WHAT CROP MAKES MORE MONEY? - Farming Simulator 19 Test Video 

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.

Especially when prices for soy get up to $3000+ 1kL

I plant soy too, my game soy prices are 2800~3000

i used to grow soy on fs17 but in fs19 i prefer canola. Its a simple crop and pays more than soy

Yeah soy normally does much better than this, the price he used was way too low. The 3 grain crops that leave straw have similar profit per acre to each other (about $4100 per acre at base price on medium) but is the lowest as they make up for it with the straw, the other 4 grain crops have have higher profit per acre (about $5100 per acre) then comes cotton which makes almost double, potatoes and sugar beet which do make double, then sugar cane which makes quadruple the profit as soy/canola/corn/sunflower. Chaffing corn and making silage makes similar profit to sugar cane

There are other things that need to be taken in consideration. 1 - More yield means that you need to be be constantly unloading the harvester. That means you can't do anything else during the harvesting process. Other things that could also give you money. 2 - Potatoes, sugar-beet and sugarcane harvesters have a very small width. It takes FOREVER to harvest. I can harvest, seed and harvest soy again with the time it takes me to do potatoes/sugar-beet/sugarcane. 3 - Wheat, barley and oats are only significantly better than soy and canola if you sell the straw, but again, that takes time, and time is money.

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

Thank you! And thats a good way to do it haha :)

That’s just called being smart lol

i didnt even think about this, its so simple, im just rlly impatient lol

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.

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

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

Thank you, that does make sense. Sometimes i view everything as a boost vs a deficir but in reality the way it is in game certain things boost yield while others are just a deficit if it is not done

You are welcome Nick! And that is the beauty of it you can plug in whatever prices you want into the table now :)

Thank you :)

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

ive been playing since 2015 and never knew it either, i thought i was so smart only doing soybeans

I just sow all fields with one crop(excluding root crops grass and oilseed radish and corn for silage)and rotate each time

Definitely agree, definitely more factors to consider :)

You are welcome! Very true,the yield numbers can hopefully be applied to other situations to help decide the best crops tp do

Good point! I would love to see this in fs 22!

Would love this in 22 too. Maybe there is, if it won't be in vanilla, a possibility to make this a mod?

A nice idea, but should all maps then have the same prices? Or should it be segregated by map?

@@CristiNeagu I think treating the FS comunity as one 'nation' economy would keep things simple, and would reflect to players whats being commonly produced and what is being less farmed at any given moment, hence an opportunity to fill a demand in the market.

This would be awsome

Thank you and welcome to the channel :)

I love FS19 as much now as I did when it came out, well actually I love it more now

Farmer Cop looking forward to you posting more man

Thank you :)

Your welcome :)

Thank you :) same here i love doing soy haha. I agree i may go back and do a more detailed test at some point to incorpirate longer profitability and some of the additional costs

On stone valley seasons my rotation: 160 acres: spring beans- winter oats- double crop beans 195 acres: corn on corn.

Same here! I used to do soy all the time but i may have to change my ways

Oma Tana! Nice to see you. :)

They are a lucrative crop, they don't take a lot of space, so you can haul LARGE fields easily with one harvesting pass, unlike the grass crops where you need to get the straw, requiring fairly expensive trailers to carry a fairly small amount (unfortunately, you can't use a forage wagon to pick up straw any more). When starting out, ALWAYS USE WHEAT and pick up the straw. It gets you a lot of cash for quite a lot of work, but not as much as potatoes or beets or sugarcane, even when you use the half-million machines. Sugarcane falls down, as do poplars, because they take so long to grow, you don't get much per day, because growing takes more days. You move on to soybeans because you how have enough money and big enough fields so that you are more for value returned on energy invested. Picking up straw is less profitable than doing a harvest contract taking the same time, so if you wanted more profit, you'd dump straw and do contracts. Cotton's main saving grace is that it is easy to do yourself in-cab because there are very clear rows to follow. It only has a 6m header, so you can't earn as quick as you can with seed crops and a 45 foot header, but you can do it yourself REAL easy, whilst harvest headers you either need a large amount of overlap, wasting 5ft or more of header in empty air, or go third person. The biggest problem for saving time is the self fertilising sowers, both planters and seeders. You don't save any time, really, because you waste a lot of fertiliser on wasted ground, because unlike seed, fertiliser goes out over any ground, not just where it can plant a seed. So you have to take care or waste a lot of product. And what little time is saved you lose because you can't seed and fertilise over already fertilised ground, nor can you fertilise just planted seed, meaning you have to wait for a growth stage to happen to get the second fertilisation done. Without that direct drill and fertilise stage, you can cultivate, fertilise, seed then fertilise again, saving a LOT of time because you can do them immediately one after the other rather than having to wait.

@@markhackett2302 You're right when you count the amount of work and time as well. Soybean is very good, when you don't want to invest a lot of time and you have huge fields. But as you said, in the beginning, When you have few small fields, wheat is much better, mainly because of the straw.

Always do soy, it's price is getting up very often, I wait one day or less to sell up to 1700. For me it is profitable because less time to make the amount of money that the other cereals. And without less equipment to do straw.

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

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@@madman1532 yes

@@madman1532 what about it xd

Very very true, silage is a a big go to for me to make money

Your welcome! Glad you enjoyed :)

Eventually I will do a seasons tutorial series and test video series

Thanks!

Amen to that tons of variables haha to consider when trying to decide the best crop to do for a farm

Thank you for that idea that is a great question and I will likely post a video on this soon

Thank you, welcome to the channel and thank you for the support it means a lot to us and we need it

Same bro

Thank you :)

Absolutely :)

Very true, silage would have added in a lot of additional factors to consider as I would have had to test most crops again as most can be whole cropped so I did not want to run that in this video

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

Thank you! And i agree that can change things for sure

Your welcome! It is more labor intensive but it does have a decent pay out

You’ll only do it once, it’s so time consuming playing solo even with helpers

hybrid9mm I actually just got my first harvest done and really enjoyed it. I can definitely see how it would get boring though, especially if you’re doing a lot of it

I’m on console so I’m missing the GPS and AI helper scripts etc, so yeah for me once was enough, although in multiplayer it would work better

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.

Seed goes from 500l per hectare down to 200l per hectare, but seed costs 1000 per litre and what you get per hectare is higher for wheat than it is for soybeans, so to a large extent, it evens out. Even if it did, you get 5-8,000 litres per hectare, making the 2-500l difference meaningless in scale.

Seeds will change the price a bit but like Mark said it wont be drastic. There are so many factors to consider when deciding the best crop fpr your farm

@@FarmerCop except for root crops, where the amount of seed needed goes through the roof (especially for potatoes). Personally, I try to figure out what would be grown in the region the map portrays irl and stick to those crops. And then I tend to play with seasons and you end up with sometimes complex crop rotations.

@@jwenting Beets use seed, so wrong there. Potatoes can use potatoes, so wrong there, except in the start-off, and you can keep contract output for that, and the payout for potatoes assume you will be paying for seed, not using potatoes. Oh, and sugarcane you convert to seed in the planter, and it is cheaper than the sale price in normal, so you can make some bank just buying sugarcane pallets at 140 per thousand and selling for anywhere up to 250 per thousand.

Thats good to hear! :)

Oh, and I did this calculation with field 13. So in a much smaller field like 29 the difference would be much lower. Either way, I think you should do the crop you like best. I just like Canola because it's black hahaha

Thank you for sharing all that that makes a huge difference, time wise if you have animals ect around the farm soy is great because it does not take the time you need for caring for your animals for examlple, very good points and sugarcane is very labor intensive haha :)

@@FarmerCop Yes that's why I relly love soybeans and canola. And yeah, sugarcane is a LOT OF WORK xD

Youre welcome! And that is a very valid point there is a lot of variation in time needed, equipment costs, seeds, ect.

For sure! So im curious as to what is the best "Profit per hour" persay

@@beegekhaos3171 best profit is soy followed by cotton and silage

@@LuziBeerbaum Oh, interesting. Corm for the silage i assume?

@@beegekhaos3171 It depends. corn produces more biomass which is better for vanilla. With seasons it's best to mix it so you can harvest twice per year and don't have to deal with crop rotation. I actually change wheat for corn every other season cause i need the straw for my cattle. If you need hay for TMR produce silage, sell some of it, buy hay at the shop and earn a litte money.

Thank you :)

Haha people just enjoy the test vids! All very good options to extend the profit significantly :)

Sugarcane is definitely labor intensive but does have a crazy high yield

All based on a single harvest, cotton does not grow back

Thank you :) haha i used to play AOE 2 all the time

Great question, all crops grow at the same speed except sugarcane that takes twice as long.

@@FarmerCop thanks I didn't know this.

Each map can have a huge price variation for sure

That is a great way to do it and makes sense

Very true. Potatoes and sugarcane that take more seed can be recycled to use as seed after the first harvest so after thatbthey are about the same cost

That may be true, just estimates i used haha. You are welcome :)

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.

I do want to do a better video with more detail :)

That is very true forestry is extremely profitable :)

Thank you :)