Raising cattle

[arvee]

Just wondering, I realize this is a Farming Simulator but was curious if it would be possible to just raise cattle, probably not huh?

[BLZBUB]

You can. However you'd need to buy all the feed.

[arvee]

I thought you could only buy cows, not beef cattle?

[BLZBUB]

there are different breeds of cattle, choose the beef ones if they're available for that map.

[Andros]

There’s the dairy cow and beef cow

[arvee]

Thank you

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I raise cattle almost exclusively. It's quite a bit of work to get the best results but it keeps me doing things with purpose in the game versus just planting and harvesting crops for money so I really enjoy it.

There are two types of cattle. Dairy and beef. The dairy cows are used to harvest milk for sale at the sell points and the beef cattle are used to buy and sell for profit. Both are fun.

If you want slurry for fertilizer, you'll want a cattle barn that produces that. If you simply want the milk or just a place to fatten up the beef cattle, you can opt for a simple pasture.

Creating the slurry requires the barn to have a bed of straw which means you have to harvest straw and use a straw blower to spread it into the barn which also means a little more work than simply providing water and feed.

Finally, for the best possible results you want to feed all cows Total Mix Ration exclusively and to do that efficiently its best to use a TMR mixing station. There are different varieties of those, some of which take smaller amounts of hay, straw, silage and mineral feed as well as larger ones that can handle a really large amount of those ingredients if you have a large operation.

Hope this helps!