and grass on the same field, plant in april harvest in august, and without rolling you still get at least 2 grass harvests a year, imo if you dont mind the extra planting steps its probably the best way to get the most out of a field for silage, one corn silage harvest on field 35 on haut gave me 489,000L of chaff using the additive, and thats before any grass cuts bc of how my timing worked out

I want to try enjoying this game but generating money is incredibly slow and painful for options I've seen

@Johnnyy832

2 жыл бұрын

It’s easy asf, just make a solar farm.

@Johnnyy832

2 жыл бұрын

Put the time to 300x

I like starting lumber and oil companies, tho oils seem to have a cap on how much you can sell to one chajn

Grass silage wins grows I two months

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

During my testing I found that the grass takes longer than 2 months to reach full height which means you won't get the max yield if you cut it early. gives me an idea for a test though.

@dansiegel995

2 жыл бұрын

@@Driver53Gaming However, if you roll it the same month as harvest, it immediately goes back to growth stage 1 instead of harvesting. So, full cut grass can be done every 2 months, if you want. Feels like cheating though, because its so OP - I'll stick to my 2.5 cuts a year which continues to be the vast majority of my farm's profit.

@fsconsultantcy2559

2 жыл бұрын

@@Driver53Gaming i find most efficient cut as soon as poss , plant oat after winter having cut grass on same field then put grass back asap until next spring , same with all crops in fact the income from the grass beats the crops on all fields almost !

@fsconsultantcy2559

2 жыл бұрын

@@dansiegel995 goes without saying,if you leave your swaths till next time as they've killed seasons !! however the weeder does the same and is 15m wide does destroy swaths though so only use after picking up grass

@dansiegel995

2 жыл бұрын

@@fsconsultantcy2559 I never said about rolling over the swaths....I obviously meant after pickup. However with grass silage bales the work is quite manual, and I dont want AI drivers rolling behind me.

Poplar?

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Will be covered in a future video.

Normal straw vs bales

@Driver53Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Are you asking if there are different prices for loose straw vs baled straw?