my tips for starting out.

[Obliv]

this is only my method of starting out, maybe others have different or better methods but this is what i did.. you may need to earn money between each of the following steps, ive just tried to keep it short n' sweet.

1) sell the 4 old school tractors, and the crappy "wheel barrow" sized trailer you start with.

2) buy the gilbert 1800 trailer and hook it up to the green and yellow tractor you start with, empty all grain silo's. it will also make it easier and quicker to harvest the first field as you wont have to do so many trips to the dumping stations.

3) buy the amazone D9 seeder and use it with the blue cultivator on the front of your ORANGE tractor. your hired help may skip a little patch on the end, but its a small price to pay.. sometimes the help screws up and tries to double back. keep en eye on them.

you could also use the Horsch T3D manually and do a better job yourself as it cultivates and seeds in one pass but is best used manually (no hired help)

when using either tool, whenever they turn around just watch out as they may put out the wrong guide and carve a groove in your newly seeded field.. when they turn around i usually press Z twice to bring it in and not use it at all.

4) when finances permit, buy field #15. use plough and *NEATLY* and slowly make a border across each end of the field, then fill in the centre by doing longer runs length ways from one edge to the other.. try keep your border as neat as possible and you can just "cut loose" when filling in the centre.
this makes both fields into one larger field - easier for your hired help as you dont have to baby sit them as much and they will work for longer.

you can see here, ive ploughed the roadway between fild #15 + 16, making it one large field.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577845242963389378/4FAFE4B34AC0D8D914F39946E55B038DC5FA0D83/

5) buy the sprayer and the extra tank for it. (total of $30k) and you can spray fields to get a better yield, earning more money per harvest.

6) when you have enough money, buy field 14. use "as is" (no ploughing extensions)

7) eventually you can afford $88k for field # 13.
field 13 has a dirt road around the entire block, much like a border. One side of this field has a shed..
use plough, and drive with your wheels on the edge of the grass and dirt road so you keep a nice straight line. i like to plough that field right out to the OUTER edge of the roadway on 3 of the 4 sides.

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577845242962908810/5DB47AC6BCB93C86125478A25E6D43DD8A215FA1/

the side with the shed - only plough to the START of the road, so your hired help can turn the vehicles around... if you plough right out to the shed they wont have room for turn around (see link below)

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/577845242962886964/C91D94F67257B66940151F32850C755FDC076104/
you will gain a HUGE amount of field by doing this.. just remember - use the outer edge of the road as your border when ploughing.. but dont plough over the road in front of shed.

8) save up for the horsch terrano 8fx cultivator, and the amazone Cayenna 6001 seeder. both approx 7m width, so your turn around time between field harvest/seeding is reduced significantly.

from there you should have enough fields and decent equipment to get you well underway financially.

i like to buy a lot of fields.. the more work that harvester has to do, the more steady your income will be.
if your always waiting for crops to grow your income will take forever to build and the game will feel very slow.
more fields = more to harvest = more work and more money.
not much point having a $200k harvester and other fancy machinery if its always sitting around waiting for the next crop.

this is not a complete A-Z guide, but rather a few steps that can help you get going better in a lot less time.

hope it helps, bliv.

[eagleFMJ]

Thanks for the tips!

eagle

[AProudTeddyBear]

thanks for these tips! they helped me alot!

[Jindub]

Thanks for the great tips!

[Soapspud]

dont need a cultivator with the cayene6001 seeder it cultivates and seeds