Power generation & passive income

[MADhorseKD]

Allow me a small jest at the expense of the game and actual real life for a moment.

I love how the best way to make money, in thus far most farming sim games in this series, is to still buy wind turbines and invest in passive incomes. ^^'

Farmers go through so much effort to try and scrape by, when in reality they can stop producing anything and simply invest into power generation. It really makes you think ^^'

In other news, am i doing something wrong?
I have 2 massive fields and i make wheat.
I guess i should invest into more fields and different crops to keep myself busy the entire year.

[HurtfulPlayer97]

The best way to make money from crops is Productions. You are never going to get rich just selling wheat, but you can selling Bread.

[deckerdave1973]

I actually ruined my farm in fs 15 when I realized that solar and wind was the way to bring in the big $$. Pretty soon I would wake up, watch my expenses for the day get covered in an hour or so. I even stopped putting in crops and sold all the animals. Next thing I knew, I was playing something else.

Not saying it was wrong, it just shows that there are many ways to play the game. I resisted the urge this time, and managed to farm entire elm creek map. Now I want to try a bigger map.

I agree that productions are the way to go. It even gives you something to look forward to in the slow times......My bread and flour payday in dec is always anticipated. As is selling clothes in apr.

[MADhorseKD]

i 100% wanna try the forestry thing as well. See what i can manage to do, if only as a way to relax.

[bnorberger]

In Silverrun Forest its super easy to make money because there's an ore mine where you collect an unlimited supply of free iron ore and all you have to do is build some iron furnaces and sell the rolls of metal that they produce.

[tinman7157]

Im looking for new farmers to help settle no mans land farm managers wanted

[The Nugget]

One of my fav things to do is just hitch up the old F150 and a trailer and take a chainsaw out to the trees, in No Mans Land, then cut a load and bring it back to the chipper. Chip it up, instant cash, but not too much. I use the supplied gear to harvest the given field as I go.
I've been and made MASSIVE fields and got the big gear only to end up restarting it all and going back to basic farm with some wood cutting to kill the time.

[ScareCrow]

I strongly advice AGAINST all passive income, its basicly playingh the game without you doing anything, and seriously whats the fun in that? its like cheating tbh might aswell just cheat moeny into the game if you play with passive income, thats my take on it