prices (just silage?)

[Mad Scientist]

yo, for a while now the prices seem to be messed up completely, like roundabout 2 months or so? my buddy and I focussed heaviely on silage bales and had usually around 30k come from on shipping of 24 bales at a price of around 300(too lazy to calculate exact numbers), but at this rate (297) we get like 6k for the full load, anyone else experiencing this crap?xD makes the game kind of unenjoyable to me, pretty sure silage bales are not the only thing ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up right now, more like the whole prices overview table is ♥♥♥♥ and you can aswell just guess whats worth selling

[Maria]

Are you sure the bales were fully fermented before selling? Because if they are not, they won't sell for silage price.

[Stenleh44]

Yup…above. When I first started fs22 I kept forgetting the bales need to to ferment for 24hrs.

[Mad Scientist]

we had it the other way around, expected the bales to actually decay and lose worth that way maybe. I'll be on the lookout to check wether they are always all ripe for sale now, initially thought that the market wouldnt even take them when they are wrapped up and not completely fermented... so thanks for pointing that out!

[Stenleh44]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

we had it the other way around, expected the bales to actually decay and lose worth that way maybe. I'll be on the lookout to check wether they are always all ripe for sale now, initially thought that the market wouldnt even take them when they are wrapped up and not completely fermented... so thanks for pointing that out!

The bales not fully fermented are consider as grass. So you can sell them. I sold 48 bales and found out the hard way. I was so irritated.

[Absinthe Eyes]

you probably already know this, but remember that prices fluctuate across seasons to simulate real world supply and demand. The highest prices for silage are in the winter months, and lowest in late spring.

I used to stockpile all the bales I'd made around the year on whatever spare bit of land I could use without obstructing my work, and then I'd spend most of a day in January transporting it all to the animal dealers. The round bale type works better for this, as the round baler auto-wraps at 150cm, and the loader/trailer can carry more. I made 750k doing that in my first full game year, which meant I could reinvest that back into immediately buying the top range equipment.

It gets really tedious mowing, baling, wrapping, stowing, and rolling more than one field around 4-5 times a year, so before long you should seriously just switch over to bunker silage and use chaff instead, just so you don't go mad.

[Farmhouse]

for 24 150cm round bale loads I normally get somewhere around 70k, +/- 10k depending on the current price. So i would think if you have been getting 30k then they must not have been fully fermented.

[Xilter]

i am certain that i read somewhere that the game learns and it is possible to flood the market. if you continuously produce and sell the same product you will saturate the demand and drive prices down.

[935turbo]

Originally posted by Xilter:

i am certain that i read somewhere that the game learns and it is possible to flood the market. if you continuously produce and sell the same product you will saturate the demand and drive prices down.

The game doesn't have to learn market saturation because it is set in the xml for each sellpoint. Usually the amount before prices start to fall is 100000 or 200000 liters. by editing the xml file you can increase the amount that triggers price reduction or tell the sellpoint to ignore price reductions by setting the value for that product to true instead of false. You can also edit the number of hours for the price to recover(it is usually 48 hours).

[Mad Scientist]

alrighty, did a few days of testing and have come to the conclusion that its exactly as Maria and Stenleh44 had mentioned: We probably sold "lines" of bales that were not fully fermented and therefor grass. sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, my pc nearly died on me a week ago and the testing itself also took us a few days to finish.

@ArnoldBrosEst1905 thanks for the tip mate, we use the fast baler+anderson rbm2k since forever now, tried the bunker silo but failed to compact before it was full, thinking it doesnt matter when you do it, wich was a huge mistake... took us forever to correct. we stepped down to the big drive-through and feed our biogas out of that, probably gonna add a second, so we can always have some ready. Also tested every baler+wrapper+carrier by now.
At this point we have a pretty decent farm with probably the best stuff already, took us like 200h already just on Erlengrat, but oh boy is that map sweet. So we're just hoping for the savestates to carry on through the update and dlc releases while waiting for new toys.