Some tips with grapes. 1. You can attach the mulcher to the front, and the cultivator to the back. Kills 2 birds with one stone, and cuts the time in half. 2. There are other small tractors with higher horsepower that can still fit down the rows to make my first suggestions easier. The Landini struggles with HP to do both. It can do it, but it's a bit slow. 3. There are multiple other fertilizer options that are better than what the game wants you to do. The green and orange solid spreader that has a 40ish spread width can fit down the rows, and knock out about 5-6 rows on each side at a time. You can also opt to leave a bit of space between every 14 rows. The HARDI Rubicon 9000 self-propelled sprayer's arms can cover 7 rows on each side, and you can adjust the arm to be high enough to go over the top of the vine poles.
there's also a manure spreader that'll fit between rows if you have poopy animals (pigs and cows), but currently no slurry spreader that'll fit. They do use (admittedly tiny) slurry spreaders IRL, so likely only a matter of time before a mod comes along. As far as I can tell you never need herbicide and Giants still don't know that pests and pesticide is a thing (likely because they don't want kids crying that their crops got eaten by bugs)
@firstgradeteacher9915 at least in my families place. Harvesting is mostly done by hand. And spraying is mostly done by plane. But yeah pretty similar.
@@firstgradeteacher9915 the game gets a lot of things right. Of course, it's a game, so many things are skipped to keep it fun and engaging. There is practically no manual labor in it. Most of everything in here is done with a machine or vehicle. Where I come from, grapes are almost 40 percent manual labor. But in here, that's all skipped because going to tie them or prune them by hand would take *forever*
I am a real life grape farmer (vineyard manager). I take care of 16 acres of vineyards and grow 5 different varieties of grapes for a family owned and operated winery that has been in business for 135 years. It looks like they have simplified the process greatly. I can tell you how it works in real life. Assuming the vineyard is already established (mature vines with posts and wire). After harvest, during the winter, the vines are all pruned by hand. Each and every vine, custom pruned to promote healthy growth for the next 2 seasons to come. After pruning (still during winter or very early spring) we pound down the posts which get pushed up by the frosty ground. Then we tighten all the wires. There are 3 or 4 wires per row. They will stretch loose and break under the load of the heavy grapes. Once all that is repaired… Then we have to go out and “tie down” the pruned vines. Using twist ties to secure the newly pruned vines to the wires. Then in the spring, before things start growing, we spray a pre emergent herbicide under the vines with a modified sprayer tractor. This will prevent many weeds from rooting and make life much easier with regards to weeds. As the grapes start to grow they get a round of fertilizer. Solid pellet fertilizer from a broadcast spreader attachment on a tractor. I then go back through the rows and remove any “suckers”. Those are baby vines that grow from the base of the mature vine trunks. If these are not cut away they will sap a lot of growth energy from the mature vine. Like the pruning this is done by hand and it’s a LOT of backbreaking bending over to accomplish. Then the season really starts and the vines start growing. Throughout the season (at a rate of every week basically) you have to; Mow the grass between the rows. Spray various fungicides to keep molds and mildews from destroying your crop. Spray various insecticides to keep bugs from destroying your crops. Spray various herbicides under the rows to kill off the weeds that pop up and compete with the vines. Along the way you will also have to repair posts and wire and reattach vines that become untied due to storm damage. Possibly fertilize again if needed. I also trim away some of the leaves in mid/late summer. This is to provide good air flow and sunlight penetration. Finally when the grapes are ripe they are picked by hand. Every bunch of grapes carefully cut from the vine and collected. Farming grapes is a laborious and tedious process to say the least. If all I did was what this video game presents there would never be any grapes to harvest by the end of the season. They would likely all wither and die from mildew and be eaten by bugs long before the grapes ever came close to being ready to harvest. All that said I am still looking forward to trying my hand at digital viticulture. I guarantee I’ll never even break a sweat.
@@jeremydurdil556 And you're right. Since I last posted, I have already bought the game, and it has been extremely dumbed down. Which makes sense, I mean, you're there to have fun, not to work a second job. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed reading your reply. Your way of farming is almost exactly identical to ours.
Just an FYI if you buy a field and plant your grapes in the field rather than just land, you can then hire a worker to do everything you need them to do. Also, if you want to save time, put the cultivator on the back and the mulched on the front and do them at the same time.
The power of the combination machines is too low for high row per time . But with the new update now u can use litterly all small tractors 🚜 at the rows so now finally I can combine at full throttle. Also u can take 2 of the things that clear the leaves 🍃 to clean 2 rows at the time ⏲️
thank you for making short and simple tutorials, every time i want to get into something new on farming sim i always look for a video made by you as it just quickly gets the information across without any bla bla
yes, pruning is normally done in late winter (Dec to Feb), when the vines are dormant and the leaves have fallen off. You definitely wouldn't do it when they are green and growing like the game has it.
Man oh man I love the idea of grapes. This is my first game owned for my new Xbox series x. I spent 6 hours playing today after watching your tutorials. Grape equipment was tough at first... but I'm getting the hang of not getting caught on the poles. I found it easy to harvest by zooming in Full, then angle the cam center. You can watch your harvesters entry point like that. If only I could hide the helper menu & speed up time without going to the settings menu.
@@ThatGuy-ve9tf yep! They're interesting for a change.... but I've switched to sugarbeats and have been enjoying it. I wish there were more options like Watermelon, pumpkin, etc. That could be fun.
i was super excited for grapes but when i did try them yesterday for first time i found itto be a nightmare it is probally my fault but i find i have to mulch an culltivate so many times back an forth an when i check the map its dots of completed stages makes me think im not doing anything but then i also had collision issues on everything i lined rows straight they now snap so not alot i can do there but tractor gets stuck at least 5 times per row also tool only does half the row so i have to turn around an go back down same row twice for it to look done but on map it still looks terrible but thats ok then i try an use harvester was so looking forward to this it gets stuck an wedged so many times ive even tried setting cruise to 2 mph an setting camera angle every way possible ijust cant get it done without issues but still enjoy the grapes being added to game i know alot of my issues are my fault an i need to learn how to use tools better but collision is truely a nightmare lol. i did plant them on open land flat just meadow grass but it wants me to roll field and plow theres no roller in game small enough so that i have to ignore but theres a plow i just dont notice any differance in doing them map still says needs plowing an rolling ground looks the same the only thing that seemed to work 100% an be rewarding an fun was dumping gra[es from harvester to trailer lol that worked great no issues obviously it would but every other part of it feels awful atm took forever to do 1 harvest around 4 hours last night and got 5-6k litres of grapes lol
This is one of the things I'm most excited about is the grapes and olives. Just being able to use those small tractors will be fun lol. Awesome video fc trying not to watch to many videos so I can kinda learn as I go but thus one I had to watch.
The late 80s early 90s had a farm simulator but used for educational use . with water management using fish to keep the water ditches clean from plants. and irigation of the land. simple but methodical .
Great videos. My way of cracking the problem regarding getting the mulchers close enough is: 2 x Fendt 211 V Vario and 2 x TMC Cancela TPN 140. Create two CoursePlay routes, one driving on the left and one on the right of the vines. Change offset on both to -0.6 m with mulchers on the rear of the Fendt. Both will now focus on one row, mulch pretty close to the vines and skip one row.
Oh dear.. after building large orchard, I found out that on some maps (Felsbrunn 22) grapes are half broken - grass to mulch don't grow, even crazier, mulcher over brown ground instantly spawns grass that is immune to mulching and grass disappear in autumn and ground reverts back to brown. Tested on No Mans Land map, there grapes work as advertised. Don't be like me, before going all in into orchards, test if they actually work on map you are playing.
huge thanks for this tutorial. The in-game description of how it works is really bad and not very clear on how you put the plants down and get the correct distance, so this is a big help for those of us who can't be arsed to create a test farm
Seriously helpful tip for mulching: do it while reversing your tractor. For some reason this makes it much easier. One side of the mulcher has a guard as well so make sure you use that side. Thank me later!
I'm stuck on how to sell the grapes, I've only got a very small vine yard, about 10% in the trailer, but when I unload it it tips back then goes back to its normal position so nothing comes out
When you are mulching, do you have to get as close as possible to the poles? I have them spaced as close as I can and if I go down the middle it leaves some grass under the vines? It looks like I may need to do 2 passes each row
just come to this video to see if @Farmercop did that test... Since he normally does those sort of tests... Or even, if you could space out more some of the vines and use a traditional tractor with solid fertilizer instead of the sprayer
I have the same issue. After some testing i found that i can get to 100% if i mulch and cultivate everything, including under the vines. Doing one pass down the middle lands me on 96%-98%, it varies some. For me that is a loss i'm willing to take compared to the hassle and frustration getting stuck on poles and vines all the time. I also use the ingame fertspreader (42 m). Can be a pain to get through but saves so much time.
@@PedroLuisFerreira I noticed that it isn't so much how straight the rows are, but how uneven the ground is. I tried to use the GPS but now and then the tractor "wobbles" from side to side and that's when it get stuck when your trying to get really close. Glad that we are at least two with the same results 😀
At the beginning where you wait a day before mulching for me it took a month but when i changed the days per month to 1 i had to save and leave then re open the savegame for it to take effect
Hopefully with the improvements promised to the workers as time goes on that will be something we can get them to do, especially harvesting that should be very simple for the worker.
Is there any way to prune two rows of grapes at a time on the console. I’ve put the pre-pruner on front and back and it will do it, if I go real slow but getting it to stay lined up doesn’t work great.
to many grapes cause lag on consol be aware of that. at around 4HA its laggy if you have a farm already set up with alot of equipment. takes around 30 seconds in between each item deleted to remove then as well and removing them from plowed soil cultivated field.. turns it to regular grass.
After 3 years I have new problem that grape field seem dead, It said need plowing. I start with mulching but It seem like it does nothing. I skip to Disc-O-vigne V subsoiler seem like it change grass texture but the next day texture is back to before do Disc-O-vigne. Did it need to remove grape construction rows and start put a new ?
Hello Thank You For Your Beautiful videos verry helpful ! I like to start with Grapes on a piece of Lost Land behind the Road Can I Just start There or Do I have to plow it first? Greetz
3 years now I can't mulch for second time but I take exactly the same harvest . And the graphics sow me that I have grass on the field. Also I delete and remake the grape field but at both of the time the map show me that I need plow even I use every time the subsoil
So, I successfully grew grapes last season but, this season nothing grew. I did everything I was supposed too. What do I have to do to grow them every season?
With the game rating as it sits they cant put alcohol in the game anx cant release mods with alchol related products, but some 3rd party sites will likely release winery production facilities it just will be PC only
@@FarmerCop on ps4 before recent update it wasn't registering both being done at same time and still had to go thru orchard twice. Haven't tried post update tho. I prefer your tutorial videos above anyone else's btw
Go to your garage in the menu under the shop then click left or right and your leased items should come up rather than purchased items. Then you can click to return. Hope this helps
Did you go down each row twice ie left side then right side when mulching, it's a shame equipment isn't as wide as the narrowest you can place the vines
@@FarmerCopI also did twice but on the info help menu under grape it says mulch the middle to remove long grass/weeds so next time I'm just going down once and I'm guessing nothing will change but will check harvest percentage
@@tomallen3946 would love to know how this works because on map it looks like i did dots all over place so that doesnt help at all an whenlooking at it in game i have to go down row 2 times at least sometimes 3rd time if there spot i missed but getting stuck on poles so much i hate doing it now lol almost rather not do it at all but i dont knw how its really suppose to be done in this video he just went down outside an then it skips to whole thing being done so not sure how he did it in actual rows or how close he got or if he got stuck as well cause on outside there only one row to avoid when you have rows on both sides its alot harder to avoid collision. the map filter is worst part says needs rolling an plowing i plow the vineyard and it goes for red square on map to red square with tiny brown dots everywhere but stil 95% says needs plowing same with fert doesnt cover everything theres spots it just wont go to 100% also if i walk onto vines it will say needs plowing but doesnt tell me i need to mulch or culivate or prune even tho i know those steps are what i need to do but trying to do this without tuturials would be impossible to figure out because nothing works correctly on map filter or feild info when standing on it
I have a qw and I have not found the answer anywhere on the internet. I placed grapes down, did the entire process, harvested, pruned, then mulched again when the grass dot high, but it looks as though the land is already cultivated. Do i just need to do that once? Or do I need to continue to do it every time, even though there's no indication it is doing anything? Please help, someone! Thanks in advance :)
I’ve played all the farm Sims but to be honest got 22 yesterday and it’s the hardest to play out of all of them still getting used to the controls but it’s just a bit tricky to do everything on Xbox beeten when I get my pc and my wheel set up hopefully
You can build a production facility that turns it into "juice". I can't remember what it's called in game, but I saw it in build mode. I imagine they don't refer to it as wine, to keep the ESRP rating at "E".
@@jeremynichols2704 that would basically be a winery. You need a crusher to remove the stems, a press to press out the juice, and refrigerated tanks to hold the juice. That's pretty much a winery without a bottling line.
