What Should I be Buying?

[boxanata]

So I'm new to this game & was curious as to what I should invest my money on to help me make money fairly quickly? I sold one of my H488's to buy a fertilizer spreader, so I'm covered in that department. I was thinking about FC 3525 F Mower?

What would be the best investment?

Cheers.

[tango777]

A good combine is best as it harvest faster and holds more . I usually plant conola as it gives the most money . Try not to buy anything that has a slow return at first such as cows and sheep . If you have or buy one, a small fertilizer spreader can give better yields of crops .

[boxanata]

Originally posted by tango777:

A good combine is best as it harvest faster and holds more . I usually plant conola as it gives the most money . Try not to buy anything that has a slow return at first such as cows and sheep . If you have or buy one, a small fertilizer spreader can give better yields of crops .

Hmm, should I really be buying a new harvester so early on? Is that not quiet expensive for early game?
Anyway, I went ahead & bought a new tipper, & I already have a fertilizer spreader. I don't think I'll be buying cows or sheep until very late in the game.

[sonofori]

tango777 is right but if you want a way that can get you a lot of mony you can go to the atm and borrow enought to buy a solsr panel then speed up the time and ounce you have enough mony buy another solar panel then reapet that proces until you can then buy a wind turbine and then reapeat it with the wind turbine and you get a lot of mony p.s. try to leave the game running over night also i have about $5,000,000 in the game from this

[Rossiboy]

A chainsaw is all you need! Cut the trees down at the lumber yard and push them into the lake! on average you get £10000 per tree. but you need something quite powerfull to push the trees. Or buy a telehandler with log fork attachment and a log trailer load it up then reverse the trailer into the lake! x

[Mod Sloth]

I usually buy a fertilizer spreader, upgrade my combine, then hold out for the RapidA sower and a tractor powerful enough to use it.

[John Kalel]

The First thing you need to buy is the Fertiliser spreader which you have done good!
I wouldnt bother with a larger combine yet i would buy more fields first.
so you could do the tree or solar panel thing as well or you could buy a mower and do missions with it.
The missions will pay for the mower pretty quickly then you can get a front mower which reduce mowing time and increase the time bonus :D
Then you should buy a loader and do some missions with that. they give you a good return on your money but are quite repetitive.
Also Wait until there is a demand for a crop before selling only chumps sell crop when it isnt in demand (i dont mean the missions dont bother doing the missions as they dont pay well unless a crop is indemand and there is a mission for it ..)


or just get the cheat mod and give your self all the money you want :D

[KayDawg13]

canola does sell for more per unit but you get higher yields for the other crops than you will for canola, so it pretty much averages out. I usually try to balance it out between wheat, barley, and canola. keep them stockpiled until there is a high demand and sell them off.
I usually wait to upgrade the combine until I can buy the biggest ones.
you can make good money from the lumberyard but make sure you trim the trees up, you will get paid less if they have branches on them still. you also make more money if you sell it at the sell point on the ground and even more money if you load it on the train cars and send it off. dumping into the pond pays the least, but it's an easy way to start it off.
first get a fertilizer spreader, then a combo sower cultivator, then a bigger tipper. anything that will speed up the turn around time on your fields.

[sonofori]

what i like to do is go to the bank take all the mony buy a solar panel place it down then wait 3 hours then youcan do that again and wait until you have enough mony to buy another do this until you have about 10 then wait and buy a windmill then repaet that and just keep buying windmills

[magicd1]

If you don't want to take a loan for solar panels you can start with bee hives and work up.

[_HotRod_]

As far as buying the beehives/solar panel/wind turbine, I figured up they all take about 28 game days to pay for themselves (on normal difficulty anyway.) So after that, they all are pure profit. I agree to always wait to sell until there's a demand for it somewhere, and doing the mower/loader missions pay for the equipment pretty quickly, but are very repetitive. Another possibility is getting a loader wagon, and picking up the straw left on a field of barley/wheat before cultivating, and unloading it to your barn. Is a bit time consuming as well, but (on normal, again) the smallest wagon, when full, gives over $1000, and usually you'll get several loads from a field.

[ArcaneGamer]

FAQ Check

• Currency type matters not in FS15: $ = £ = €
  
• Only sell crops for demand missions or when in great demand. Otherwise, store in your silo.
  
• Buy a T4.75 tractor, frontloader, log fork, pallet loader, weight and chainsaw. Now you can do pallet missions and forestry.
  
• Only cut the fir trees, because the others are a pain in the *donkey*. Cut off all branches and deliver the whole tree to the lumbermill.
  
• Vary your crop production. At the beginning, you can only grow wheat, barley and canola. Rotate between these, store in the silo, and wait it out until a great demand. I promise, it'll be worth the wait!
  
• Canola is double the price, but half the yield. It's overall yield to value ratio is almost the same as wheat and barley. The only advantage of growing canola is that you have less of it to handle per hectare. Just diversify by rotating between crops!
  
• Don't bother with straw, until you begin dairy farming. It's not worth your time.
  
• Don't bother with dairy farming, until you can make total mixed rations, unless you want to do something other than making silage for the biogas plant.
  
• You can start making silage on day one, even on hard difficulty. Besides the tractor you bought for pallet missions and forestry, also buy the universal bucket to go with it. Then buy a 330t loaderwagon and a FC 3525 F mower for your 6.61 or 6135a tractors. Don't use a tractor with less than 120hp for the mowing/foraging configuration. Gather grass and dump in a silo bunker at the biogas plant. You must fill to 10% (100k litres) and compact to 100% to be able to cover the bunker and ferment grass into silage. 1k silage sells for $1600 on normal difficulty. You can fill a bunker to 10% in less than an hour irl, but loading and dumping the silage into the receptacle will take some time.
  
• Even on hard difficulty, do yourself the favour of hiring workers whenever you can and focusing on other activities to make money. A four hectare field (about the size of the starting field on Westbridge) will probably take about 2-3 hours to harvest, cultivate, replant and fertilize. On hard difficulty, that's about $7k in wages. Spend $7k, which you will easily recoup from the selling of the harvest, and make $30-50k per hour from other activities, or waste 3-4hrs playing FS15 by just farming manually. You decide!
  
• Always fertilize your fields after sowing, but before harvesting. This will double your yields. Starting off, buy the ZA-M 1501 fertilizer spreader, the most cost effective and efficient way to fertilize until you start your dairy farm. After you have your dairy farm operating, use slurry.
  
• You can only plant tree saplings on fields you own.
  
• Don't be a monoculturalist. The game will become a grind, and you may lose profit over time due to price fluctuations. Diversify your farm to keep the game interesting and make the most for the time you put in.
  
• Don't do sheep for money. The profit is marginal and the least lucrative in game. Instead, just do it for the heck of it, and nothing else.
  
• Don't be the person who decides to make a money farm by exploiting game mechanics and time lapse to buy one hundred plus solar panels and wind turbines. You will get bored of FS15 very fast, but at least your will get some acheivements!

This list is based on my experience playing hard difficulty. If you have the extra capital, then go ahead and buy better equipment than what I suggested.

[Rev Counter]

I'd get into forestry or silage as fast as possible, as these are the real money makers :)

[ArcaneGamer]

Yeah, silage takes #1 until you can invest in dairy farming. Even then, it's probably best to do both dairy farming and biogas once you can afford the initial investment for total mixed rations.

Forestry is easy to get into and almost instantly pays off, though it's somewhat challenging for the inexperienced with beginner equipment. Hauling trees takes some practice and knowledge of a few techniques to be effective with cheap equipment.