BGA: Grass, Pig or Cow?

[FRANKDREBIN]

I want a BGA on my save and I was going to work with grass only to test some equipment from Göweil DLC, but I saw on reddit people saying that the silage profit doesn´t increase that much on bga. Also its selling price doesn´t seem a big deal on hard difficulty.

Should I go with cows or pigs slurry instead if I want more profit?
Or the bales are enough to do and get a lot of power from the bga

[Splattergutz]

I'm not doing pigs so can't comment on them but cow slurry isn't really worth the effort. Like once you buy the slurry trailer you need to sell a huge amount of slurry to make your money back.
I found it better to use it as fertiliser or not at all. You also need a huge amount of it to do any real fertilising. I just let it max out in the provided tank. It doesn't impact anything.

[FRANKDREBIN]

I gave up of the pigs after some months only feeding potatoes to the poor beasts.
Sold em all, the pigsty, the slurry tanker. I just stuck to sheeps instead.

But as I wanted a secondary activity I went to grass. Enjoyed using this Krone Big M, pretty quick to drive and you don´t need to rake the grass later. Got a 240 cm square baler and one of the fields is enough to feed all my sheeps. I have 6 barns, 6 spinneries and 4 taylor houses and Im doing 450k / year.

Next year Ill buy the Göweil stationery baler and on the other year finally a small BGA.

Probably won´t go backs to pigs too soon. Maybe I´ll work with cows one day if I become too bored with the save...

[Splattergutz]

I'm still doing sheep but have 500 cattle(beef) also now. Just to try them. Not sure they are worth effort as yet. Need a large investment to start out with cattle. They produce huge amounts of slurry and manure.(once straw is added) I'm using it to fertilise part of my grass crops. They need huge amounts of grass and hay. So I'm using the fields to feed them sometimes. So really not sure about them.

I use the clothes shop mod for the sheep, I know you don't like to use mods but it's one of those mods I'm sure will be in the base game for FS25. It just makes sense. The clothes shop just eliminates the need for a spinneries. I tested using both the ingame spinnery and the tailor and there is no difference. The shop mod just makes it a little less time consuming. No need to do an extra pick up/drop off.

[FRANKDREBIN]

I dont see spinneries as a hassle, I just put em to autodistribute.

So I have to load the wool on the spinneries once a month and carry the boxes on the taylorhouses in april to the supermarket.

[Splattergutz]

I don't consider the spinneries as much a hassle as they are time consuming. And that's the real reason I use some mods. There's a charge for the auto-distribution I believe. But not sure it really matters once the dollars start to roll in. Lots of money in sheep.

[FRANKDREBIN]

I saved money for two years and built a Medium BGA. Glad that I didn´t made the biggest one that would be double work, while the small one would be insignificant money.

Im a bit disappointed with the income / work rate, yearly it´s just a bit over 1 taylorhouse (I have 4)

I rented the Göweil DLC kombi but the round bales are so small. Even if the machine engineering is very cool IRL it wears the novelty pretty quick since it´s capacity is minimum and you have to drive only a few meters then stop, then repeat. It was tedious to make a field with 50 bales. Even worse is picking every one of them.

At least now I planted grass pretty close the BGA so the trips will be shorter, but I´ll test the stationery baler or even the grass silo to see if it´s better to work with.

[Splattergutz]

I use Kuhn SB 1290 baler. It doesn't stop and does most bale sizes. Some of the smaller balers are good but slow. Having to stop with the smaller balers is a hassle but also having to stop at the right time is important otherwise I have to reverse all the time.

For silage I use the Krone Big M mower set to swathe and I just follow it with the baler and then finish with the Kuhn SW 4014 bale wrapper. No need to use a windrower for silage.

For hay I have the mower set to spread and use the Samasz P8-890 tedder and the Oxbo 2340 windrower.( I have the premium edition so I'm not sure if everything is available.) But I also use drying barns for hay. Mods, but I don't understand why drying barns or something similar are not in the base game. They exist in the real world.

[FRANKDREBIN]

I was not satisfied with my bga work and went to try a new method.

I think I got a game changer now. Placed a big grass silo besides the BGA.
Then rented as a test a 50m² loader and a forage harvester.

Now I can let the AI harvest the grass for hours and then I load it into the silo.
And I´m using my 30 ton potato harvester to compress it.

Then I´ll buy something like the Siloking to collect the silage and drive a few meters to the bga (this one I saw randomly a guy doing on a yt video)

this will be much quicker than cuting grass with the Krone Big M then collecting with the Göweil baler driving slowly while it wrap bales and have to drive around the fields with a fork picking every bale to deliver to the bga.

I will still keep the Krone tho to use with the Claas baler (which is non-stop too) to make 240 cm bales for my sheeps.


https://youtu.be/GHYIWfbyRFY

[FRANKDREBIN]

Forget the last phrase.
Im just selling all my baling stuff (the krone grass harvester, ,the claas baler and even a front loader that I used to pick up bales on the field).

I just realized it´s not worthy the effort.

My sheep barns were built pretty close the shop, closer than any of my grass fields. I can just buy once an year 30 something bales and pick up them in piles of 4 with my big manitou forklift from the platinum dlc. The money spent is worthy the work of cutting the grass, baling and loading it.

Also it´s good to have 2 less vehicles to tab

Since I liked the move from bales to compressing grass silo on bga subject, after 217 bales created this save the baling will be retired. I had my share of fun with it, to be honest more with the vanilla Claas baler than the paid equiment from Göweil DLC - and now is time to move on

[Splattergutz]

FRANKDREBIN lähetti viestin:

Forget the last phrase.
Im just selling all my baling stuff (the krone grass harvester, ,the claas baler and even a front loader that I used to pick up bales on the field).

I just realized it´s not worthy the effort.

My sheep barns were built pretty close the shop, closer than any of my grass fields. I can just buy once an year 30 something bales and pick up them in piles of 4 with my big manitou forklift from the platinum dlc. The money spent is worthy the work of cutting the grass, baling and loading it.

Also it´s good to have 2 less vehicles to tab

Since I liked the move from bales to compressing grass silo on bga subject, after 217 bales created this save the baling will be retired. I had my share of fun with it, to be honest more with the vanilla Claas baler than the paid equiment from Göweil DLC - and now is time to move on