FS22 Most Profitable Production | Farming Simulator 22 

Greenhouses are undervalued. Start up cost is next to nothing and only requires water, which you can get for free. They pay themselves off super quick and it's basically pure profit

I did just run some tests on greenhouses - and your math is the limit of income. The production rate of greenhouses is based on water usage, which is a static rate. The output does not increase if you select all products: - 1 product is produced at 100% rate. - 2 products are produced at 50% each. - 3 products are produced at 33% each. In essence the decision to produce all three allows you to hedge against the market, and average the income over sell price of each. I think most folks would pick lettuce, just because it produces slower (for a higher value), so there is less labor to ship to market. I think what would be interesting to know about the other production facilities is whether they are similarly limited - either by input product or production capabilities. (There's so many tests to run and so limited time per day!!!)

We needed this by far most helpful Farm Sim guide yet

Greenhouses made me my first 1mil. Zero loans, after I had 3, I couldn’t keep up. I started with strawberries but are VERY fast, lettuce is a slower slightly more $ process, so I ran those. The compounding profits are insane. I was running a rotation of 6 Semi’s

The one bit you left out here is some kind of total profit. For example, I find bread to be really slow production, but one harvest of wheat will give me enough floor to be making bread for over a year, and then I have a steady income year round. Whereas Canola Oil produces quite fast and from one harvest I have to store to sell in the right month otherwise it would all be sold before it reaches its peak price.

Sweet man. Was just about to start testing this myself. Saved me some time for sure

Thx mate! Well done and thx for the work put in!

A good example in understanding some aspects of the "microeconomics of farming". However, most farmers base their incomes through full acreage calculations not base materials with the exceptions of lumber companies. Then apply equipment, facility, operation, fuel, and maintenance cost reductions for estimated final profits.

Thanks for the research and time spent to make this video!

Very good analysis. A few points: 1. you didn't cover the BGA - when you buy it, it gets electricity and methane prices, about 50% more than regular sell price. Also, electricity and methane have the same prices year round, according to the economy.xml file. Factor in cur sugar beats, manure, and sliurry proceesing...and then autoselling digestate (which also is same year round IIRC), and it may very well be the best production facility around...and that makes sense with its EXTREMELY high initial investment. 2. A GREAT test, and one needed I think, is to test the economy to see if the timing of high prices changes year over year. Its my belief that now that they record last 12 months of prices in economy.xml, that its truly a dynamic market. Sell EVERYTHING EVERY YEAR in January?? Well, prices do drop like a rock when you dump massive quantities, and that would affect the recorded monthly average price. Yeary over year, its my believe this will cause January's high price to eventually drop...and December and February's average prices will slowly increase because you NEVER sell in those months.. Eventually, December may be higher than January. This would make it a true supply/demand model...not hard coded. An easy way to test would be to save the game, modify the economy.xml files, and sleep all year, and see what happens to the prices when you never sell. As well use debug commands to give you free product, and dump massive amounts in the best month, year over year, and see if I am correct in what I think. 3. Another factor is the return on investment - in general I have observed it all takes about 5-7 years on normal economy to get the ROI of land purchases. From your data, it seems a bit less on the productions factories. Correct observation though that you get more profit per month if you use all different recipes simultaneously, but the key is keeping it running ALL YEAR. This concludes that its not a great investment if you have 1 hectare of wheat, and buy a Grain Mill because you make more money. You need a dozen or so hectares, or each grain product, to maximize the Grain Mill. Then it will have a much shorter ROI, and a better ROI than land purchases...but land purchases have the best ROI in early and mid game. That would make a good video to show all of that.

I'm making a fortune on bread. Each granary can support just over 5 bakeries. I've got 2 granaries and 11 bakeries. Also, the smaller brick bakery is fab. It has space for 8 pallets outgoing before it starts using the 'storage' inside.

I was running 30 large green houses making Tomatoes. Just fed them free water from Elm Creek ponds and on Medium economy the profits on a full TLX Phoenix XL pallet autoload truck and trailer was about 60,000 on average in January. Would often collect 4 or 5 loads at a time. But it was very tedious running water back and fourth and the pallets autoloading was a chore at times.

super interesting. what i didnt expect: greenhouses are quite good considering you can buy 6-10 of them for the same price as the other production buildings

thx for the overview, hard to figure out wich one works well if you try to factor in the cost of the equipment, i guess wool from sheep is kind of cheap to produce, small tractor with forks, mower and baler and the pen with some animals or loading wagon instead of baler. wood sounds interesting too, not sure you could start with a pickup and a chainsaw, but that will be alot of work to cut the logs down so you can load them...another factor to consider...good thing there are so many choices :)

Awesome video and an amazing amount of work put in. First time viewer but I'll be checking out the channel. Thanks! 👍🤘

I thought this was going to be a description on all the buildings not just one, This guy has got a real hard on for the grain mill..

👍. Their production out put and their cycle times are very interesting. Let’s use the word odd.

Well done. Thank you for this.

Thanks again for the great video and information 👍 🚜

Thanks for another great video and great information

great job, thank you very much for this info

Wow, very good video. So much info... *cannot compute* lol

Wow is all I can say 😆!! Thanks for this important information for productions!!

Yeah, I like the idea of the production chains more than the actual output. I am about 30 hours into a save and still haven't tried anything other than the main 4 grains that the grain mill takes. I found out that you can double dip if you put a bunch of crop in there to sell before you buy it and the crop still shows up for production as well. I only own the grain mill and bakery but bread is just way too slow... I feel like the ratios of use to consumption need to be rebalanced. 1 grain mill makes like 20 times the amount of flour than the bakery will process. Due to this, I usually keep it set to distribute and once the storage is full at the grain mill, ill swap it to sell to sell off what I have before setting it back to distribute. I haven't really messed with the other chains but it just seems to be a lot of work supplying them all for what you get back out of it. I think the end game good should be way more valuable than what they are especially for how slow they process everything.

using the pallet storage and logistics mod helps you see a snapshot of everything you are producing in one location. So far works well except honey it won't take. It may be due to not having trigger control over the honey drop location.

Awesome work :)

I think a more useful stat would be Profit per Acre. Technically my Oat sells more per unit but I get small amount of it in total so at the end of the day considering limited resources which is better to plant and to feed into the factory?

um, you totaly forgot straw production... they may not call it production but in production you input one thing to get an output for another to make a bigger profit..when you input straw to cows pigs horses you get anothet output... grass also... and milk and wool is very valuble compared to straw or grass.

Greenhouses, and bees. Are a nice combo to have going, even if you plan on focusing on something else like growing crops, raising animals, logging, mining. Have a greenhouse and beehive along with it.

Only thing I'd say is you won't be to make that much on grapes per month because it takes a few months to be able to harvest them. So the saw mill is the clear winner.

I sub to you but must have missed this, wow such hard work you've done for our benefit. Thanks for this info really interesting as you build up your farm.

Much appreciated!

Thanks for breaking all this down for us post patch! Did they nerf production rate and prices for egg farmers? Feels like they did to me!

Out of interest have you tested owning just the sawmill versus using sawmill to supply planks to the carpentry production on Western Wilds?

Thanks for all the work. A person needs to be careful who he listens to. I saw another video where the guy came to the conclusion that you were better off selling your cotton as a crop than doing any production with it, because he said the fabric sold for less than the raw material. I was kind of surprised to see how much more you made from wool cloth than from cotton cloth, but I guess it makes sense as it takes longer to produce a big stack of wool than it does to produce a big stack of cotton. Thanks again.

Grape processing unit sounds great, but you can’t automate grape production, and you need over 140,000 liters of grapes per year to keep it running at full capacity. The grape harvester has a max capacity of 3500 liters. It would be INSANE to keep it stocked at full capacity at all times. Unless I’m missing something…

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Just a critical thought. Things that were left out were equipment cost and effort. Those in mind never go into logging with more that a chainsaw because the equipment cost and greenhouses on paper suck but there is no effort.

12:56 Correct me if i am wrong but i was of the understanding that each production building hade a set amount of cycles it was able to run over the course of 1 month. So if u did run both let´s say Wheat and Barley into Flour the game used this monthly set numbers of cycles and split it betwinn those 2 or however many productions that building hade active for that month. So wouldent it then be better from a stand point of the amount of grain processed/month to only have the 1 type of grain active that gave u the most flour output/cycles. A simple example would be if u only ran 1 type of grain and 1000 wheat got u 1000 flour but 1000 Barley got u 800 flour. Now if u have them both active the amount of cycles are split betwinn them so the mill only process 50% of each so u would get 500 flour (wheat) and 400 flour (barley) = 900 flour if u ran both Wheat and Barley at the same time vs that u would have got 1000 flour =100 more if u only used Wheat. I hope i dident complicated this to mutch and that it made sense. To sum it up do the buildings have a set amount of cycles per month that is then split based on how many diffrent crops are active in that building or does each crop have there own set amount of cycles/month regardless of how many other active crops the building have active?

Was yield per field considered? For example, looks like Oat does better than Barley when making flour, but you get a lot more Barley out of a field.

My most profitable is Clothing, Sunflower/Olive oil, and the non-production item: Eggs

Greenhouses are free money if you ask me, they get paid off quick, and you can put money in your pocket faster.

I am sure this is a bug, but with all the guides to production videos I have watched, I can't believe no one has mentioned this one. I built my own Spinnery. I harvested my field of cotton and got enough cotton to run my factory for 15 months. I was trying to decide if I wanted to replant the cotton. I got a contract to harvest someone else's cotton field. When I looked at the #9 map, I saw that the contract was sending the cotton to MY Spinnery. I harvested his field and took the cotton to my spinnery. I got paid $6900 for the contract and now I have over 40,000 liters of free cotton to put into my factory; enough for another 14 months, so now I can plant something else in that field this year.

I wish you could have a couple of options for new farmer mode per map where you could start on the normal farm or a different farmhouse on the map and maybe have a hay/animal setup like Erlengrat or now a vineyard setup

My plan I’m going with now is 3 fields of cotton. Mow the grass around them to feed sheep. Then have a fabric and clothing business fed by the wool and cotton

I think a % increase chart would be very helpfull

At 7:30 he said Oats twice. Did he mean a different crop? Otherwise this was extremely helpful. I started making my own comparisons and figured someone had to have already done so. Phew! Thank you!

I make a lot of money with the Large green houses due to the free water mod and the sell mats . I have to do nothing but turn them on. In my last to game saves I have hit max and learned that the green houses large to small count as a production point.. I got tired of spending all my time moving things around so I put the sell mats down. I am playing on the American Farms map and it has no production points or animals. I like that map. I have added animal to my game. I have the sell mats down for the eggs and am planning to sell the milk and wool. Maybe I bring some production to the game Just do not like getting into tight places with tractors trucks and trailers to move that stuff around. These are large fields on that map . I would rather spend my time on them. Generator the game has is the most way to make money. However, the temptation is to put more down and crash the game.

Great video and thanks for all of this.

People wanting to start a business should watch this video

So i have 7 large green houses and i keep it on selling and make everyday 16k with lettuce on top of that i do soybeans works pretty good

After posting a warning about listening to random people I went and quoted someone without checking it out. I saw someone report that setting up a grape field is so expensive that regardless of what you do with the grapes, it will take forever to get your money back. I set up a test field and used the prices from Driver53's latest price updates. I built a vineyard that cost $380,430 for the vines. These vines gave me 20,200 liters of grapes. This would give the same number of raisins. The estimated peak price for raisins according to Driver53's video are $4662 or $2797 or $1554 depending on the difficulty level you use. With these prices it would take 4.04 years or 6.7 years, or 12.11 years to pay off the cost of vines. This is only running the factory a little over 3 months of the year. To get enough grapes to run the factory all year would take $1,464,467,18 in vines, but the ratio stays the same so you could pay off the field at the same time. Not sure I would like to try this on hard mode, but the other two don't seem that bad.

So as i understand this. For the factories that produce multiple items. You should only run one output at a time to get max cycles?

Thank you.

As you said, those final figures are "gross" profit. The numbers on the grape processors look spectacular, but when you figure in the cost of all the vines you need, even with those great monthly figures, it is going to take you years and years to break even.

The greenhouse are nice, get the big ones (i have 4) get the big water tanker, fill them fully (2 trips for all 4 big greenhouse) and forget about them. Wen full or close to full set it to auto sell wen price is good (there are lists on reddit for the selling price’s) and get a stack off basically free money every year or so. (After selling (sells on the full houwer) don’t forget te set back to storing).

Yeah seems like greenhouses are actually pretty good like they are 10k for the large 1. So them making a few grand is not terrible you just need to buy lots of them and you don't need fields and you only need a water truck, delivery truck and a tractor to haul it all. That being said the game then becomes a delivery game

I thought the production chains don't work as fast when you are running multiple things in it? Like say you had the oil mill and you put in sunflower and canola, instead of processing both of them at 4800 per month or would split them and only do both at 2400. Or it's that wrong? Idk I'm genuinely asking

I believe your statement at 13:04 was incorrect if you have multiple inputs for a production it switches between them it does not do them all at the same time and quadruple the output of the factory just by putting in varied inputs. Same thing with grapes and raisins if you just produce 1 it outputs max if you produce both it spends half its time on raisins half its time of juice meaning you will get 8k a month producing both not 17k. I could be wrong about this but that has been my experience. Other than that spot on thank you for the video.

A new subscriber from Malaysia. Wow wood and Grape cost per month is ok but the profit pre month is wow just wow. Is this work only with only FS22 or you need the FS22 platinum edition ?

Trees are slow to grow and grapes are expensive to plant and they take so much time to take care of and to harvest. I like to produce clothes using wool and cotton. Also tried cereal but i think any production chain that needs too much crops and other stuff is not worth it.

They should put u in charge of explane stuff. Ur great at it.

Nice info

I use auto drive and have the game running on one monitor while working on my other monitors. So I don’t drive. Which crop would be best for fully automated production? Basically I can’t load pallets, but I can use load and unload.

The only thing I noticed is you didn't take into account cost of equipment.. For grapes especially it takes specialized tools for almost every aspect of it from planting to hauling and ALL of that equipment is extremely expensive to lease or buy.

I am a bit confused. On Normal economy the paper factory works very well. I sold 9 pallets for 165000 eur.

Do your calculations account for 100% yield bonus or is this the base yield for the crop?

You say the money you make from cereal is on top of the other produce like honey raisins etc. If you own the factory do you still get paid for the raw produce or only end product. IE wheat to flour to bread. Would I get paid for the wheat/flour/bread if I own the grain mill and bakery?

which is best Production right now

The problem with this is that you only see how fast you get money but not how much money you get for 1 liter of a crop

My mind can't grasp the concept of sacrificing honey for example (among other things) to make cereal with, while you can sell honey for more than what the cereal is. Just looking at your chart here on the cereal factory for example. If I sold all the inputs independently, I would make $5,961. So why would I sacrifice all those products to make $1,733 at the end of the day?

Do you get charged for the production cycle if activated but no materials are present? I have been trying to figure this out

I disagree about the greenhouses for two important reasons. Reason one is the space that you need in order to use them. They are tiny compared to the amount of space that you need for all of these other crops. Reason two is that the amount of time it takes to actually care for the greenhouses. All they need is water in order to function, and you can fill them up (at least the big ones, not sure about the others) at the beginning of the year and ignore them for the entire rest of the year until you get to the most profitable month. The greenhouses have the perfect amount of space on the pallets outside and storage space, so that they will store literally everything for a year and a month (because sometimes there's some fluctuation). Sure some of these others are strictly more money, but they also require more space and time to manage. I'm not arguing with the spreadsheet, just your idea of them being the worst.

I been commenting and promised myself I’d subscribe to who ever came out with this video first. Thank you

How do you get your ground so level

Someones knows were i can find thr list he uses?

Appreciate all the work, but way too much detail for my little brain 😁

I love the work and numbers. But my question is, for grape process facility and sawmill, how much time do I need to put on it on the field compared to Wheat for example? All these numbers are great but we gotta consider the time spent in each production too.

Can we have the link to these spreadsheets?

Great work 👍 I don't see soybeans

Or just do one larger wheat field, 3 chicken coops, and with easy settings when selling year production of eggs at November (and straw in December) you'll have so much money after a few seasons, that you can go ahead towards any production chain based on fun and not profitability 😀

when was this posted

Chickens are right up there only one ingredient and cheap

Wheres the link yo spread sheet ?

you can get free water from river

How can I output honey faster?

At 7:20 you said oats twice, what did you mean?

Is this still accurate? I just got this game for free and never realized how fun it is until now.

Answer at 13:20

What is a cycle?

What about Bio Gas?

can’t get the spreadsheet

I really don’t think your values are correct. Firstly average sell prices? No one will sell anything in the worst months. A better value would be avg sell price in best month. Or perhaps 80% of that value. I don’t think you can make multiple flour types simultaneously as the rates will change for each product added on. How many bakeries do you need to consume the flour?

Why make clothes? When u get clothes free at start of the game.

Biogas ?

My willamina is going to ikea

Expanding production too much makes it into forklift simulator.

This is not correct. Greenhouses are way most profitable. I played a lot already. Cost only water and have most profits. You need to calculate the cost of making the milk or getting the crops for the production. Then your excel will be totally different. Cows costs lots of money to produce milk. Cant just buy it. So according to my research and playing its totally the say around then you say here. Not using mods that is, otherwise its more easy of course.

How did it take over 15 minutes to explain 2 minutes of info. Why does every RU-vidr over explain every thing. Is it just to hear the sound of their voice. It is good info, but too much filler and repetition

Boooooooring