Grapes Thoughts

[Verios44]

I finally setup a small grape viniard and here are my thoughts on the whole process.

Pros, thoughts

1. All the listed equipment for grapes combined is really useful. That entire page which shows recommended equipment was a godscend.

2. At first, I thought it would be miserable. I was told its a totally manual process.

3. The hardest part is actually placing the vines themselves. Its a little tricky to alogn the rows of vines straight.

4. The small equipment makes total sense after you have to use it. Btw you can have both the mulcher and cultivator attached at once and it will save you alot of time. The fertilizer for it, I like its animation.

5. Harvesting machine for grapes is quite cool to actually use

The cons

1. The hitboxes with the vine posts is finicky. You have to be very careful. It can cause your tractor or harvester to get stuck over the slightest wrong move.

[Hawkeye]

Publicado originalmente por Verios44:

Publicado originalmente por Hawkeye:

I'm starting to wonder if grapes are even worth it, or if this crappy economy is consistent everywhere. My vineyard cost us $825k to set up, including $250k for the vines, $80k for the plot of land, $80 for the grape processing unit and $80k for the farmer's market. The rest of that is invested in the harvester and other grape-specific machinery.

We just completed our first harvest. We had carefully done everything right, 100% fertilized, mulched, cultivated, etc and were excited to finally make a sale. We processed everything into grape juice and then sold to the farmer's market in November at a pretty high rate. We ended up selling 21 pallets for $30k. At that rate, we'll be 28 years before we break even on our investment, NOT including fuel, fertilizer, repair/repaint fees, etc. Is this consistent with every other method?

did you sell at the right place? In my game its showing grape juice with a price of

farm shop: 3351

raisins

farm shop: 2911

olive oil

farm shop: 5495

rough math says you should have doubled what you sold 21 pallets for of grape juice.

The price was around 3400 at the Farmer's Market in November. Highest I've seen is 3800, but that was prior to harvest.

[u2020bullet]

Best i've seen was 2608, absolutely not worth it, especially considering the massive amount of money and time you have to sink into it at the start. 2 harvests and i only have like 30k worth of grapes.