No disrespect intended to the modders who put in all that work, but I've never once planted custom crops just because there's so little info about what to expect from them.
@@SpecialKLSX Agreed. That's the issue I have with the farm economy in FS 22. I grew up on a farm. We grew corn and soybeans but potatoes was our main crop. I'm pretty sure my Dad never planted anything until he had a contract in hand that at least gave him a minimum guarantee for the crop price. That's what I wish we had for the game. Along with contracts for doing farm work they should have contracts ahead of time for crops. To me it would be more realistic.
It seems the crop cycles should be adjusted. In Australia, we get 2-3 cuts of Alfalfa on dryland ground and upto 6 cuts under irrigation. Grass and clovers tend to only be once a year due to weather. When I was farming in the North of New Zealand we got two cuts of grass and clovers. I’m led to believe that New Zealand’s climate is similar to the UK and Australia is a dryer version of the USA. Thanks for the information on these crops, it would be good if in the future the crops could be utilised in TMR and productivity from them increases relative to the crops feed value.
the us is about as dry in some parts and where your at is weter then the western us because you cant grow dryland alalfa here only thing you can do dryland with is wheat
@@kabeljager6645 Whats the average rainfall in those areas? We get 20-24 inches in good years, Even in the dry times and drought years we would get 12-14 inches, albeit, most of it fell between late spring and early fall in those years. The drought years we got 5-6 cuts of Alfalfa and in normal years 2-3 is about it. Mostly because of when the rain fell.
I live on the east coast in South Central Pa, and we can get 4-5 cutting of Alfalfa a year, depending on weather (no irrigation because it’s not worth it) and “grass hay” you’re looking at 1-2 cutting per year, maybe 3 if you’re lucky. That being said, you anyone can edit the growth files and make it so that the ingame grass grows slowly, and the alfalfa and clover can get sped up to get cut every “30 days” as most seem to go with that schedule because it’s easy to remember. And we never took first cutting until all the corn was in the ground, usually memorial day weekend if it was a nice spring.
Theres a new update coming for the Alma missouri map with a change crop calendar for alfalfa which would allow us to mow more often like ...so thats something good
I thought this would be the case when i looked at all aspects on my save game, It really is the grow time that makes the difference, Keep in mind i was looking at using it to feed sheep and cows not for profit but this helped alot and confirmed by assumption :)
No disrespect intended to the modders who put in all that work, but I've never once planted custom crops just because there's so little info about what to expect from them.
What do you think fatmers do irl? Trial and error
@@Jonokramer07 No we don't. Trial an error is how you loose your farm.
@@SpecialKLSX they don’t just stay doing the same thing… how do you think wild flowers were introduced to wheat fields for pollen sting
@@SpecialKLSX Agreed. That's the issue I have with the farm economy in FS 22. I grew up on a farm. We grew corn and soybeans but potatoes was our main crop. I'm pretty sure my Dad never planted anything until he had a contract in hand that at least gave him a minimum guarantee for the crop price.
That's what I wish we had for the game. Along with contracts for doing farm work they should have contracts ahead of time for crops. To me it would be more realistic.
Totally agree
It seems the crop cycles should be adjusted.
In Australia, we get 2-3 cuts of Alfalfa on dryland ground and upto 6 cuts under irrigation. Grass and clovers tend to only be once a year due to weather.
When I was farming in the North of New Zealand we got two cuts of grass and clovers.
I’m led to believe that New Zealand’s climate is similar to the UK and Australia is a dryer version of the USA.
Thanks for the information on these crops, it would be good if in the future the crops could be utilised in TMR and productivity from them increases relative to the crops feed value.
the us is about as dry in some parts and where your at is weter then the western us because you cant grow dryland alalfa here only thing you can do dryland with is wheat
@@kabeljager6645 Whats the average rainfall in those areas?
We get 20-24 inches in good years,
Even in the dry times and drought years we would get 12-14 inches, albeit, most of it fell between late spring and early fall in those years.
The drought years we got 5-6 cuts of Alfalfa and in normal years 2-3 is about it. Mostly because of when the rain fell.
@@brenttonks4249 9.4 inchs is average
@@kabeljager6645 That’s getting pretty dry.
I enjoy learning about agriculture in other parts of the world. Thanks for the follow up!
I live on the east coast in South Central Pa, and we can get 4-5 cutting of Alfalfa a year, depending on weather (no irrigation because it’s not worth it) and “grass hay” you’re looking at 1-2 cutting per year, maybe 3 if you’re lucky. That being said, you anyone can edit the growth files and make it so that the ingame grass grows slowly, and the alfalfa and clover can get sped up to get cut every “30 days” as most seem to go with that schedule because it’s easy to remember. And we never took first cutting until all the corn was in the ground, usually memorial day weekend if it was a nice spring.
they did alalfa wrong for their growth cycle because in real life it can grow in one month and you can harvest it
Not being able to put it in feed mixers either I don’t get why people like these added crops so much.
Cool to have the sticker of
Clover/Alfalfa based , but grassland is fine aswell , and yes, they are a bit overhyped, other than starw-soybeans
the reason why we like these crops is because in real life you wouldnt only grow grass theirs so many more hay crops
Interesting crops great to see these added to the game
Wow, the only reason I did a cycle of Alfalfa was to use it as a middle crop for a crop rotation. Based on this, I goofed up and it was all pointless.
I grew alfalfa IRL and get multiple cuts a year
Theres a new update coming for the Alma missouri map with a change crop calendar for alfalfa which would allow us to mow more often like ...so thats something good
Does to growth type depends on the map? Bc in szpakowo after 3 days it says ready to harvest (and what is this ready1, ready2, ready3?)
I thought this would be the case when i looked at all aspects on my save game,
It really is the grow time that makes the difference,
Keep in mind i was looking at using it to feed sheep and cows not for profit but this helped alot and confirmed by assumption :)
I was getting $24,000 per 6 bales of 8000 liters of alfalfa hay. 42 bales per truckload x4 per field
Cheers man appreciate the advice and vid man 🍻
Is hay, alfalfa and clober the same % when feeding animals aswell?
I did not test that.
@@Driver53Gaming ok, thanks fornyour videos 😊
Um where do I find this Alfalfa???
A few maps have it as an additional crop type.
@@Driver53Gaming oh ok I dont think its on mine. It was mainly because Maize Plus was saying thats one of the protine foods for the chickens.
Wow this is so unrealistic!!! Here in NE Italy you can 5/6 cuts of alfalfa a year!!
Nice video and good information but make you days of the month longer and you can make it work.
Did you finger in what's left in the Hey Beller
It has been updated: th-cam.com/video/aHeinwUbFHg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JelsaFarmer
In the whole vid I didn’t see u harvest. 🚩
You really gonna watch a 2 hour video of me harvesting?
@@Driver53Gaming yes I play farming as well and wanna see what other peoples do and how they do.
I was getting $24,000 per 6 bales of 8000 liters of alfalfa hay. 42 bales per truckload x4 per field