WHAT CROP MAKES MORE MONEY? - Farming Simulator 19 Test Video
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- Ever wondered what crops will not only yield you the most but will earn you the most? This video answers that very question!
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From my experience baling and wrapping grass makes the most money. Fast to regrow and no need to reseed.
Very true, silage is a great way to earn money
@@FarmerCop or hay :) depends on price. Daily price always change. 😁
Horses are best.
From what i have tested silage from corn is a bit more profitable. But i have never try horses.
@@mjmj1328 you build one Horse for 2500. And Shell It for 50 000. And are very easy to maintenance. Water is free in River, lake, and sea.
after playing for some time, i learned that effort = profit, so the higher the amount of effort you need to put into a crop, the more money it makes. Sugarcane has machines for planting and harvesting with tiny areas of work (1,2 meters for planter 1 and 3,2 meters for planter 2 iirc). Silage with grass is a 24/7 crop, and overwhelming with multiple big fields. And then you have sunflower, soy and canola which are the easiest to plant and harvest.
I'd say soybeans is easier than sunflower cause sunflowers can only be sown with planters while soybeans can be sown with seeder and planters
@@MagnumLoadedTractor if you dont plan on changing the crop, you can just lease a planter, plant sunflowers and not think about it. You dont have to deal with byproducts, its just sowing, fertilizing, harvesting, selling and repeat
Important to remember also that while wheat and barley may have marginal profits over oats, is that oats have significantly lower quantities, meaning less trips to the sale point / smaller trailers, so it's possible they are more profitable after considering those things.
Another thing to consider is that crops require different seed volumes. For instance, oats, wheat and barley all need 500 liters per Ha, while soybeans only need 300 and canola 200, while potatoes need 3800 liters! At 0.9$ per liter, that's a difference of almost $3000 per Ha between potatoes and oats/wheat/barley, which for field 29 at 0.5 acres is about $1500, a not insignificant chunk of the profits.
At that point, your main limiting factors become equipment like needing lots of plows running to keep high yields for root crops, as well as the limits of the harvesters. Since the root harvesters tend to be much slower, and have much higher volumes, you're limited to the land area you can harvest per time, hence limiting yield. For instance, since oats, canola, soy and cotton all have relatively low yield volumes, but much higher unit price, you could use multiple harvesters simultaneously while alternating the hopper across them, allowing you to harvest a much greater area and increasing yields, whereas for something like root crops you are limited by the fact that your tipper is quickly filled to capacity by the crop, not to mention that the root harvesters tend to be much slower at harvesting in general
Only other thing to look at would be profitability for chaff, since I guess that would be pretty high but it would be interesting to compare it to sugarbeet/cane.
I was pretty shocked about the Sugarcane winning out. That volume is impressive. Great informative video!
Thank you!
@@FarmerCop I hear from others that sugarcane is even more insanely profitable when you factor in the fact that you can re-grow it without needing to till-and-drill every time.
All about yield plus you don't have to replant it so that comes into play cost wise too
Keep in mind that ugarcane does earn the most, but it costs twice the amount of time to grow and harvesting it also costs much time...
@@Harmnmulder Agreed, but no one is suggesting that any crop species is without overhead.
My bead on the overall game balance is that each crop type has at least one significant plus and alongside that a significant minus.
Corn, for example, has the drawback of (assuming you play with all settings) requiring a full plow after every cycle. Its plus, conversely, is that it yields _insane_ quantities of forage / silage.
My only point was that sugarcane's plus is that you theoretically only drill and cultivate once at the front end. Those front end costs of time / labor / vehicle maintenance / fuel / seed costs therefore trend toward closer to zero which each successive harvest. Costs of fertilizing / weeding / harvest remain normal, of course.
i think u missed out on an important variable. How much time u spent irl to sow harvest and all that on each crop. because even tough u might get less for some crops. sugarcane takes forever to harvest. The helper is bugged and it also takes forever to regrow. the upside is that u only have to resow it every 3rd harvest depenting on your settings. i mean it might be that during the time it takes to grow and harvest sugarcane u might have done 3-4 soybean harvests wich make it equally profitable. My point is the amount of time and work u put in should also been tested.
Also if im not mistaken the seed amount varies by different crop too. Imo its all kinda evenly balanced, except silage cuz thats always been #1. The more you have to put into a crop like time, fertilizer and expensive equipment the more you get out of it
not to mention the stupid money you spend on machinery, sugar cane is cool to have one a field you have extra and don't need that much, i would not advise to do on your starting field
Might be interesting to combine this with seed costs. I did run some planting science back when FS19 came out, with the following findings:
Science: for seed use - Ravensport Field 12 (11.09 acres):
- 446 liters - Oilseed Radish
- 893 liters - Canola
- 1339 liters - Grass, Sunflowers, Soybeans
- 1785 liters - Corn, Sugar Beet
- 2232 liters - Wheat, Barley, Oats, Cotton
- 16962 liters - Potatoes
What this shows is that Potatoes suck, though after the first harvest you can recycle the crop as seed, reducing your planting costs (though taking a hit on the profitability from sales). The Wheat, Barley, Oats and Cotton will remain consistent with each other as they cost the same to plant, but could end up competing with Potatoes due to the cost of potato seed. While the other crops will get a bump in profitability as the seed requirements drop.
For a starting farmer, who may be cash poor after buying land and equipment, Canola may be the best starting crop as it costs the least per acre to plant, yield may not be the best - obviously, if you have the cash then it really doesn't matter which crop you plant.
Oilseed radish is a very cheap fertilizer option, when compared with other forms, however it's growth is 1.5x other crops, so that is time spent not making income for your farm - I tend to skip OSR in normal game mode, because you make the most income with high turnover of fields. However, seasons, where you have "months" go by between harvest and planting, putting OSR in the ground can be very worthwhile, giving non-monetary benefit when you can't be actively growing cash!! The other factor for seasons is if you cannot afford a baler (or justify the cost of one), then there's no financial benefit from making straw. (I've wasted money buying or renting a baler and not covering that cost with the straw produced).
Neil this is fantastic information thank you for taking the time to comment and put it out there for people I really appreciate it
You can buy pallets of potatoes and use them instead of seeds for first planting it cuts the costs a lot
This needed another couple columns, time invested and profit per hour.
The goal of this test was just to see what the yield and money earned would be in a specific area
If time and the cost of equipment was a factor there is no chans any rootcrop would be anywhere close to the top. to recuperate the cost of the equipment u would need an above medium/big field if not it would take forever to get your money back. Even so i will never again harvest potatos/sugarbeat without a mod that adds working width.
And investment in seed. As different crops require different amount of seed per hectare and therefore have a different cost per hectare to grow them.
For example potatoes require an insane amount of seed stock, soy requires not that much but more than wheat.
Barley requires more than wheat but not a lot more.
@@jwenting Potatoes can be used to plant potatoes. As for seed, 200-500l of seed will get you 5000-8000l of product, and sugarcane is bought to plant at a cost below what you can sell it for.
Exactly. The reason why soybeans seam so profitable is because with oats, barley and wheat you need to have the straw sold before they are better than soybeans. Cotton is very slow to harvest. Potatoes, sugarcane and sugarbeets are a lot of work both plowing, sowing, harvesting and selling due to the endless drives from the field to sell point. Soybeans have a high price and low yield, so you don’t have to drive so much back and forth and it’s very easy to bang out a big field of beans instead of potatoes which in my experience takes up to 3-5 times longer than soybeans
Necro post but I been playing this ALOT. And, in terms of money to effort ratio. I go in this order for me.... 1. Cotton (hands-down, 93K a bale, 3 smallish fields) 2. Buying, then chopping down forests, plant one, while the other is being processed, get the autoloading trailer mod for semis. MUST have. 3. Soybeans. 4. Canola/Wheat worst case, if I'm bored.
Just as I thought. Wheat, with its lowest price, is the leader among the basic crops, due to higher yield. Soy fooled me...
Thanks for the research.
I think in general play the lesson from this is diversify your crops as much as your equipment allows you to then you'll always have some crop to sell at a high price.
I tend to plant a cereal crop in one field and canola/soy in a second field with corn/sunflowers in a third
I guess if you can afford the potato/beet/sugarcane/cotton equipment you can do another field in those too.
Once your harvests are in at least one of the crops will likely have a high price immediately the rest can sit in the silo / bunker until they're high.
I just sow all fields with one crop(excluding root crops grass and oilseed radish and corn for silage)and rotate each time
Cool video. And surprising results. I never grew potatoes and sugar beets because it requires much more equipment. And I was also going by low sell prices. But I later realized the size of field matters after doing cotton. Which I sold one harvest for 128 grand from huge field. And I realized things like wheat and barley you get more from than say soybean or Sunflower from same field. Which may net you more.
I would agree with some comments here about factoring in equipment, seeds and labor. Sugarcane is great and regrows but requires pricey seeds, a long grow time and massive yield requires more / specialized transportation. Labor would be good to see too. The labor required to harvest sugarcane has to be at least 10x what is required for standard grains. Soy was in the middle, but using standard harvesting heads, plus less transportation significantly reduces cost.
That all being said, great work!
Definitely agree, definitely more factors to consider :)
As someone new to this game I found this very useful! Mostly that different crops have different yield volumes on the same sized field! Which is not something the game tells you nor I found easily till I saw this video! I kept doing soybeans because they had the highest prices per 1000L, but I knew it couldn't be that simple! Thanks!
ive been playing since 2015 and never knew it either, i thought i was so smart only doing soybeans
Thanks for doing a test, while it can vary from map to map it still gives an indication as to what crops can earn. Also, when taking account of fertilizer costs, margins could be even smaller.
You are welcome! Very true,the yield numbers can hopefully be applied to other situations to help decide the best crops tp do
There’s a BGA on modhub that pays 900 per 1000 litres for potato’s and sugar beets so that’s some serious money there
currently only planting and harvesting soybeans as i thought they make the most money. i used the two starting fields and after going over it with lime and two fertilizer runs i’ll get around 8000L of soybeans, which i usually hold until the price is around 1,600-1,700/1000L, and i’ll sell all of my soybeans. each modded trailer load (15000L) sells for 25,500 at 1,700 or 24,000 at 1,600. i guess i’ll have to rethink the basic wheat and barley and sell the straw bales
Regardless of the individual crop prices, this is a great comparison of crop yield per area. Thanks for taking the time to do this, I've always wondered how they compare exactly!
You are welcome Nick! And that is the beauty of it you can plug in whatever prices you want into the table now :)
Was expecting more from Oats. Also really thought Oats would give substantially more straw than Wheat or Barley. Surprising.
Cost of seed for potatoes 🥔 eats into that profit too.
Good video farmer cop.
Oats used to be VERY bad, like half Barley. It was only usable when used as horse feed.
Cotton used to be real poor, too, about a third of the current price, and so most people didn't use it at all, it just was never worth it.
Same here i thoughts would do better. Very true potatoes ckst a boatload to plant unless you are using potatoes from a previous harvest haha
Oats price is actually a lot higher than the other cereal crops I think his average must have been at a bad time in-game.
Price charts Im using I dont sell them for any less than
Wheat: 800/kl
Barley: 750/kl
Oats: 1350/kl
These prices have served me well, as you can see Oats is actually a lot higher per litre and by my math its the best gross profit crop (including straw) outside of root crops and cotton (which need expensive equipment)
Note: These are my own average selling prices so its basically luck based but usually at least one market offers near to these prices
Technically trees make the best money, second to poplars and sugarcane.
Still really surprised how much I learned from this channel let alone this video all because of the straw being worth money I’ve actually been doing bails too
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@@madman1532 yes
@@madman1532 what about it xd
Really good info here thanks! I'm shocked that soybeans and canola are so low! Looks like I need to plant good old wheat and sugarcane! Who knew lol
Next question. What about the time it takes to harvest it all with the best machine setup???
I wait for the soy to reach the price of 1800-2000 per one thousand liters, otherwise it's kind of wasted
That is true, I do that to if I have some is wait for a good price
Wait longer I've had over 3 k before now multiple times and wait for eggs to be above 5 k just push them into a pile and store soybeans in silos until ur price is right otherwise its all for nothing. And great demand doesn't always mean best price either.
@@rob1loxley Soybean over 3k sounds like economy on easy. I think this video is on normal economy which is 2/3 the price of easy. With hard being 1/3 the price of easy.
Oats is probably the best since it's nearly as expensive as canola and it gives you straw
Very true, that straw tips it into a good price range
America only an extra 30k if you use mods and a harvester for 9100 dollars got added to modhub the other day so for everything you're spending at least 60k for all the equipment excluding the land costs as long as you have some decent mods
America I'm on console so yea not having the same mods as I do shouldn't be an issue
I think corn cuz you can also turn it into Silage
Yearly is way less tho
Dude this is so good.
Slow and boring, but i agree, silage is the way to go.
Make a field big enough for 200 bales of grass (max limit on console), or more, i have 2 currently.
Grab a decent tractor, maybe 500hp. I downloaded the mod for the base game mower with ability to swath, but theres one in the dlc pack if you dont want to use it, same thing (almost). With the modded one, you can attach both mower parts to the front, and the fast baler to the rear.
At good prices (easy economy), 200 bales = 500k plus. Not a good price that day? Mow it anyway. Grass stays on the field in that swath. 2 days of mowing and youll harvest at about 5km an hour, but itll be worth 1m+. Not a good price the second day? Repeat as long as necessary.
Would 100% recommend both the mod mower and mod autoloading round bale trailer (holds 54), as well as more than one tractor mowing/baling at a time, but up to you.
90% automated process, all you have to do is transport the bales, can do whatever else you like while you wait.
how much did it cost to seed and fertilize the field? isnt this just revenue and not profit?
Sugar beets are pretty good when the price hits $450 per 1000. I have the modded silo that holds 1.5 Mil liters so I just fill that up and wait on the prices.
I'd like to see a video like this for seasons.
Eventually I will do a seasons tutorial series and test video series
I agree silage is great if your using grass try the mower vehile
Sugarcane is high but it takes a long time for it to grow and to harvest. But sugarcane doesn't need to be replanted as often. Really so many variables. Farmer Cop you've done a great job!
Amen to that tons of variables haha to consider when trying to decide the best crop to do for a farm
Sugarcane looks like the worst. 100k litres from that tiny field means shipping that stuff around in bulk. It's already bad enough dealing with taters and beets but sugarcane is crazy.
Cotton was my biggest surprise from all this although it's a bit of an odd one since you can only sell in chunks that match the bales so smaller fields can go entire harvests without any saleable crop.
Awesome Video! Always been interested in knowing this! Keep them coming! :)
it depends on a few factors but the ones i have found have been canola, soybeans and sunflowers.
I know I'm a little late but I still only have fs19 and I find that these are the crops that sell best, at least on ravenport
you should also add time to grow and harvest. I am more interested which crop makes most money per time
Wheat,Barley,Oats have an extra step attached to them which is very time consuming. Collecting the Straw or making bales. It takes hours.
Soyabeans are rhe easiest in my opinion.
when you are starting just from the Beginning and who are new to games and will have that headers for only couple of crop Canola is a best option and after getting the baling tech wheat and barley is a best option.
If you look online there's a few price charts that have the maximum prices on them, pretty sure it's a hard limit so it won't go past them.
Recalculatin em
1. Sugarcane: 50,516
2. Potato: 28,416
3. Sugarbeet: 28,206
4. Cotton: 24,912
5. Oat: 12,842 + 6,024 = 18,866
6. Wheat: 12,011 + 6,035 = 18,046
7. Barley: 12,003 + 6,018 = 18,021
8. Soy: 14,016
9. Sunflower: 14,011
10. Corn: 13,999
11. Canola: 13,997
Wonder if mods like maizeplus and whatever the one that adds extra strawtypes balance it a little more
I cashed in all my sunflowers (158k liters) for 1,400ish an received over 352K took some to build up that much but was worth it than bought a sugar beet harvester and gathered 1.5mil litters in a single harvest (field 8 ravenport) and struggling to sell it for the price I’m aiming for, haven’t tried cotton yet and that may be my next big buy for a machine cause I want the expensive John Deere one lol
Real good vid bro like how i have 25682 k soya beans and haven't toched them yet,
Btw you'r intro is insane!!!
Keep it up.
Thanks!
How about cost per time unit? - if it takes twice as long to harvest potatoes than to bring in Oats for example, what then is the profitability? - imo profit is time based
Just for fun: The Helper will plant not less than 231 !! Trees on field 29, which sale for about 2900 each (on easy). At least you make 680.000 of it. Now we need silage and popplers value and were complete.
That is very true forestry is extremely profitable :)
I liked the video tho wish you had added planting cost in to it
Sugarbeets it is! Sugarcane looks like it takes way too long to plant and harvest, correct me if I'm wrong.
Sugarcane does make more BUT does take a lot of work haha
The results are surprising. However I still believe if you have a bigger field then cotton will always be the winner. As it’s the best paying crop that takes the less time. Compared to Root crops and sugarcane which are slower processes
Time needed is a very big deal and great point you bring up. Cotton definitely is less labor intensive than some of the others
@@FarmerCop A 45 foot header at 6mph beats out a 20 foot (6m) header at 6mph or even 9mph (if you were using a helianthus) Corn maxes out at 12m (40ft), as does the helianthus (40ft again). Corn wants ploughing, though. On a BIG field, you may find it worth not bothering with ploughing if you're going with silage, and cropping at the last growing stage to save time.
Sugar beets wins as sugarcane takes double time to win ,also no popla!!!
Any crop can be the most profitable it just depends on how much yield you get and when you sell it
I think you might have under-valued canola, I think a better average would have been 1500 or higher. thats what I usually see it around. Great info though!
That may be true, just estimates i used haha. You are welcome :)
Interesting. I play on lone oak map with seasons and with the fields I have now I make the most with soybeans, canola is second, then corn, and then wheat, barley and oats. Haven't tried the other crops yet 🤔
I like to have fun with sugacane 😁 it takes time to grow and I do logs and animals in meantime 😂👍
Thanks for taking the time to do this. I would add that sugar cane takes a long time to grow, and to harvest. So, how many times could you grow and harvest something else (like oats) in that same amount of time? Maybe that's a reason you get so much money from it???
Awesome
Thx 4 the advice
Your welcome :)
Can you do a test to see what the most profitable log length per price is to sell to lumber mills?
I did a bit of testing a while back and had findings suggesting that 7m and 8m were the highest selling prices, but I could be wrong.
If your want to test it and see what you get, a great way to test this would be to have a saved game with a single tree that's fully grown.
Then you could use a tree harvester and cut the tree into all the various lengths available (I recommend using the Ponsse Buffalo Dual since it can cut trees into log lengths of 1m - 15m) and then transport each piece of the same tree to the log sell points. Start with a whole tree (branches not trimmed), then a bare tree,) then go down the line starting with 1m.
Once you record a sell price, reload and test the next length. Bonus: See if each log size differs in yield if you send them through woodchippers.
I've often wondered if it is more profitable to sell trees in long log lengths or to simply chip them instead of selling as logs.
Thank you for that idea that is a great question and I will likely post a video on this soon
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Thank you and welcome to the channel :)
Grass, cane and trees, highest in game
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Same bro
actually sugarcane is not the most profitable crop.
Reason being - you need to look at the growth time. Sugarcane takes 3 days to grow on fast growth. the other crops only take 1 day. So the others crops can make 3x the amount in your test.
I play on hard mode and I find potatoes to be the most profit. sugar beets are usually not as high as $250 but more like less than 200. potatoes is accurate at about $300.
To do a more accurate test is to consider growing time. In fact I think some of the crops are less than a day in a fast plant growth mode. Quicker turnover is a key factor.
While I appreciate the intent and the time invested in your testing (sincerely), without also including material investment (equipment, seed, fertilizer, etc) as well as time investment between planting and harvesting, you cannot really determine "Profit". It is handy to know the yield per crop, but without calculating cost & yield per unit of time the results can be misleading. Take, for example, collecting and baling straw. Yes, it takes a few pieces of specialized equipment to do it. But, more importantly to me, as a process it takes a significant amount of time, which has an opportunity cost that stacks over the seasons. If your grow rate is set to Fast the time spent dealing with straw delays the planting of the new crop enough to delay growth for a not insignificant part of the season. Is it worth the $2k from a profitability perspective? If you track your profits over 5-10 seasons you will see that impact in a lost season of profit. BTW, I happen to enjoy planting a crop of oats every now and again just for the fun a doing some baling, but not when I'm short on cash. My consistent low-investment, high-profit crop is Soybeans. Easy and cheap to plant, easy to harvest, and the prices tend to stay in the $1100 to $1600 per liter range even when you saturate the market. If it drops below that I will plant Canola for a season or two and let the market price recover. If someone made a larger Cotton combine I might plant more crop but it just takes so long to harvest and transport to market. And, as peeps have noted, root crops are hard to justify when you look at the profit/effort relationship. I won't even take root crop harvest missions anymore, no matter how fat the payoff and even using leased equipment. Nope. And yeah, I'm an analyst by trade so I really play this game mostly so I can geek out on tweeking profit efficiency. My wife laughs at me for running spreadsheets on it but hey, nerds gotta nerd.
You lost me at while.
I would say stick to 2 or 3 crops per feild you got and just rotate the crops and sell at a good price
it takes about 3 days for sugarcane to be fully grown, and ready for harvest. What about time it takes to grow? How is this an accurate representation of most profitable crop?
That is very true, the goal of this test was just to see what the yield and money earned would be in a specific area.
also machinery cost, the sugarcane harvester is about the same price as a potato harvester or a high end combine with a tiny working width
@@cmotdibbler4454 there is a cheap pull behind sugarcane harvester in base game as well whjch is cheaper than a normal harvester
@@FarmerCop doens't it have a 1m working width and need an additional 100hp tractor?
I'm not crapping on your results they are really useful if you have all the equipment already.
A good follow up video might be which crop makes more money for the time and initial outlay.
A crop might not be as enticing if it takes four times as long and costs twice as much to harvest and takes twice as long to grow
@@cmotdibbler4454 very true and i definitely agree with you, all of the higher yield crops such as cotton, sugarbeets, potatoes, sugarcane defjnitely require a lot more effort and in general more expensive equilment
Volume brings time you spend working, i would like to know how much time you spend on all the crops. If you toulk 5 times as much time for sugarrbeets comparing to another crop you could earn money faster with replanting a smaller yeild crop. In a real world you can apply this theory, in game world where you can manipulate crop growt time you have to account for real time spent also.
That is very true, the goal of this test was just to see what the yield and money earned would be in a specific area
True. In FS19 time-invested highly correlates with profit.
Very true, harvesting time potato, sugarcane or beet take all the long and travels for storage. I rather spend the time raid my horses or cutting some trees 😏
So if you add the Strawme mod, then Canola and Corn are great money makers.
Near as ive figured from previous games nothing but canola is really profitable. Never bothered with any of the production atuff because the margins were so bad.
Are the grow times the same for each crop in your test,? And if so/ not, would you profit more from doing wheat twice if it grew faster than say sugar cane and what is the harvesting times for crops? Can you harvest two fields of wheat faster than one field of sugarcane? Ect ect....
Great question, all crops grow at the same speed except sugarcane that takes twice as long.
@@FarmerCop thanks I didn't know this.
The prices fluctuate to entice you to plant different crops at different times... They pretty much all the same
Eggs is huge profit. Ideal for cover lease cost and emergency fund. Hehe. Ridiculous high price as cotton if play on easy and normal mode.
Haha very true
Well now I know what crop to do. Prob is as a single player crops like sugarcane is hard on a large field so i do it on smaller ones.
Sugarcane is definitely labor intensive but does have a crazy high yield
Cotton at $2000 is a high average if you ask me. Lmao.
First comment - yay! :D
By the way, does any of you play "Age of Empires II"? There is a TH-camr "Spirit of the Law" that analyzes all the stuff and numbers there. Farmer Cop is the same for FS19!
Another interesting and useful test video. Can't wait to see more - as always! :)
Thank you :) haha i used to play AOE 2 all the time
Anyone know how cost of machinery and consumables factors into this? Does the amount of seed, cost of seed and fertilizer vary between crop types? Being that its a game and there are so few factors that change the equation, I'm surprised I haven't seen definitive answer on what is the most profitable is when including everything.... average time of tasks, cost of consumables, and maintenance.... it seems like if you are "farming" cash it shouldnt be that hard to figure out exactly what the best crop is. sugarcane might be the best here but is it still the best when you consider that you need specialized equipment that have a limited tool width, meaning it will take much longer to harvest a field compared the a grain on the same field....hmm.....
@Farmer cop Could you make another video like this one for the new FS-22? Please...
Yes i will at some point :)
@@FarmerCop Thank you in advance
Thanks for the video it helps me know which crops are best to grow
Your welcome! Glad you enjoyed :)
Isnt sugarcane growing slower than other crops ?
Yes, takes about two game days while most everything else (except trees) takes about a game day.
Its interesting i think it was mr sealy p did the same test and got dramatically different results
Mr Sealy P did his tests shortly after the game came out. In one of the patches, I think it was around patch 1.21, Giants re-balanced the pricing. And you can always check the game files if you are on a PC - see my post somewhere in these comments for more details.
what about if you sell everything at its best price
Its all proportionate so it would be the same ratio
I like what you are doing sir. Nice work
Thank you :)
👍😎. Now I know your board. 🤪. Straw harvest add on, potato washer and sorter. 👍
Haha people just enjoy the test vids! All very good options to extend the profit significantly :)
Rootcrops may be the most profitable if only seen by Money earned per acre. But, you could grow Soyabeans Thrice or even Four Times in the same time and made much much more money.
It will take hours to complete a big field with like 1m working width.
Eureka Farm has some amazing equipments for Consoles though. I tried Sugarcane on it with a 50m harvester.
This makes Soyabeans most profitable per hour.
To determine the prices I would personally have taken the average of all the prices. Otherwise great video.
I thought about doing that and that is not a bad idea, thank you!
Cotton is not at the top? I got 100 grand plus from cotton in a small field
It may be depending again on prices
@@FarmerCop it also depends on how fast it grows ect. But this helped a lot
I grow soy bc the sell price is highest. But he has it ranked low. Should I change what I grow?
Not nescessarily, i used averages, every map has different prices for different crops and the ones in this test that esrned more do require more work
@@FarmerCop ok thx. So should I keep growing soy beans
profitability also consist of input cost. I don't care about cost of the equipment or what my time is worth. id be curious as to what the input seed cost is.
Nearly nonexsitent. Seed varies for most crops from 500l per hectare down to 200l. Potatoes can be used as seed for planting potatoes, otherwise you need 3800l of seed/potatoes per hectare. However, out of those 2-500l of seed, you get 5-8000l of product with the grains. Beets get a lot more, but they sell for a lot less.
The input cost of seed is negligible and barely changes the calculation, except when using actual seed bags in sugarcane planters and potato planters. Those two you can use saved product, which is a LOT cheaper, and sugarcane you can buy 2000l for 280, compared to 1800 for 2000l of seed bag seeds.
Fertiliser, increasing yields, makes a bigger difference, but on normal, you use up 200-350l of fertiliser at optimum spread, so as long as you are getting half of the spray on-target, you are going to be better off fertilising (or weeding), unless you can't afford it.
But the fertilisation/weed state doesn't change straw, so look to the cost of the raw product sans straw for how fertilising et al affect profit.
What about silage? Corn vs wheat vs oats vs barely
Corn yields .92 litters per square meter, then gets a 7.8 conversion factor to chaff, and ends up yielding about 7.176 liters per meter squared. The chaff conversion factor for the cereal crops is 4, and those yield .89 for 3.56, .57 for 2.28, and .96 for 3.84, silage per square meter, same as your order above, respectively. Grass is 4.37 and 1 for the chaff conversion factor for a total of 4.37 liters of silage per square meter. So corn wins, grass is a distant second, and oats is the looser.
You did not include the operational or capital costs, which will change the picture.
That is very true, the goal of this test was just to see what the yield and money earned would be in a specific area
Enjoy your content might I suggest seed consumption as a factor
Thank you! And i agree that can change things for sure
What dose the yield mean ?
That is the amount of a crop you get off of a specific field or area
i hit the like button buddy
Thank you :)
Very bad prices according to my experience, I don't sell soybeans bellow 1700, sunflowers 1400, canola 1200... corn... I don't know how but it is my worst crop. Cotton, I don't sell it bellow 2500. Playing with seasons, +200€/$/1000l for soy, sun and canola, corn gets up to 950 if I am correct.
The prices are definitely just the average or middle ground, I wait for higher prices as well which can definitely change things, I just tested it this way to make it more standardized
@@FarmerCop 700 and 600 for barley and wheat is nearly as high as it gets, while for soybeans 1000 is as low as it gets, so i cant agree on the average.
I’ve seen more than 1600$ per 1000l of sunflower and you can harvest them a lot quicker. So they are for the Time invested very profitable.
That can be true,i have to try to use an average price for tests to make it a testable subject
you got me back in to fs19
Thats good to hear! :)
I do corn
Fantastic video!
Thanks :)
Please add the to your analisis how many equipment you need to plant and harvester the crop. Sugarcane, potato and beet need more time and equipment. A lot of travels to store the yields...time always is money. 😉
Very true I definitely agree with you on that and those should definitely be considered in the bavk of someones mind :)
Great vid! I think you should do a more advanced video with a ratio with time taken to seed/harvest/fertilize etc to get a $/m. And include silage! Thanks and please consider :D
I do want to do a better video with more detail :)
Is corn
For me soybeans get me alot of money
The prices vary throughout the different maps
Very true
This will depend on the map you are playing and how the map maker designed the fruitType.xml and fillType.xml as they control both the yield per square meter and price of the crop. For example you can adjust wheat to pay $1000 per liter and lay down 1000 liters of straw per square meter, if you so desire. Seed usage is also controlled by the xmls. The first thing i do when I download a new map is adjust all values to reflect real world data.
I also adjust farmland prices to reflect real world prices for that particular area of the world. Most farmland prices in FS19 are as high as oceanfront real estate. As an example, in the state of Ohio average farmland is about $6000 per acre which would translate to $15000 per Ha. Most maps set the Ha price at $60000 per Ha or 4x the real world price.
You can very easily control the economics of any map you choose to play.
I dont know if i am doing something wrong but soybean actually gives me more money than wheat without straw swath🤔
Sounds about right. Straw makes up about a third of price of what you can expect from the cereal crops.
Just a small note 1000L is a tonne not 100000L