This was a huge help. Made enough money to buy fields 19 and 20 just from mowing around the starter field. Turned them into grass and since then I've been able to buy fields 10, 11, 15, and 17. I use 15 strictly for corn for the Big X for more silage. Fields 10, 11, 16, and 17 all are dedicated to wheat, barley, and canola. Also, if you upgrade the front loader tractor at the biogas plant to the T6.160 you can use a 45,000 trailer and move it easily. The conveyor belts made doing all of it even plausible, so much easier than using a bucket. I have the Big L mod and totally agree with you on the ridiculously increased grass yield and super cheap price so I took it upon myself to raise the price to $500,000 to slightly even it out. I worked out some math and the Big L produces worlds more than the Big M in mowing the same area. Overall one of the best FS15 tutorials I've watched, thanks!
Just wanted to say thank you for helping me getting started with FS15. Your channel have been a huge help. Today I picked up FS17 on sale for 40% off so on to new adventures :)
I was making small chunks of change just harvesting the same field over and over, I never paid too much attention to the silage and stuff like that, I was doing pretty good and I had 40 hours into the game. I watched this video and I made the same amount in 5 hours!! Thank you so much man. You just earned yourself a subscription and a like😁
I've been playing for awhile so I know a lot of the "guidelines"/tricks for starting up and maximizing profit. This video is by far the best tutorial for silage and making money in game. The only thing I would recommend different is to start out logging then move to silage so you can afford to start with better equipment. Great video, thanks for taking the time.
The most complete video i saw about silage till now!!! gongrats!!! just a tip..the numbers showed on the bottom left screen when harvesting is measuered in liters which means the volume collected
Great video. TY. My son and I have enjoyed Farming Simulator 2015 for some time, he's young enough to just enjoy sitting watching me doing stuff. I have no clue what I'm doing most of the time, but we have laugh and use it to tell some great stories to mum afterwards. This video has been a great help. Even though I cheat with money, we can at least make silage and feed the cows in a farm, and not just rely on the tutorials.
I really like your videos and I really don't mind your kids coming into your videos. I have it for the PS3 and I found this video by searching up fastest ways to make money in farming simulator 15 and that's when your video poped up and I clicked on your video and I watched it and unlike most of the TH-camrs I watch you are SO understanding and that's why I like your videos.
Thank you! My girlfriend and I have been having some problems falling asleep the past couple of days but we stumbled across this video and INSTANTLY fell asleep. Thank you!
Thanks for the tutorial. You can tell you are knowledgeable about the equipment and you deliver it concisely. Allot of others ramble on. My wife and son love the solar collector money stream, but I’m out to prove the silage way is the best 😅. May the sun shine in the week and rain on the weekend….
This combined with watching your "no mods" challenge helped a lot. PS4 here. The tip in there that the Tectron can suck silage and dump it instead of using a loader is a life saver. I'm one of those guys that gives up on using the forestry stuff because I can't lift the logs for anything. I cut the trees in my way and that's it. I just drive the trailer into the lake to dump my logs and reset the trailer to the farm :P
I just started playin' FS15 again after a long break. Great video by the way, very informative and easy to understand. I'm currently movin' grass with the 148hp Ursus tractor, with the mower on the front and the Pottinger forage wagon on the back. I have 4 fields in Westbridge Hills right now and trying to keep my farm as old fashioned as possible by growing a little bit of everything. And cutting enough grass to feed my small flock of sheep and cows plus fill up the bunker beside the cows to eventually start feeding them silage along with the grass. I doubt I'll get into chaff or TMR because of the investment in quipment, at least for now.
I've just bought FS15 about a week ago, so I've yet to experience the more expensive ways to make silage, but so far the first mower-wagon-combo has been a nice activity while my workers cultivate and sow the fields. Tedious, yes, but less annoying than having to correct minor mistakes I always make when I do fieldwork by myself :D Same goes for the selling of the silage, with the little JCB skidsteer
It's a good idea to use the FollowMe mod when doing this with grass. You cut the grass, and have a worker follow you with the pickup, then you just have to drive the truck when it's full. Very nice guide, I have never used the Krone Big X before, but now I will !
+Olivier Martel That is why follow me is so cool. I am not sure, but I don't think follow me was around when I made this video. Its one of those things where I wish I could update the video in place and add that stuff in, but TH-cam doesn't let you do that. Vimeo does...
Thanks for the tutorial. I got interested in the farming game on another channel, but it didn't have enough information. I looked up the game in search and found you. I played a few videos of your gaming and that sold me. I bought the game from Steam and started my own game. I remembered your biogas videos and watched them and now I'm getting ready to start farming for the biogas market, at least until I get more familiar with the controls and have a good starting bank for more and better equipment! Thumbs up! Oh, I already subbed and set for notifications. Thought you should know.
Arthur chapman, I found it easier where I bought the SmartTrax with front mower and the biggest LoadingWagon and just driver around the map and it fills up quite quickly. Time consuming but worth it. Love the videos
Just want to say big thanks for this, was watching your videos (and just started checking the 1 year challenge) had just got into silage from watching your vids (specially like this one) had got upto, don't remember 70k or something, then got great demand (had taken more then half of silage when it came) was around think ended at 190k with rest, had time to get another upto 12% full and fermitaed, now at 450k (plus bought telehandler to be faster)
Hi Arthur, Love your Tutorials, I would like to point out that if you watch the video on the Real Big M, the narrator mentions that the Big M has a dryer built in to dry the grass. I tried and was amazed that this model Big M does NOT need to be teddered for hay. you can collect right from the Big M and use it as is for Hay.
Hi Arthur, I believe I used this one, let me know if it works, also, I am able to tow a loading wagon behind it. www.farming2015mods.com/farming-simulator-2015/combines/krone-big-m-500-v-2-0-combine/
+cj labrecque - yes and no - you CAN hook up trailers. You CAN'T go do something else. The Silage Harvesters will not allow you to hire a worker with an attached trailer. Hope that helps.
Thanks for the videos. Since there is so little instruction with the game I depended on TH-cam. Now, I'm playing on the Xbox One so mods are limited to factory DLC's. I have needed up purchasing all but the Lamborghini tractor one and because of that I wanted to update some info on this tutorial. If you want to do silage I started like you by mowing then getting the pottinger tractor header. The difference was my next step up. I used the Russian forage harvestor, the Rastelmash or whatever it's called. From there I upgraded just the header to the Kemper one that came with the New Holland DLC. I tried the Krone header and the harvest or would move it with no issue, problem was it would not pick it up fully and it would drag on the ground so that one was out. I eventually upgraded to the New Holland which can use the Krone header. You also have to replace the straw collection header because even though the Rastelmash would attach, it wasn't able to lift it high enough. Unlike the issue I mentioned above, this one did lift, the issue was when it was in the down position it would cause the harvest or to slide kinda like if you ran a front loader with the bucket all the way down. My next major purchase came for collection when cutting corn. I let the worker drive the harvest and I found the JCB tractors to be the best for the money when needing the horsepower and have never needed a weight because of the balance. This let me overload them until I took this next step. I purchased the Holmer Terra Variant and the grain tank. Combine that with two Flegel Bulls and it gives you a grand total of 89,000 Liters. It has no trouble moving it up or down hills. Also the four wheel steering makes reversing with the double tipper configuration very easy. Only downside was I needed a weight to attach the Bulls. The other option that works well without the weight is the large Flegel with the dolly. It can be a challenge at times to keep it away from the header because zoomed outyou barely can see the last tipper. For the front loader to load the silage, I started with the JCB skid steer then eventually upgraded to the JCB front loader (best buy for the money). There is one other thing that makes silage SO VALUABLE that you didn't mention (at least not in any videos I've watched). By using silage at the biogas plant, you also make FREE SLURRY! NO need to have cows unless you want solid manure for the greenhouses. I actually just realized this. I wondered how the slurry and got full before I bought cows. I watched it slowly increase right after scooping a bucket into the Hopper. That increases the value of silage that much more. Its amazing how in depth this game is in some ways, yet lacking in others but most of all lacking in direction. Thanks again, love watching the videos and hearing you spend time with the kids, reminds me of my house. Both of my boys 10 and 14 years game with me. Would love to see an update to the silage tutorial, would be happy to help any way I can.
@@kingarthursimsI remember watching it probably about 7 years ago on my xbox I was 21 now am married with 2 amazing kids 28 years Olds I watch a lot car content but I make sure I always watch everything you post no matter what if you started posting other games man no matter what I watch
Crazy too because I own the deluxe edition and every DLC for farming Sim 22 but I barely played now cuz I'm always too busy and my kids are always on the consoles
I have never been so jealous as I was to see the silage conveyor mod you had, being from PS4 it figuratively kills me to know there is a better and easier way I will never know hahaha. Great Videos overall Arthur! P.S. My daughter enjoys driving around my farm as well.
+Brae A Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. I love this game because its clean and I can play it with my kids without it being violent. So few games are like that.
+Arthur Chapman I turned 25 in November and I'v noticed I just don't enjoy games like COD, BF, GTA, and Skyrim any more. Now I see myself playing Rise of the Tomb Raider, Portal, The Talos Principle, Euro Truck Simulator, Game Dev Tycoon etc...
ravenwda007 Part if it is repetition for me - I have been doing FPS since Wolfenstien, and I am sick of it. Also part of it is relaxation. I don't find stressing out trying to win and getting angry that much fun anymore. I usually play to relax.
It may be a translation error by the developers, but you use the whole plant to make silage, it just gets chopped up. The more mass per area you get, the better. Thats why corn is used, as it is a lot of plant in short time on a small area. Just using the husks just wouldnt be enough. Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch! (Merry Christmas and a happy new Year) to you and your family from a german Farmers son!
I see that now. I noticed it in the product demo video. Thank you for the info again. You have been quite a great source of information :) Happy New Year!
Man your videos are so informative and awesome! i've watched a lot of your tutorial videos and they've been such a great help and get me even more excited about fs15. i think i'm going to try and start earning money to do the silage at the biofuel plant. i know its gonna take a lot of time but it'll make the most money in the end
Arthur Chapman also a good way to make money is to put the oak trees (cost 7k) near the lumber mill cut them down and sell them (u get around 45+k on FS 15 on all consoles)
cheapest start up for silage I found was a front mounted mower and collection trailer yes your cutting area is not the biggest but saves doing mowing raking and collecting
+Calvin"Gnar Nation Ski Co." Vize - there is Ethanol, but I don't think we use it for heating or electric, but for use in motor vehicles. I think in Europe they are using corn for heating and electricity, which is something I don't believe we do here. But you are correct that Ethanol comes from corn, and it is the same procedure as far as I know. I am starting to see more Foragers in Ohio for sure.
I am from bc Canada and we have one of these Bio gas plants and it is not making bio fuel like ethanol or bio diesel it is making natural gas. We clean the gas and sell it to the gas company. But most use the raw methane to fuel generators
it is a smaller chopper but the rostselmash chopper that comes with the gold edition can hook up to all tippers even the semi trailer with the dolly and will not miss one corn stock if you hire a worker
Greetings from Lincolnshire, United Kingdom! Your Silage tutorial was very useful and I can now earn some serious money, thanks. If your interested to know where I am silage for bio-digesters were introduced last year. My area now has two small bio plants and the big farms are growing corn for them. Unfortunately they haven't yet built silage pits so our fields are dotted with giant plastic sausages until they have fermented!
excellent channel I just bought this game for the Xbox one and I cant put it down. I was watching this video (@22:21) you stated you needed a lot of horsepower to run that method. however I found out you can run it with the Red SAME tractor you buy for 142,000. I haven't ran into any issues with it so far.
Yes, the same does have 190 hp (which is high for its price). I wouldn't try the setup on anything smaller. The only issue you will run into on the same is that it will slow down quite a bit on hills
Just want to say thank you for this. I have been wondering how to sell silage. As i just learned can cover it and stuff. I just need learn how make more slurry.
Slurry in 15 is automatically made at the Biogas plant, when you sell silage Drive a slurry tank up to the big tank just right of the front gate and you see the slurry level - Cows also make it.
I am assuming you are playing 15 - if so... 1. Harvest your first crops and sell them. 2. Use your cultivator and seeder to plant grass on all your already owned feilds. 3. Sell all your equipment. 4. Buy a New Holland T6-160, A mower, A round bale machine, and a round bale wrapper. 5. Mow the grass, bale it, wrap it and sell the wrapped bales at your bale barn. Rinse, repeat. You will be a millionare very quickly.
It depends on which version you have. In real life the big m DOES NOT have a PTO. I use the mod version that doesn't have it, but the version you are using does.
Can't you make a connection of conveyor belts from the silo to the bio plant ? :-) And with the Krone chopper, you can put that on Hire Worker and drive next to it with a tractor with a large trailer
+silvergooddragon There are several out there, but this is the set that I use www.modhub.us/farming-simulator-2015-mods/multi-fruit-conveyor-belt-pack-v1-1/ - hope that helps!
+si barsby The Big M is really a neat mower - makes things go a lot faster, unless you have to ted the grass, lol. But yeah, Its a cool mod. I bet we see one in FS 17
Should u use fertilizer on the corn u r about to chafe or no and did u know u can hook up the forage harvester from the gold edition up to the semi trailer with the dollyea but not the krone
+battousaid1 Yes, you need to fertilize the corn to get the full yield. I didn't know about the RSM being able to pull the dolly EA - Thank you for that!
Hey Arthur, thank you for a very informative video. I've started farming silage, I sold all my equipment opted for the John holland t6 with front mower and rear forager combo. Slow and tedious yes, but loading the silage into the bins is a much more painful. Can you give me the link to the conveyor mod please? I think it's hard to find these days... I hope not Thanks anyway loved the video
So, for time and acreage, is making chaff/using a forager more efficient than just cutting grass? Grass is everywhere and costs nothing to plant or fertilize. Just curious if you've looked into it.
+georgianbents I should put in there "grass mowed with a forager". Grass mowed with a mower and pickup/loading wagon IS probably the most affordable, but because the forager yields 1.8x more than the regular mower, its much faster to mow with the forager.
+georgianbents Hehe, You are very good at putting like 8 different points in 15 words... I keep having to reread what you said lol (I am in a hurry). Ok so final answer - the most affordable is a mower with a loading wagon. However, most affordable is not always "most efficient". Most efficient would probably be the easyflow picking up straw. Straw is a free by product of wheat, AND is usually "pre-windrowed" by the standard combine when it collects the grain and leaves the straw, making it faster to grab because you don't have to cover the whole field. Second would be grass mowed with the Forager. The grass like the straw is free, but you have to get the whole field mowed to collect it. As I stated earlier, the forager collects almost 2x as much product from the same field as the mower, so right there you are better off with the forager. 2 for the price of 1 is always the way to go :).
I'm a grinder in games, so I don't mind repetitive tasks. I like collecting and selling silage, so I was wondering how the factors change when you can get 2 or three grass harvests from the same area(s) while crops take 2 to 3 times longer to grow before you can collect the forage. Have you worked that angle too? I ask because I have tons of grassy areas after cutting down a lot of trees, and I haven't set up many fields yet.
+tankarmor From a yield per acre standpoint, you get a lot more chaff from corn, BUT from an overall perspective - You have to cultivate, plant, and fertilize corn every time, but grass is free (or only has to be planted once) and requires no field maintenance, so its cheaper. It does require a lot more mowing and acreage to get the same results as corn, so they each have benefits and cons. I usually have one or two fields of corn near the bio-gas plant and then mow IF I need extra.
+Gary Breland Some players do. I hear that you can mow 3 times before you "fill" the area. Once you hit that third mow you won't get any more grass. So you could mow 3 times and then just collect once at the end of the 3 mowings
This was a huge help. Made enough money to buy fields 19 and 20 just from mowing around the starter field. Turned them into grass and since then I've been able to buy fields 10, 11, 15, and 17. I use 15 strictly for corn for the Big X for more silage. Fields 10, 11, 16, and 17 all are dedicated to wheat, barley, and canola. Also, if you upgrade the front loader tractor at the biogas plant to the T6.160 you can use a 45,000 trailer and move it easily. The conveyor belts made doing all of it even plausible, so much easier than using a bucket. I have the Big L mod and totally agree with you on the ridiculously increased grass yield and super cheap price so I took it upon myself to raise the price to $500,000 to slightly even it out. I worked out some math and the Big L produces worlds more than the Big M in mowing the same area. Overall one of the best FS15 tutorials I've watched, thanks!
Man 8 years ago, now it’s farming sim 23 and your videos have only gotten better!.
Awww - thank Marco!
Just wanted to say thank you for helping me getting started with FS15. Your channel have been a huge help. Today I picked up FS17 on sale for 40% off so on to new adventures :)
Oh man, you are in for some fun :)
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for this awesome tutorial! Really did help out🌽 Happy Farming
+Kontakt Glad to be of Service! It makes money nicely doesn't it :)
I was making small chunks of change just harvesting the same field over and over, I never paid too much attention to the silage and stuff like that, I was doing pretty good and I had 40 hours into the game. I watched this video and I made the same amount in 5 hours!! Thank you so much man. You just earned yourself a subscription and a like😁
Thank you Blake!
I've been playing for awhile so I know a lot of the "guidelines"/tricks for starting up and maximizing profit. This video is by far the best tutorial for silage and making money in game. The only thing I would recommend different is to start out logging then move to silage so you can afford to start with better equipment. Great video, thanks for taking the time.
That is a great idea. Like you I usually do both because its much easier once you get a forager.
Thank you for keeping mods out of your videos, making them usable for the console version for the most part.
+John Ryan Leduc You are welcome - When I do Tutorials (unless they are specifically for a mod) I try to stick with stock equipment.
Great video!! I started making silage just because of watching this video and now I am starting to earn some cash. Thank You!!
Glad to be of Service Jason!
The most complete video i saw about silage till now!!! gongrats!!! just a tip..the numbers showed on the bottom left screen when harvesting is measuered in liters which means the volume collected
Thank you Renan!
Great video. TY. My son and I have enjoyed Farming Simulator 2015 for some time, he's young enough to just enjoy sitting watching me doing stuff. I have no clue what I'm doing most of the time, but we have laugh and use it to tell some great stories to mum afterwards. This video has been a great help. Even though I cheat with money, we can at least make silage and feed the cows in a farm, and not just rely on the tutorials.
Glad to hear I was able to help you guys out?
I really like your videos and I really don't mind your kids coming into your videos. I have it for the PS3 and I found this video by searching up fastest ways to make money in farming simulator 15 and that's when your video poped up and I clicked on your video and I watched it and unlike most of the TH-camrs I watch you are SO understanding and that's why I like your videos.
Glad to have you aboard Neon! Having fun with my kids :)
Just wanted to say I really enjoyed you videos, thanks for taking the time to present the info in a well paced, well thought out format.
+Daniel Nightingale You are very welcome! Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you! My girlfriend and I have been having some problems falling asleep the past couple of days but we stumbled across this video and INSTANTLY fell asleep. Thank you!
Thanks! I think...
Damn that's rude. All he's trying to do is help people on this game
Thank you for teaching us how to do silage.
Very thorough, and you did a great job! That conveyor method looks so much easier.
Shane Edwards Thank you Shane - yes, much easier for sure!
Thanks for the tutorial. You can tell you are knowledgeable about the equipment and you deliver it concisely. Allot of others ramble on.
My wife and son love the solar collector money stream, but I’m out to prove the silage way is the best 😅. May the sun shine in the week and rain on the weekend….
You're very welcome!
Arthur chapman you are the best youtuber in my opinion
+Jonathan Goligher Thank you Jonathan! I am glad to have you on board!
The PottingerX8 mower has an in-built windrower.
Wish I found these vids when I started FS15, would've been of great help.
Thanks for making them.
+Crusher “CrusherUK2013” UK2013 You are very welcome - I will try that PX8!
I just wanna thank you for being so dedicated to this game man
My pleasure. I love it still.
Get a job
This combined with watching your "no mods" challenge helped a lot. PS4 here. The tip in there that the Tectron can suck silage and dump it instead of using a loader is a life saver.
I'm one of those guys that gives up on using the forestry stuff because I can't lift the logs for anything. I cut the trees in my way and that's it. I just drive the trailer into the lake to dump my logs and reset the trailer to the farm :P
hehe - they changed all this for 17 though - now silage does't get you the awesome money that it did back then.
I just started playin' FS15 again after a long break. Great video by the way, very informative and easy to understand. I'm currently movin' grass with the 148hp Ursus tractor, with the mower on the front and the Pottinger forage wagon on the back. I have 4 fields in Westbridge Hills right now and trying to keep my farm as old fashioned as possible by growing a little bit of everything. And cutting enough grass to feed my small flock of sheep and cows plus fill up the bunker beside the cows to eventually start feeding them silage along with the grass. I doubt I'll get into chaff or TMR because of the investment in quipment, at least for now.
Such a great game isn't it?
It is.
I've just bought FS15 about a week ago, so I've yet to experience the more expensive ways to make silage, but so far the first mower-wagon-combo has been a nice activity while my workers cultivate and sow the fields. Tedious, yes, but less annoying than having to correct minor mistakes I always make when I do fieldwork by myself :D Same goes for the selling of the silage, with the little JCB skidsteer
Why you get fs15 when fs19 is out
@@agrisimfarming Because I've only recently gotten into Farming Simulators properly, and I don't have a good PC or Ps4. What's your point?
I watched this in 2016 on Christmas
Your voice is enjoyable to listen to lol
Ps: so you just leave the grass in the silo until it rots and becomes silage?
Yes - you dump it in, compress it to 100 percent, cover it, and then it will be silage the next morning.
Dark Shadow he sounds like chef john from food wishes
Same its so calming
stump grinder
It's a good idea to use the FollowMe mod when doing this with grass. You cut the grass, and have a worker follow you with the pickup, then you just have to drive the truck when it's full. Very nice guide, I have never used the Krone Big X before, but now I will !
+Olivier Martel That is why follow me is so cool. I am not sure, but I don't think follow me was around when I made this video. Its one of those things where I wish I could update the video in place and add that stuff in, but TH-cam doesn't let you do that. Vimeo does...
Oh right I just noticed the upload date haha! My bad sir.
Great tip. As you mentioned, this can help you get your farm started and then still use normal farming methods to keep the game interesting. Thanks.
+Jaco Naude Thank you Jaco!
Still playing FS15 IN 2024 was wondering how to make big bucks Thank you so much man!!!
Glad this helped
Thanks for the tutorial. I got interested in the farming game on another channel, but it didn't have enough information. I looked up the game in search and found you. I played a few videos of your gaming and that sold me. I bought the game from Steam and started my own game. I remembered your biogas videos and watched them and now I'm getting ready to start farming for the biogas market, at least until I get more familiar with the controls and have a good starting bank for more and better equipment! Thumbs up!
Oh, I already subbed and set for notifications. Thought you should know.
Welcome 13th Bear! I am very glad you enjoy the channel
Arthur chapman, I found it easier where I bought the SmartTrax with front mower and the biggest LoadingWagon and just driver around the map and it fills up quite quickly. Time consuming but worth it. Love the videos
Just want to say big thanks for this, was watching your videos (and just started checking the 1 year challenge) had just got into silage from watching your vids (specially like this one) had got upto, don't remember 70k or something, then got great demand (had taken more then half of silage when it came) was around think ended at 190k with rest, had time to get another upto 12% full and fermitaed, now at 450k (plus bought telehandler to be faster)
Hi Arthur, Love your Tutorials, I would like to point out that if you watch the video on the Real Big M, the narrator mentions that the Big M has a dryer built in to dry the grass. I tried and was amazed that this model Big M does NOT need to be teddered for hay. you can collect right from the Big M and use it as is for Hay.
Now THAT is cool! do you have the link by any chance?
Hi Arthur, I believe I used this one, let me know if it works, also, I am able to tow a loading wagon behind it.
www.farming2015mods.com/farming-simulator-2015/combines/krone-big-m-500-v-2-0-combine/
Thank you for this tutorial, very informative and entertaining, just bought this on steam for $6.00 and I think I'm hooked! haha
Great game - If you have the money to grab 17 next time its on sale - its much improved over 15 and runs just as well on the same system.
Thanks, man. Subscribed! You have a great way of explaining these things, in a way that never gets boring. Keep up the great work!
+Thomas Terp-Madsen Thank you Thomas!
+cj labrecque - yes and no - you CAN hook up trailers. You CAN'T go do something else. The Silage Harvesters will not allow you to hire a worker with an attached trailer. Hope that helps.
thank you for making this video. I learned how to do silage from this video
Excellent! I am glad I could help.
Really?! That definitely wasn't the point of the video.
Thanks for the videos. Since there is so little instruction with the game I depended on TH-cam. Now, I'm playing on the Xbox One so mods are limited to factory DLC's. I have needed up purchasing all but the Lamborghini tractor one and because of that I wanted to update some info on this tutorial. If you want to do silage I started like you by mowing then getting the pottinger tractor header. The difference was my next step up. I used the Russian forage harvestor, the Rastelmash or whatever it's called. From there I upgraded just the header to the Kemper one that came with the New Holland DLC. I tried the Krone header and the harvest or would move it with no issue, problem was it would not pick it up fully and it would drag on the ground so that one was out. I eventually upgraded to the New Holland which can use the Krone header. You also have to replace the straw collection header because even though the Rastelmash would attach, it wasn't able to lift it high enough. Unlike the issue I mentioned above, this one did lift, the issue was when it was in the down position it would cause the harvest or to slide kinda like if you ran a front loader with the bucket all the way down.
My next major purchase came for collection when cutting corn. I let the worker drive the harvest and I found the JCB tractors to be the best for the money when needing the horsepower and have never needed a weight because of the balance. This let me overload them until I took this next step. I purchased the Holmer Terra Variant and the grain tank. Combine that with two Flegel Bulls and it gives you a grand total of 89,000 Liters. It has no trouble moving it up or down hills. Also the four wheel steering makes reversing with the double tipper configuration very easy. Only downside was I needed a weight to attach the Bulls. The other option that works well without the weight is the large Flegel with the dolly. It can be a challenge at times to keep it away from the header because zoomed outyou barely can see the last tipper.
For the front loader to load the silage, I started with the JCB skid steer then eventually upgraded to the JCB front loader (best buy for the money). There is one other thing that makes silage SO VALUABLE that you didn't mention (at least not in any videos I've watched). By using silage at the biogas plant, you also make FREE SLURRY! NO need to have cows unless you want solid manure for the greenhouses. I actually just realized this. I wondered how the slurry and got full before I bought cows. I watched it slowly increase right after scooping a bucket into the Hopper. That increases the value of silage that much more. Its amazing how in depth this game is in some ways, yet lacking in others but most of all lacking in direction.
Thanks again, love watching the videos and hearing you spend time with the kids, reminds me of my house. Both of my boys 10 and 14 years game with me. Would love to see an update to the silage tutorial, would be happy to help any way I can.
So glad to be of service Rick! Also glad you are enjoying the game. There is just so much to it!
Did you know about producing slurry at the biogas plant every time you shovel in a scoop of gold....I mean silage. :-)
Rick Frazer Yessir - Free Slurry - you would be surprised at how fast you run through it. I have used up that entire tank on 3 or 4 fields.
This video is so good .Thank you.
+Pissanu Pisly Glad to be of help Pissanu
June 19 2023 still one of the most legendary videos ever
I can't believe people are still watching this.
@@kingarthursimsI remember watching it probably about 7 years ago on my xbox I was 21 now am married with 2 amazing kids 28 years Olds I watch a lot car content but I make sure I always watch everything you post no matter what if you started posting other games man no matter what I watch
Crazy too because I own the deluxe edition and every DLC for farming Sim 22 but I barely played now cuz I'm always too busy and my kids are always on the consoles
Wow, this is nice. Bought myself the 2 conveyor belts and saved me a lot of time.
Tnx for the tip, Arthur ;-)
no prob. MUCH easier than scooping for hours.
Where did you get the conveyors
Great job on the video. I plan on watching more of them.
Glad to have you aboard Belelusat
Just an awesome video..thank you.
+Dave B Glad I could be a help Dave :)
Merry Christmas to you too Arthur
Merry Christmas Mason!
I have never been so jealous as I was to see the silage conveyor mod you had, being from PS4 it figuratively kills me to know there is a better and easier way I will never know hahaha.
Great Videos overall Arthur!
P.S. My daughter enjoys driving around my farm as well.
+Brae A Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos. I love this game because its clean and I can play it with my kids without it being violent. So few games are like that.
+Arthur Chapman
I turned 25 in November and I'v noticed I just don't enjoy games like COD, BF, GTA, and Skyrim any more.
Now I see myself playing Rise of the Tomb Raider, Portal, The Talos Principle, Euro Truck Simulator, Game Dev Tycoon etc...
ravenwda007 Part if it is repetition for me - I have been doing FPS since Wolfenstien, and I am sick of it. Also part of it is relaxation. I don't find stressing out trying to win and getting angry that much fun anymore. I usually play to relax.
haha, watching this today, 2 years after this video was posted. Merry Xmas
Merry Christmas Madison!
Finally I found a video explaining silage! Thanks so much. You're awesome!!
+david garcilazo You are very welcome :)
Merry Christmas and good luck
+Matthew Campbell You to Matthew! Thank you!
I just got the game and i like it so much, very good content you got there... Gained a sub!❤
Welcome to my channel Marleek!
We have ethenol/biofuel plants in the Chicago area. We do a lot of the work in them as pipefitters. They have been around for a long time
I am not sure our ethanol is the same as the European Bio plants where they burn silage directly to make electricity, but I could be wrong about that.
Very interesting video thanks for making it
Thank you Darragh
It may be a translation error by the developers, but you use the whole plant to make silage, it just gets chopped up. The more mass per area you get, the better. Thats why corn is used, as it is a lot of plant in short time on a small area.
Just using the husks just wouldnt be enough.
Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch! (Merry Christmas and a happy new Year) to you and your family from a german Farmers son!
I see that now. I noticed it in the product demo video. Thank you for the info again. You have been quite a great source of information :) Happy New Year!
Great video! Very informative and entertaining!
Thank you Danny! Also be sure to check out my Silage tutorial for Farming Sim 17 as many things have changed.
Yoooo your tips/tutorials are the shiz-nit, Thanks a bunch mate ;)
+EYUP Luvy Glad to be of service!
+Arthur Chapman ;) I have just gotten back into fs15 and am loving it with much help from you ;)
BTW have learned a lot watching your vids. I think they are the best out there!!!!
Glad to be of service :)
i think that the corn header is under harvester or combines because it does more work than the header would do.
I have found the new holland loader is more stable when moving silage if you lower the rear weight
I still enjoy this in 2020, Who is with me?
Man your videos are so informative and awesome! i've watched a lot of your tutorial videos and they've been such a great help and get me even more excited about fs15.
i think i'm going to try and start earning money to do the silage at the biofuel plant. i know its gonna take a lot of time but it'll make the most money in the end
:Still the best darn way to make money! Glad you enjoyed the videos
Marry Christmas Arthur !!!!!
You too Bugz :)
It is also possible to create Chaff from straw by using the Krone Big X 1100 and EasyFlow 300 grass collector head. Superb video. :)
very true. Glad you enjoyed it!
The Big M was in Farming sim 14 on the 3DS, really liked for the bio plant in the game!
Thanks this really helped!
Glad to be of service!
Bro this guys is really smart man! And ur vids are great! U just earned a new sub
Thanks Bayley, Glad to have you onboard
Arthur Chapman also a good way to make money is to put the oak trees (cost 7k) near the lumber mill cut them down and sell them (u get around 45+k on FS 15 on all consoles)
the bit about the European horn vs American horn made me LOL hard :) lived in both US and EU, and he couldn't have been more accurate :D
lol - glad to make you laugh :)
Very good tutorial, thanks !
cheapest start up for silage I found was a front mounted mower and collection trailer yes your cutting area is not the biggest but saves doing mowing raking and collecting
+Nathan White Agreed - If you are getting into it with a starter farm its really the only setup you will be able to afford.
😂😂😂😂😂 im 20 hours into fs15 and I just found this video. I have a truck 2 tractors 2 harvesters. Gonna try this.
Have fun!
Love your enthusiasm! Great video
Thank you Peirre - glad you enjoyed it!
DYK If the conveyor belts are still available for sale in XBOX ONE on FS15?
I am surprised that this is in my recommended great video nonetheless
Glad you liked it!
You are awesome in this game and knows very much, im new with farming simulator i just follow the helpline lol
Glad to be of service!
@@kingarthursims did you really sort this all out for us? wow
+Calvin"Gnar Nation Ski Co." Vize - there is Ethanol, but I don't think we use it for heating or electric, but for use in motor vehicles. I think in Europe they are using corn for heating and electricity, which is something I don't believe we do here. But you are correct that Ethanol comes from corn, and it is the same procedure as far as I know. I am starting to see more Foragers in Ohio for sure.
+Arthur Chapman I have this game and know what to do
Kenny Kiers
Glad to hear it!
how did u know my name ?
+Arthur Chapman we should play with echther
I am from bc Canada and we have one of these Bio gas plants and it is not making bio fuel like ethanol or bio diesel it is making natural gas. We clean the gas and sell it to the gas company. But most use the raw methane to fuel generators
never actually knew how to do this been taking corn to here thanks
No problem!
Great tutorial. Thanks! Should be worry free with courseplay.
+ravenwda007 You are welcome :) Glad to help!
it is a smaller chopper but the rostselmash chopper that comes with the gold edition can hook up to all tippers even the semi trailer with the dolly and will not miss one corn stock if you hire a worker
That is correct - the video was made LONG before the gold edition came out :)
Greetings from Lincolnshire, United Kingdom! Your Silage tutorial was very useful and I can now earn some serious money, thanks. If your interested to know where I am silage for bio-digesters were introduced last year. My area now has two small bio plants and the big farms are growing corn for them. Unfortunately they haven't yet built silage pits so our fields are dotted with giant plastic sausages until they have fermented!
+Thomas Bellamy I see the plastic Sausages here too lol. No Digesters in the States though.
subbed thanks for this guide fella very informative
+Andrew Ambrose Glad to be of service!
This popped up in my recommend
Same
Who else watched the whole thing? I knew about some of this in real life but not in game, great video
Thank you Caravite - Glad to be of service.
excellent channel I just bought this game for the Xbox one and I cant put it down. I was watching this video (@22:21) you stated you needed a lot of horsepower to run that method. however I found out you can run it with the Red SAME tractor you buy for 142,000. I haven't ran into any issues with it so far.
Yes, the same does have 190 hp (which is high for its price). I wouldn't try the setup on anything smaller. The only issue you will run into on the same is that it will slow down quite a bit on hills
Oh and glad you are enjoying the channel :)
Just want to say thank you for this. I have been wondering how to sell silage. As i just learned can cover it and stuff. I just need learn how make more slurry.
Slurry in 15 is automatically made at the Biogas plant, when you sell silage Drive a slurry tank up to the big tank just right of the front gate and you see the slurry level - Cows also make it.
@@kingarthursims thank you so much sir!
you have good videos thx for makeing them
austin white Thank you for your compliment, Austin :)
can you make a video of how you start a new farm then go into silage coz i would love to give this a try
I am assuming you are playing 15 - if so...
1. Harvest your first crops and sell them.
2. Use your cultivator and seeder to plant grass on all your already owned feilds.
3. Sell all your equipment.
4. Buy a New Holland T6-160, A mower, A round bale machine, and a round bale wrapper.
5. Mow the grass, bale it, wrap it and sell the wrapped bales at your bale barn.
Rinse, repeat. You will be a millionare very quickly.
Happy 2023🥳
Happy new Year!
capacity is measured in liters and work width in meters
you can run the collector wagon behind the krone big m500
It depends on which version you have. In real life the big m DOES NOT have a PTO. I use the mod version that doesn't have it, but the version you are using does.
Can't you make a connection of conveyor belts from the silo to the bio plant ? :-)
And with the Krone chopper, you can put that on Hire Worker and drive next to it with a tractor with a large trailer
+lepaul26 lol, that would be a lot of conveyors, but it might work.
Hi from northern Ireland
Helped me a lot thanks!
+Matthew Campbell Glad to be of Service Matthew!
did i hear you correctly you can get chaff from wheat and barley as well? what would you use to cut it
Yes - you use the same header that you use to mow grass
Where did you find those conveyor mod that you show at the Biogas plant that you are using to dump the silage into the hoppers?
+silvergooddragon There are several out there, but this is the set that I use www.modhub.us/farming-simulator-2015-mods/multi-fruit-conveyor-belt-pack-v1-1/ - hope that helps!
Arthur Chapman
Thanks. That well help lots when it comes to doing the silage in the game. and easier to do then scooping it.
Muco gracias Nerdmigo - very cool guide
+Jaz 249 lol - Your welcome :)
Shame the big m isn't available on the xbox! Excellent tutorials by the way!
+si barsby The Big M is really a neat mower - makes things go a lot faster, unless you have to ted the grass, lol. But yeah, Its a cool mod. I bet we see one in FS 17
Need one for the xbox!!!!
Should u use fertilizer on the corn u r about to chafe or no and did u know u can hook up the forage harvester from the gold edition up to the semi trailer with the dollyea but not the krone
+battousaid1 Yes, you need to fertilize the corn to get the full yield. I didn't know about the RSM being able to pull the dolly EA - Thank you for that!
+artkatpro ur welcome and thanks I found out on accident
+battousaid1 Oops, I replied using the wrong account, lol - thank you Battou
+Arthur Chapman that's funny
Hey Arthur, thank you for a very informative video.
I've started farming silage, I sold all my equipment opted for the John holland t6 with front mower and rear forager combo. Slow and tedious yes, but loading the silage into the bins is a much more painful. Can you give me the link to the conveyor mod please?
I think it's hard to find these days... I hope not
Thanks anyway loved the video
+Mr Smith Sure thing - here you go. www.modhub.us/farming-simulator-2015-mods/multi-fruit-conveyor-belt-pack-v1-1/
+Arthur Chapman many thanks
Got fs15 last day and have been playing it for just this morning and i already have the big x 1100.
Glad to hear it. Great machine for making money right!
So, for time and acreage, is making chaff/using a forager more efficient than just cutting grass? Grass is everywhere and costs nothing to plant or fertilize. Just curious if you've looked into it.
+georgianbents Grass is the best for sure, with straw being second, as its a free byproduct if not used by your farm animals
+georgianbents I should put in there "grass mowed with a forager". Grass mowed with a mower and pickup/loading wagon IS probably the most affordable, but because the forager yields 1.8x more than the regular mower, its much faster to mow with the forager.
+georgianbents Hehe, You are very good at putting like 8 different points in 15 words... I keep having to reread what you said lol (I am in a hurry). Ok so final answer - the most affordable is a mower with a loading wagon. However, most affordable is not always "most efficient". Most efficient would probably be the easyflow picking up straw. Straw is a free by product of wheat, AND is usually "pre-windrowed" by the standard combine when it collects the grain and leaves the straw, making it faster to grab because you don't have to cover the whole field. Second would be grass mowed with the Forager. The grass like the straw is free, but you have to get the whole field mowed to collect it. As I stated earlier, the forager collects almost 2x as much product from the same field as the mower, so right there you are better off with the forager. 2 for the price of 1 is always the way to go :).
I'm a grinder in games, so I don't mind repetitive tasks. I like collecting and selling silage, so I was wondering how the factors change when you can get 2 or three grass harvests from the same area(s) while crops take 2 to 3 times longer to grow before you can collect the forage. Have you worked that angle too?
I ask because I have tons of grassy areas after cutting down a lot of trees, and I haven't set up many fields yet.
a good way otherwise to know if it is full, is if he pipe does not move, to track where the trailer is, then it is full.
So pound for pound do you get more chaff from corn or grass?
+tankarmor From a yield per acre standpoint, you get a lot more chaff from corn, BUT from an overall perspective - You have to cultivate, plant, and fertilize corn every time, but grass is free (or only has to be planted once) and requires no field maintenance, so its cheaper. It does require a lot more mowing and acreage to get the same results as corn, so they each have benefits and cons. I usually have one or two fields of corn near the bio-gas plant and then mow IF I need extra.
Oh awesome video
Anything you can do to speed up the growth of corn or at least any activity while waiting?
Logging for sure - You could also speed up time to 120x and wait.
Quick question, do you just let the grass sit and continue to mow? +Arthur Chapman
+Gary Breland Some players do. I hear that you can mow 3 times before you "fill" the area. Once you hit that third mow you won't get any more grass. So you could mow 3 times and then just collect once at the end of the 3 mowings