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At its core,Farming Simulator 25is about making money. Even if you play FS25 for a pure love of agriculture, there’s no denying that you’ll need some serious cash to pay for all the expensive equipment, plots of land, and other such resources. Sometimes you just need to make some extra cash.
The methods and practices listed below are some of the best ways to make more money than you’ll need. Some are quick and easy, giving you that final bump of cash you need. Others may require some effort but offer the biggest profit margins you’ll ever see. They span the entire gambit of investment cost, too, allowing million-dollar farmers and deep-in-debt challenge players alike to take advantage of what they offer.
Complete Contracts
It’s not glamorous, but one ofthe easiest ways to make extra thousands is to complete the game’s built-in contracts. These tasks offer limited-time objectives to complete on the designated fields. They range from every stage of the farming process,from weeding to harvesting. There are also miscellaneous jobs likebreaking rocks, cutting down trees, and just delivering logs. The pay for each task varies by complexity and the size of the field they’re asking for help with.
Claiming low-complexity tasks on large fields is a great way to make easy money. This will be tasks like cultivating, plowing, or weeding/hoeing.
Best of all, you don’t even need to do it yourself. If you accept the rental equipment’s minimal fee, andhire an AI worker to do the job, you can let them do all the work while you focus on your own farm. Once they’re done, claim the reward money for yourself!
Buy Power Generators
The prime example of how being rich makes you money, buying power generators and placing them on your farm is theeasiest way to establish a reliable passive income. The more money you can afford to spend, the more money you’ll permanently earn each month.
Positive returns happen surprisingly quickly, too.Every option will ‘pay itself off’ in 12 months.
$7,800
$648
$93,500
$8,928
$11,400
$984
$155,000
$13,920
$750,000
$67,680
The best choice is the Large Solar Collector. The price is more approachable than most other generators, and ittakes up much less spacethan the turbines. It also has thehighest investment-to-profit ratio.
The monthly income is an estimate, assuming 100 percent of the month was sunny.Cloudy and rainy weather will reduce your total profit.
Convert Trees To Wood Chips
Forestry is a gold mine if you know how to utilize it.Instead of selling the logs outright or converting them to production goods,consider throwing them into a wood chipper.
Wood Chipping Equipment
Selling wood chips offersamazing profit while requiring very little equipment. There areall sorts of forestry itemsthat can help make this process bigger, faster, or more efficient. Butif saving money is your goal, these are all you need.
If you want to be sustainable, you’ll also needa stump grinderto remove the leftover stump anda tree planterto replace the trees you cut down.
How To Make Wood Chips
Usingthe minimal approach, the full harvest process is as simple as a few steps:
If the wood chipper doesn’t stay running when you exit the tractor,disable Automatic Engine Start from the Game Settings menu.
The best trees are pines or other straight trees. These are often less dense but offer a much easier-to-work-with shape.Lodgepole pines are idealbecause they’re straight, decently dense, and regrow in as quickly as two years.
Wood chips sell best in January. Since tree growth is not tied to the seasons, this means you’re able to chop down the trees, wood chip them, sell that, and replace saplingsall in the same month without a loss of profit. This also means youdon’t need to invest in large quantity storagefor trees or wood chips.
Poplar, which is grown and harvested closer to how traditional crops do, isanother way to produce a large quantity of wood chips quickly. However, due to the time commitment, cost of equipment, and slow growth process,we recommend wood-chipping regular trees over poplar.
Convert Grass To Silage
One thing that all Farming Simulator veterans can agree on is thatsilage is where the money is.Essentially fermented grass, it’s a multi-step process that can bedone in large quantities almost year-roundand sells for an impressive profit.
It’s arguably the MOST profitable pathway, butdue to its high turn-around rate and somewhat lengthy process, it can be very time-consuming.
If youparticipate in animal husbandry, then you probably have most of the equipment you need already.
Silage Equipment
Making silage requiresquite a few tools. This can vary by the different methods of making silage, as well. We’ve outlined everything you will need for both processes.
The most horsepower-demanding tool will be your baler, so make sure you havea tractor with enough horsepowerfor that.
You can bundle the mowing, windrowing, and pickup phases into one bybuying a forage harvester with a mower attachment. This can be an expensive investment, however.
How To Make Silage
Silage starts with a field of grass. Plant and maintain a grass field like normal, then follow these steps:
From here, itsplits into one of two methods: bales or bunkers.Bales are better for smaller-scale silage productionbut require more expensive equipment. Inversely, the bigger your silage production, the more effort and time baling takes.Bunkers require a greater variety of cheaper items, as well as a dedicated bunker silo location, but it can save you a lot of time, especially if it’s for larger amounts.
Baling
If you don’t want to invest in a bale trailer that picks them up automatically,you can manually stack the bales onto standard bale trailers using any tool with a bale spike attachment. One affordable option is to get afront loader attachment for a small tractorand a front loader bale spike for that.
To ensure that the conveyors stay running,disable Automatic Engine Start from the game settings.
Silage doesn’t change price throughout the year, so you’re able to sell it at any time.A single 220cm square bale of silage will sell for around $1,250.
With grass reaching its best growth state in only a few months, you’ll find yourselffollowing through this process multiple times a year. This makes it supremely profitable over a short time, though you might find yourself growing tired of the process quickly.
