Which crop is the most profitable crop that does not take a war to harvest?
Grass is better than corn for silage?
Easier, and you get three crops a year versus one. Works out to roughly the same yield.
It's easier to harvest.
With seasons on, grass is better. With them off, corn is the best.
You get 3 harvests per year with corn vs 4 with grass, but make more money growing corn silage.
Hang on you can turn Corn into Silage?
Wait what
Yeah
Thanksass
People say that soybeans don't make a good profit because of the cost of planting it but I'm not sure 🤔
Soybeans are an excellent crop, and if you play with precision farming they don't even need fertiliser applying which would be one of the biggest costs to planting them.
I have never heard anyone say that soybeans weren’t profitable. They are in fact the most profitable grain crop, without factoring productions or straw in.
Soybeans. Easy culture and simple logistics, worth a lot of money when exporting by train. I fear not the heavy silage min max guy that makes one billion bales per year, but I do fear the Midwest enjoyer with his 3 million liters of soybeans ready to crash the market.
Cotton then turning it into cloths makes me really good money
Get the faster spinnery from modhub and it makes a world of difference. The base game version take way too long to make fabric.
I didn't know that existed. I wish I had known that; I was just selling my loose cotton at the farmer's market because the spinnery was too slow.
It’s roughly 1500 units per month instead of like 250 or whatever it is.
I found it. I'ma try it out. It'll honestly make my playthrough so much better because of how much cotton I produce.
That’s a good mod, I already have it but I modded it so the production is even faster, that combined with the faster productions mod I get 2,400,000 cycles per month. I can put 2 million liters of cotton in it and it goes through it all in a few months.
Link please? Can't seem to find it when I search for it on modhub
I meant the spinnery..
oh haha sorry. theres another thread where i was at. hold on
Oh okay 😅 thanks alot
Without seasons, I believe sorghum is the most profitable/acre/month for the simplest harvest since you can harvest every 4 months. Cotton is good too but requires a dedicated harvester and bale trailer.
With seasons, potatoes and sugar beets are king but cotton is profitable and much easier to harvest (plus makes good money with fabric/clothes). Soybeans are probably best for the simplest harvest.
Grass is always good for silage, sheep, and biogas. If you don't like using bunkers, there are silage factory mods.
Thanks for the great response message!
I play with seasons on. I'm trying to make some profit/progress on my save and just gone into carrots and founded out how long that takes to harvest now.. but I guess great profit at the end but not compared to the time it takes
Ah, I don't have that dlc so I haven't tested that out. Most root crops are very profitable in the game though. With seasons on, grass is your best bet for regular income because you can harvest 4 times a year if timed right. Baling or bunkers takes time for silage, but you save time by not needing to relime, cultivate, replant, weed, or even fertilize (if you use the grassland roller).
Sorghum is the only crop I haven't touched, is it really that quick to grow?
Yeah, 4 months. I've stopped playing with seasons so I always have some sorghum growing for my chickens.
A few comments down this page has the length to harvest for the base game crops. Very helpful. https://forum.giants-software.com/viewtopic.php?t=189716
Thank you my friend.
That's a spreadsheet comparing all the crops being grown in the same field. It doesn't account for time to grow or harvest, but it gives a good start point.
With seasons on, I'm no expert. But, with them off, I believe corn silage pays the most with minimal effort.
You can harvest the corn after 4 months to make silage, meaning 3 harvests per year. 1 less than grass silage, but you make more per harvest.
Everything makes money.
Everything makes more money if you put your harvest through one or more factories first.
For example, wheat is profitable. Flour is more profitable. Bread is more profitable still. But all of that is way less profitable on your next harvest if all of your equipment is setup for corn planting and harvesting, though.
Cotton is fun imo
Just started this game and first tried my luck with canola. Then did some good paying contracts and found out I liked the bailing ones and silage pays good so I transitioned to that
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Depending on the map and if you have any mods that boost prices I’d say soybeans
Cotton is a WINDFALL if you prepare the field … something like $60k a bale? The downside is: 1. It’s expensive as hell - the harvesters are like $300k. 2. It’s probably THE slowest crop to harvest. The heads are only like 6m wide and the top speed is 6mph … so even a small field takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r.
Grass is decent because it’s easy and cheap and plentiful, but you’ve gotta run a tedder over it and then windrow it and then bale it and then load it and THEN you can sell it.
You can use AI to help cut down on this but they’re not the smartest at harvesting grass.
As a bonus, you can mow the edges of the fields to increase your yield while you’re at it.
I don't know what you mean by taking a war to harvest. I watched a video on YT (don't remember the channel) that took the little square plot on the starter farm and planted every crop there to see which one would get the most money and sugar beets was #1 and potatoes was #2. The main reason is you get way more yield per acre with those two than other crops. You do need specialized equipment to harvest them, but you don't need to buy a harvester you can buy or lease equipment to hook onto your tractor that does it. Other than that grass silage is better than hay.
Grass silage, soybeans, cotton, take your pick.