Day 11 BROKE to BILLIONAIRE in Farming Simulator

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  • @TheFormalPickle
    @TheFormalPickle  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

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    • @thomasdyson8329
      @thomasdyson8329 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Suggestion! I have been doing contracts on elmbrook that double up with my needs. I just got sheep and do a baling contract and there's always bales left over which I use to feed my sheep. Just wondering if you could find canola harvesting contract that you can use to feed your mill! And also your not picking up rocks with your rock picker cos you need to cultivate first! Loving this series !

    • @fork168
      @fork168 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You should play co-op with your dad

  • @harel10102
    @harel10102 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +143

    You dont need to wait for the baler to finish wrapping you can continue baling once the bale exits the baler and starts wrapping

    • @fabiocaetano7661
      @fabiocaetano7661 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Deppending on the baller

    • @dakotashelden631
      @dakotashelden631 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I was going to comment that but wasn't sure if he knew. 😅

    • @Chuckyshobbies
      @Chuckyshobbies 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Exactly once that baler closes up your good to keep going and don't have to wate for it to wrap the bale.

  • @ferrewaeytens
    @ferrewaeytens 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    I don’t know nothing about farming sim but I love this series!

  • @SyphriX
    @SyphriX 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    That field’s baling contract is the best one on elm creek. When it comes up, borrow the equipment. It usually gives you an auto bale loader and a mower that does swath dropping, which allows you to skip the windrow step altogether. Also, you should do canola and sunflower harvest contracts and dump the excess harvest into your oil production. And also, you can use the borrowed equipment on other contracts as well as long as you don’t complete the contract where the equipment originated.

  • @elev8torguy
    @elev8torguy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Order of operations:
    Mulch
    Plow (if needed)
    De-Rock
    Lime
    Use a direct seeder/sower
    Roll
    Fertilize using Solid/Liquid fertilizer
    Weed

    • @thefisherj3392
      @thefisherj3392 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      for 100% yeild plough all the time unless you are using precision farming

    • @SuperDriver379
      @SuperDriver379 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you fertilize before you mulch and otherwise use this process it’ll be a 100% yield.

  • @kr46428
    @kr46428 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    You are a brave man trying to tackle that big field with your own equipment. The lease equipment from contracts is very cheap. I usually look at the equipment they are offering, and if it is twice the size of mine, I'm taking it. And I definitely never 😉😉 use the borrowed equipment to complete other contracts in parallel. They often will give you a pretty good automatic bale loader in the borrowed stuff, which makes transport so much easier on these big fields. Ah well, I guess we'll see how things turn out for you in the next episode.

    • @NicholasReguin
      @NicholasReguin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I usually try to play with not contracts but I definitely do them in parallel with borrowed equipment when I do 😂

  • @IDrawCars
    @IDrawCars 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    That's great that you got a sponsor! Especially on this series! It bodes for positive things to come!

  • @LuisEduardo-uu7ns
    @LuisEduardo-uu7ns 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Updates on my Broke to Billionaire save game!
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    DAY 1
    Year 1 - August
    New tractor (Valtra 8750) -108,500.
    Land purchase -156,264.
    3x large greenhouse -30,000.
    2x water tank -6,000.
    4x beehive (33 langstroth beehives) -76,000.
    Large solar panel -93,500.
    Leased some equipment to plant grass on all of the 3 fields and also planted trees around the farm -8,433.
    Year 1 - September
    Done some fertilizing contracts +13,992.
    Year 1 - November
    Leased equipment to mow the grass, bale the grass and transport the bales -12,148.
    Silage contracts +18,324.
    Year 1 - January
    Sold lettuce +13,471.
    Year 1 - February
    Sold bales +24,433 (about 10k were from bales left of the silege contract
    Sold honey +11,526
    Year 2 - March
    Starting year 2 with 65,500 in the bank.
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    DAY 2 (Coming soon)
    If you have any suggestions feel free to leave a comment!

  • @maxhernandez3247
    @maxhernandez3247 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You should sell the oil plant - your just keeping it due to the sunk cost fallacy, you would profit more from selling it and specialising your equipment and limit costs into one trade - Grass!

  • @georgehaddon-gill2726
    @georgehaddon-gill2726 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This series encouraged me to start playing farming sim, after a lot of mistakes my current strategy is Cows + Grass Silege , it seems to work quite well

  • @Nielsen2710
    @Nielsen2710 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Get 5 large solar colletor’s That's enough to pay off a $500,000 loan without going into the red😊

    • @Nielsen2710
      @Nielsen2710 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      and Machine payments

    • @buzz1ebee
      @buzz1ebee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah 5 panels would more than comfortably pay off a 500k loan payment. I think it's only about 1k / month for payments. Extra field is also a great investment though as long as he reinvests the profits into panels.

    • @bemvas2484
      @bemvas2484 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nooooo don't do that. Solar is long term. You only buy those after you get all the equipment and fields that guarantee short time income. Solar and wind are end game, not early. Pickle already hindered his campaign enough by buying those solars episode one. He could have used the money to get better equipment for his silage stuff

  • @zach1269
    @zach1269 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My favorite part of the bailing contracts is they always let you sell a few bails for yourself

  • @Ph.Ahmed7
    @Ph.Ahmed7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love this series although I do not know anything about this game , please post more often videos of this series, big love from Iraq ❤.

  • @mortisthor8607
    @mortisthor8607 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Takes a man with serious patience, to play on this lag and still do their commentary cold as ice! 🥵
    Im seriously impressed! Love the series💪

  • @reddglare
    @reddglare 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think you just need to get a rythmn going. Decide on a crop to focus on, stick with it, and do contracts during off season. Great vid as always

  • @bemvas2484
    @bemvas2484 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would only think about canola after acquiring the best grass silage equipment and getting rich from it.

  • @billradloff1919
    @billradloff1919 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don't forget that doing grass contracts, you can normally get about a mower width of "free" grass by hitting the verges around the field. Often the windrower will be able to pull excess out of the "you can't have this" zone, and get at least 2-3 extra bales (or 5-6 in that field).

  • @ekzu12321
    @ekzu12321 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love this series so much! First FS series I have ever watched too.

  • @SSFarming7
    @SSFarming7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You could only do harvesting contracts for things that can be used in you oil production facility and then whatever extra you get you could put in you production facility! Keep at the grind brotha

  • @justarandombird
    @justarandombird 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Video idea (that's possibly impossible) "The Gormal Pickle tries farming in a tank" whether that be in warthunder or not, that's an entirely different question 😂
    On a sidenote. I seriously enjoy the vids, keep the fun content coming (especially this series tbh).

  • @ericbossius9231
    @ericbossius9231 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    30:22 you know when you have the bale in the plastic, you can still drive and pick up the grass

  • @marekbaranowski9229
    @marekbaranowski9229 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can get some contracts for canola harvesting and after you finish them you are often left with some so you can use it in oil plant

  • @billy_chad
    @billy_chad 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Always fun to watch these Broke to 1 Billion videos. Wish I could play but a game breaking bug wont allow me

  • @AmazingCorn21
    @AmazingCorn21 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd always lease and I'd always put workers on contracts, unless the leasing equipment is way too expensive or if you're that advanced in the game. For the baling all you need to do as the player is bale the bales.
    I earn about 30k-50k per month if contracts are active. And if you do multiple contracts, you can use the leasing equipment from 1 on the others :).

  • @ThinkICanSing25
    @ThinkICanSing25 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That movie did not sugarcoat anything. I thought I was going to have a nice nostalgic rewatch, but I wind up crying.

  • @CarObsessed96
    @CarObsessed96 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Loopdy loop and pull” (and your shoe’s all lookin cool)
    -SpongeBob
    When he forgets how to tie his shoes.

  • @alexeizaraiov
    @alexeizaraiov 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My man, you NEED to borrow the equipment for the contracts. Taking on that field 71 with your tiny mower and then leasing the rest is way more expensive than just borrowing everything. Any time you take a new contract, just press Backspace and get everything you need for a lot cheaper than if you would lease it yourself. Unless its Fertilizing

  • @scootersl
    @scootersl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    fields 69,70 and 71 usually give the high dollar contracts, keeps you somewhat solvent and progressing...also try and take sunflower and canola contracts that produce oil

  • @Spinorex2188
    @Spinorex2188 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Seeing how you when you were young did farming i also, i live on a farm and me, my dad, and grandpa during the summer we cut and rake our hay fields and we round and small square bales the hay and sometimes wrap the round bales.

  • @muddingoff-road2971
    @muddingoff-road2971 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Use the train silo for grain as a grain silo. It’ll save you space in your trailer and allow you to save up more crop

  • @lspears7285
    @lspears7285 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would def rent the equipment going forward on that grass contract until you can buy the like equipment for your own use. I've gone a similar route on almost the same fields; I merged all the fields I could together just to keep a worker covering as much of the work as possible. enjoy the content on FS22

  • @natalie7049
    @natalie7049 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Finally bought the game for myself and I am addicted! Cant back anything... much like real life ... but I cant get enough of contracts. Lets me try lots of different equipment and learn the map at same time. Such a great idea for a noob like me XD
    Love this series too! excited to see how things progress now youve allowed more loans!

  • @krngrl1201
    @krngrl1201 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This game looks so fun, but I get motion sickness easily in games. Does Farming Simulator 22 have an option to change the Field of View so it's always on third-person POV?

    • @TheFormalPickle
      @TheFormalPickle  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes you can play 3rd person and change the settings of the camera.

  • @spk._
    @spk._ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    NO WAY WE GET A SPONSOR FOR THE FARMING VIDEO! HELL YEAH BROTHER

  • @danielhomant2832
    @danielhomant2832 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I only have up to the free 2019 from epic. Last night I did a harvest job on one of the largest fields and ended up with a little over 40,000liters of bonus wheat after the contract completed.
    I guess I have chicken feed for a while, heh

  • @Broswiffleball_420
    @Broswiffleball_420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sometimes pickle sounds like Joe Biden just yappin off 😂. Keep up the good work

  • @andreasdemeyere646
    @andreasdemeyere646 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No way you are doing daily uploads W

  • @pwflew1970
    @pwflew1970 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I got a nocmans land series on this and i am doing good i have a combine two tractors ans a baler and all the hay equipment

  • @emmittstarbird2300
    @emmittstarbird2300 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Be careful when it comes to loans, you can get stuck in a vicious cycle very quick, I have been trying to break that cycle for about a week now and I’m still trying everything I can to pay it back, most of my income is silage bales and contracts and it’s still very difficult

  • @danutstrugaru6383
    @danutstrugaru6383 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a cozy content, can't wait for more.

  • @adamvandussen2634
    @adamvandussen2634 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I bought this game for my Xbox so I can't wait to try this series on my own

  • @gho5tmangaming240
    @gho5tmangaming240 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    @TheFormalPickle warthunder sponsor is awesome its a big deal its a massive gane with a near cult like following. Ive been playing it since release. Congratulations

  • @elev8torguy
    @elev8torguy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As soon as that baler says 0% you can continue forward. You don't have to wait until the current bale is wrapped. It's meant to do 2 jobs at once.

  • @Nverinder716
    @Nverinder716 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I 100% would have leased all that fancy stuff to bale 15 acres!!! Loving the series man!

  • @quinnhackett9565
    @quinnhackett9565 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    18:23 we are alMOWst finished

  • @PonchoHeide
    @PonchoHeide 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What happened to the all equipment series

  • @ugnius2753
    @ugnius2753 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    buy land ready to harvest, harvest it and sell it and repeat over and over..... this way you can get so much money

  • @refrigeratorskator
    @refrigeratorskator 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Havent seen the video yet but i really hope you keep the bale

  • @brandonblage2668
    @brandonblage2668 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey theformalpickle did you know that you can get free water from lakes that away your not spending money on water

  • @Alex-zz1zf
    @Alex-zz1zf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this series, I look forward to watching every new episode. You made so much progress for vid one

  • @EPICSTUDS-612
    @EPICSTUDS-612 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Its been about 3 years since I started my journey to 1 billion and I have one tractor still the base 3 field and farm and 802,000 dollars in the bank I have a few mods but only a few like a trailer to live in and a radio tower producing a max of 40,000$ a month once I hit a million I'll pay off my 200,000 dollar base loan and start to grow my farm even more.

  • @Ficuzo
    @Ficuzo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Once you’ve earned more money you should invest into planting and selling cotton, it takes quite a lot of money to get started, but once you’re going you’ll be earning a lot. :)

  • @smokoguapp4824
    @smokoguapp4824 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the series please make it daily

  • @aces6283
    @aces6283 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just started a fresh start to 1 billion with limited mods(field creation) thanks for your hard work and effort

  • @charleszwingli8506
    @charleszwingli8506 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you can keep baling as soon as the baler closes. dont need to wait for the wrapper

  • @bewareofchickens
    @bewareofchickens 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm growing weary of taking grass silage contracts for field 71 in my own game. But its so easy and lots of money! lol

  • @lfamilygamingshorts
    @lfamilygamingshorts 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another great episode! Keep up the good work!

  • @yes-vz9hh
    @yes-vz9hh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can keep picking up grass in the bailer when it is wrapping the bail

  • @iwayned
    @iwayned 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only buy a field when it is harvestable with a crop you want.

  • @martin2998
    @martin2998 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not been long finding your channel. Absolutely loving the content. Thank you

  • @Dani_G_German1
    @Dani_G_German1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Jake the “roller with the planter” is actually a weeder

  • @cameron2467
    @cameron2467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Upgrade the mower and you can window and mow at the same time

  • @topolos123
    @topolos123 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder how good a 465k loan would be if you bought 5 big solar panels. They'd pay for the loan payment and themselves. Gotta do some math to see what the ROI would be. But I think it's good.

  • @vague2718
    @vague2718 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bridge to Terabithia, you say? Yeah I'm feeling about that old and sad too. 😅😂

  • @greenerell484
    @greenerell484 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think you should have taken the hire stuff for the contract given how cheep it was and the wear on your equipment

  • @sethdarby708
    @sethdarby708 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    im on year 13 and i built a oil mill on the field 44 and doing all canola and selling the canola oil which sells for like 8800 and im up to $671K now all from selling the canola oil and honey on their high sell times

  • @WyattPemberton-k8k
    @WyattPemberton-k8k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can keep bailing while there is a bale on the wrapper

  • @Blackwellll3066
    @Blackwellll3066 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovin the series for sure

  • @double.11
    @double.11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've never played farm sim in my life, but im really loving the series. Im not sure how the game works for the other "farmers" on the map that plant stuff on their fields. Are they an ai thats plants whatever or is it a very repedative series of what they plant and harvest. Anyway I was wondering, is there a mod or something that allows the other "farmers" to go to the oil plant that you own and pay you a fee to utilize the plant to process their oils. I would think this would be more realistic, than only you using the oil plant and it would be a nice source of passive income. Like I said i've never played myself, but I thought this would be the more realistic and profitable way to use the oil plant.

    • @Makapaa
      @Makapaa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What AI decides to plant on their fields seem to be either "set" or "random" crop, depending on the "AI setting" (map specific) of that field. You do not see AI farmers do their fieldwork, everything is background simulated and all changes, visual and field status stuff, happen at midnight at Month Change. Some fields reserve their work for Player as Contracts but push forward independently as mentioned before if Player does not take those jobs. As for player-initiated "contracts", hiring a Helper (same AI drivers as used here, for example) is the only way you can do it. Modding has some more.. pre-planned options for AI work but none gives you ability to "order a field to be done", so to speak. Game just does not work like that.
      When it comes to Oil Plant, Contracts should be able to target all player-owned, pre-placed/"came with the map" factories. So you'd get crops dropped off at the factory, "the state" pays the original farmer and your (possible) extra bits are added - along with the harvest of the original farmer- to the factory's storage. Not 100% sure about this tho as I'm pretty sure there are also some mods that tweak these things and I'm not sure if this is vanilla or modded behaviour.
      Generic, background simulated farmwork and harvests are just fairy dust and make-believe. If player does not touch something, it does not (really) exist in the world.

  • @brytong3
    @brytong3 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You will lose money having only 1 canola field as you will rent a combine for just 1 field

    • @bemvas2484
      @bemvas2484 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes!!! Go full grass, invest more into it. Only go canola when you got enough money for fields and equipment!

  • @slayerddd
    @slayerddd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When is the new full map harvest video coming out its been 2 weeks??

  • @WMC2Knapke
    @WMC2Knapke 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just bought the game and am looking to start my own farm
    I know Pickle has started farming grass
    Is grass a good way to start?

  • @lenmal0917
    @lenmal0917 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I cant even escape war thunder in a farming sim vid

  • @RyubenZ
    @RyubenZ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey, if you don't want your canola oil production place, couldn't you resell it?

  • @Zurper87
    @Zurper87 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There’s better maps for grass / silage and wait till the fields are ready to harvest before buying them

  • @TheBeast0253
    @TheBeast0253 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yay I’m early!! Thanks for uploading again! Always gonna be my favorite series.

  • @Countymixes
    @Countymixes 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Now with loans just take a 1bill loan and build solar panels loans are broken try a series without loans ps

    • @TheFormalPickle
      @TheFormalPickle  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have a 500k limit I think.

  • @klaudiuszkaczynski7299
    @klaudiuszkaczynski7299 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    i have 900 hours on it this is fun

  • @weedwacka
    @weedwacka 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love these videos!

  • @audible_
    @audible_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey if you don't do this you should if you got personal shit ignore TH-cam if you have to or want to to deal with person stuff because the true people will understand the haters wont

  • @apersononyoutube-pv4py
    @apersononyoutube-pv4py 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you have course play then you can setup a course and it will do all most jobs but only on PC
    lucky you have one 🙃

  • @sclibble
    @sclibble 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    war pickle farming thunder simulator

  • @ericgreen9051
    @ericgreen9051 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happened to trying to buy all the tractors in farm SIM on TBE 4 fields map?

  • @MrrChiken
    @MrrChiken 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whats your public map called

  • @AlaskanGamester
    @AlaskanGamester 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    for water i filled that little tanker with that pond next to bio gas its free

  • @zach1269
    @zach1269 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve kept all my settings on hard except I turned the gears to manual and I turned off field rocks cuz fu*k rocks

  • @connorfrench8174
    @connorfrench8174 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am currently watching this series on my laptop but the videos seem laggy. Any tips?

  • @allenandrews3496
    @allenandrews3496 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happen to plant canola to get oil

  • @Itzkayden-yy5gh
    @Itzkayden-yy5gh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what’s dipping dots?, i’m from the uk and have never heard of them

  • @masonkallberg1022
    @masonkallberg1022 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First love your vids keep up the work

  • @daintycalf9800
    @daintycalf9800 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nooo I started playing farming sim to get away from the pain of war thunder 😭

  • @ericgreen9051
    @ericgreen9051 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 4 field Mao auto correct screwed the comment up

    • @ericgreen9051
      @ericgreen9051 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Map* auto correct keeps messing up

  • @TheRabidPickle
    @TheRabidPickle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’d already have FarmingSim if I had money to spend. Alas, gas cost money…

  • @monsteroussons9568
    @monsteroussons9568 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love these videos

  • @Shed_gaming
    @Shed_gaming 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe you need to slowly repay the loan

  • @Adenoneill45
    @Adenoneill45 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yes i wold like to switch the server

  • @apersononyoutube-pv4py
    @apersononyoutube-pv4py 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish I could help you but I have a ps3 not a ps4 a big difference
    at least if you can we could play fs15 together when I get it
    speaking of ps3 I completed Need for speed yesterday lvl 50/50🏁

  • @Rock_n_roll_farmer
    @Rock_n_roll_farmer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can’t you just sell the conola plant?

  • @cameronbreytenbach6359
    @cameronbreytenbach6359 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I tell you what you play farming simulator alot better than me I get so lazy. I got a question would you say FS19 and fs22 are similar

    • @TheFormalPickle
      @TheFormalPickle  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Each game is similar with improvements and changes. Usually and mostly they are good changes so the newest game is the best one to play. There may be some things from past games that I liked and wish I still had though. Even still FS19 is a great game.

  • @audible_
    @audible_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Free the bale!