Sunflower Oil Vs Canola

[Orca MS15LF]

I wonder if it's worth buying a factory to make sunflower oil. I can't remember if there's another use for the sunflower oil apart from selling it. If there isn't another use, then there's no point in making sunflower oil when the canola makes so much more money than the sunflower oil.

[deckerdave1973]

Not alot of profit in either canola oil or sunflower oil. I use my canola and sunflowers to make diesel with pig food and compost as a byproduct.

[realzorbo]

when the oil production is full of canola and olives the sunflower oil production can still run for additional coins. It is just another production line in the same factory, might as well use it. Depending on your canola and sunflower production you may find you have enough to run the diesel production, too.

[Orca MS15LF]

Thanks you two. I'm going to look into the diesel thing.

Two crops that are a waste of time are potatoes and sugar beat. They cost way too much to plant, the harvester for each is way over $400.000 and the income is terrible. One time in FS 19, with one of my fields, it cost me over $90,000 to plant my potatoes and the seeder runs out fast. When I harvested my potatoes I made just over $80,000 so I made no profit and I never got back all the money I spent planting the potatoes. Even if I did, not only would it have been pointless with no profit. Not to mention being way over $400.000 in buying the seeder and the harvester together. I found out sugar beat is just as pointless in the same way.

[nebron1962]

Originally posted by Orca MS15LF:

Thanks you two. I'm going to look into the diesel thing.

Two crops that are a waste of time are potatoes and sugar beat. They cost way too much to plant, the harvester for each is way over $400.000 and the income is terrible. One time in FS 19, with one of my fields, it cost me over $90,000 to plant my potatoes and the seeder runs out fast. When I harvested my potatoes I made just over $80,000 so I made no profit and I never got back all the money I spent planting the potatoes. Even if I did, not only would it have been pointless with no profit. Not to mention being way over $400.000 in buying the seeder and the harvester together. I found out sugar beat is just as pointless in the same way.

There are no seeds to buy, just save some of the last crop to fill your planter. Once you buy the equipment it's mo money, mo money, mo money.

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by nebron1962:

Originally posted by Orca MS15LF:

Thanks you two. I'm going to look into the diesel thing.

Two crops that are a waste of time are potatoes and sugar beat. They cost way too much to plant, the harvester for each is way over $400.000 and the income is terrible. One time in FS 19, with one of my fields, it cost me over $90,000 to plant my potatoes and the seeder runs out fast. When I harvested my potatoes I made just over $80,000 so I made no profit and I never got back all the money I spent planting the potatoes. Even if I did, not only would it have been pointless with no profit. Not to mention being way over $400.000 in buying the seeder and the harvester together. I found out sugar beat is just as pointless in the same way.

There are no seeds to buy, just save some of the last crop to fill your planter. Once you buy the equipment it's mo money, mo money, mo money.

I've bought seeds and they were turned into potatoes for planting.

How come the income is always so small?

[terry]

Originally posted by Orca MS15LF:

Thanks you two. I'm going to look into the diesel thing.

Two crops that are a waste of time are potatoes and sugar beat. They cost way too much to plant, the harvester for each is way over $400.000 and the income is terrible. One time in FS 19, with one of my fields, it cost me over $90,000 to plant my potatoes and the seeder runs out fast. When I harvested my potatoes I made just over $80,000 so I made no profit and I never got back all the money I spent planting the potatoes. Even if I did, not only would it have been pointless with no profit. Not to mention being way over $400.000 in buying the seeder and the harvester together. I found out sugar beat is just as pointless in the same way.

I generally dont mess with potatoes but beets are definitely worth it. Of course the equipment costs quite a bit but you can lease a lot cheaper if you want to and it doesnt take long to recover the cost of the beet harvester if you do buy it, unless you are just planting 1 or 2 small fields. Out of curiosity, what economic difficulty setting are you playing on?

[deckerdave1973]

To be fair, I am not getting rich off of diesel production, but I am producing fuel for my farm and a few productions facilities. The byproducts are pig feed and compost. The compost gets used in the orchards. Good money in orchards!

I agree that sugar beets are worth it. I have my field directly beside the sugar mill, so i drive the harvester over and dump directly into the mill, and then once it is full, it goes directly into the beet cutter and then into the mill.

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by terry:

Originally posted by Orca MS15LF:

Thanks you two. I'm going to look into the diesel thing.

Two crops that are a waste of time are potatoes and sugar beat. They cost way too much to plant, the harvester for each is way over $400.000 and the income is terrible. One time in FS 19, with one of my fields, it cost me over $90,000 to plant my potatoes and the seeder runs out fast. When I harvested my potatoes I made just over $80,000 so I made no profit and I never got back all the money I spent planting the potatoes. Even if I did, not only would it have been pointless with no profit. Not to mention being way over $400.000 in buying the seeder and the harvester together. I found out sugar beat is just as pointless in the same way.

I generally dont mess with potatoes but beets are definitely worth it. Of course the equipment costs quite a bit but you can lease a lot cheaper if you want to and it doesnt take long to recover the cost of the beet harvester if you do buy it, unless you are just planting 1 or 2 small fields. Out of curiosity, what economic difficulty setting are you playing on?

I had the same thing with sugar beet. The only thing I find it beneficial for in FF 22 is to make sugar. I hope my cakes work this time because the last time I was playing this game, it was on the PS 4 version and my cakes were being baked and none of them were spawning in the collection zone.

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by deckerdave1973:

To be fair, I am not getting rich off of diesel production, but I am producing fuel for my farm and a few productions facilities. The byproducts are pig feed and compost. The compost gets used in the orchards. Good money in orchards!

I agree that sugar beets are worth it. I have my field directly beside the sugar mill, so i drive the harvester over and dump directly into the mill, and then once it is full, it goes directly into the beet cutter and then into the mill.

I'm mostly doing soybeans and flax that makes great money. Flax cost more money to plant but there's the straw afterwards. I only have one more filed to buy in my world and when I've harvested everything, I make over $4,300,000 each time with soybeans and about $5,600,000 and that includes the straw. The last lot of straw I sold, I made over $1,300,000 for it, maybe over $1,400,000. Lentils is worth spit. The yield is so low. When I looked at the belt on my header when I harvested lentils, only half the width of the belt had lentils on it and the other crops cover the whole width of the belt. One field I harvested lentils on, after I finished harvesting, my combine harvester was 98% full and I never had to empty it once. When I've harvested soybeans and flax from that same field, I have to empty my combine harvester twice and I still have another load from each that has almost filled my combine harvester. Peas sell for good money but they cost too much to plant where the seeds run out faster than they do compared to flax. I can;t remember with peas comparing the seeds with the fertiliser. With flax, when my seeds have run out, I have about 73% of my fertiliser left. When I plant soybeans, then the seeds run out, I have about 16% fertiliser left.

When I harvest, I never go along a field from top to bottom or across from left to right. I harvest on an angle. It doesn't matter what corner I start from. For example, if I start from the bottom-left and work my way to the top-right, I get a bigger yield. The numbers of my crop race up faster. It doesn't matter what crop I'm harvesting. When I've harvested in a straight line, the numbers go up slower where the yield is smaller. I discovered this in FS 17 years ago.