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Bring your harvester with the header (regular one is used for all crops except corn, use corn header instead) once header is attached to the front of the harvester, follow the controlls on the top right corner, you need to bring the header down and turn on.
Use "T" to toggle the perfect speed becuase the old harvester is leaky hehe
Right mouse button to check how full it gets, or game gives you message when its 95%,
look at top right control panel, press the button to make the chute pipe stick out. I usually drive the grain trailer right under the chute, then hop on the harvester and press the button that lets the grain drop. warning: save before filling grain trailer, Ive accidnetly dropped it all on the floor a few times.
takes like 3-4 times to fill trailer, check with Right mouse button for fullness, bring grain trailer to agriculture market (not the store, the one with huge silo's just west of oliver's farm), you just press the "dump" button on the part of the floor with grates behind the huge silo's
hope that helps, I had to look at Youtube for help my 1st time figuring it out, but after it's easy
When you drive your grain trailer under the disposal chute of the silo later on, it will give you a prompt to fill the trailer and you can then trundle off to sell it.
Make sure you only store one type of grain, (the Wheat for example), in the silo though. The Canola from the other field can go in the garage loft via that old rusty red metal chute on the side of the seed storage. You can then drive under the loft next to the garage to fill the trailer from there, it has a disposal chute in the ceiling for the grain above.
If you do it this way, you can leave the grain trailer until later.
Yes, right. But I'd recommend you to unload the grain somewhere (silo, storage in garage) and concentrate on harvesting the field. You can pickup your grain later and drive it to the selling points.
And be careful when unloading the grain from the harvester to the trailer. The unloading will not stop automatically if the trailer is full, so you need to stop that process yourself. You can avoid this if you don't fill the trailer up to its limit but rather unload it somewhere (e. g. sell the grain immediately or unload it into the silo or the other storage in your garage to keep it there and sell it later).
A few facts you maybe would like to know:
The price at the sell points is different (it changes from each day to the next). It is a constant up and down. It reaches a lowest price level at a certain time and then it's rising again until it meets a highest price level. So maybe you should store your grain first and watch the price to get the best profit.
At the old mill you'll always get a better price but only for wheat and barley (I think it was barley, could also be canola). It's quite a long way from your farm to the mill but the price is at a significant higher level compared to the common selling point so it's definitely worth to take the longer way and sell your grain there at the mill.
Beware that the garage can be a bit more fussy about the placement of the harvesters unloading pipe, make sure the end of the pipe is DIRECTLY over that red machine. Also, you can't go sideways onto the garage loader with the trailer, it has to be reversed in and reversing that grain trailer to make it go exactly where you want is a real nightmare, (it really could do with a grate beside it like the silo).
The mill takes only wheat and barley. Canola and anything else can only really be sold at the market, as far as I know these are the only two places you can sell your stuff, (we really need more choices).
The mill is nearly always the better choice for wheat and barley, even considering the abysmally slow speed of the Jack Bear, but it does change if you saturate the market when you have more fields. If you've just started out, you're a long way off that point.
I think this is something which everybody needs to decide based on personal liking. I (as an example) like it more to use the trailer. I usually place it close to the field which i'm actually working on and I quickly drive to the trailer with the harvester, unload the grain and continue harvesting. You can work much faster this way because
a) the way to the trailer is much shorter than the distance to silo or garage (especially if you buy additional fields which are located far away from your farm).
b) you don't need to fiddle around with the pipe to meet the unload trigger which is most fussy with the garage (as you mentioned).
I'm sorry, but this is wrong. You can go sideways with the trailer. You just need to make sure that the trailers rear end is lined up with the loader for the garage storage and you need to drive very close to the unloader.
And this is why I like it even more to unload to the trailer first and use that trailer to carry the grain to the silo or to the garage storage. It's simply quicker and less difficult.
But as I already said: this should be decided based on personal liking. You can't say in general that one way is always better than the other. Just my opinion. :)
As far as extra fields go, I use this method for ONLY the first two fields you get for the first harvest. You don't have the extra steps of filling the trailer and switching vehicles to empty it again and switching vehicles back to the combine again. It actually works out faster overall even with the slow speed of the combine.
Once I get extra fields, I use the grain trailer only because the combine is just far too slow over such a long distance.
1) Which grain is the better money maker? Wheat with bales or canola since it fills faster?
2) Should I buy a field first or animals & zucchini?
3) Are there any machines to buy that do both tilling and cultivating at once?
coming to your questions:
1) I'd suggest wheat for the best profit for several reasons:
2) I usually do a little bit of both. ;)
I recommend you to buy another field but also you should buy some seeds for your greenhouse. I suggest to grow only tomatoes in the first period (vegetables in the greenhouse need about 20 days to be ready for harvest). In your kitchen you can cook tomato soup which you can sell for a really good price. You also should get yourself a small amount of chicken (maybe 5 for a start) because you need to keep yourself alive and so you need something to eat. Collect the eggs every day and cook them to canned eggs. Eat what you need and sell the rest. For a start you should try to buy also 2-3 cows. Daily income with canned milk will be small first, but it's a constant income for you and of course you can also use the canned milk for feeding yourself.
3) I'm not even sure what you mean with "tilling" but it doesn't matter since there aren't any machines in the game which are capable to do two different kinds of fieldwork in one single step, so the answer is: no. ;)
To make it short and simple.
After harvesting both of the fields (+ storing a few bales in the cow stable), this is what I suggest to do:
For the following growing periods plant a balanced mix of all availabe vegetables (your wife will need all of them for cooking). And don't forget to collect all apples you can get.
In the first season it's hard to progress and most probably you'll not be able to buy more than one ore two small fields. But with each season your progress will become better.
1) I'll disagree with Capuzzi on wheat. Canola is the highest yielding crop (substantially more than wheat) and has a high sell point of about 1,114 and wheat's high point is about 691. If making money the fastest is the priority, I would plant nothing but canola. Plus, it's a shorter haul distance to the elevator, which saves much time, especially with the starting Jack Bear tractor.
2) A field will yield more money than greenhouse stuff even though it takes two months for a crop to grow and generally takes 2 weeks for vegetables. I know there is a thread on here comparing the yields and prices of the vegetables, but I'm pretty sure tomatoes have the best yield. They definitely have the best price. The high price point for the tomato soup is 14.59. I would only sell your greenhouse items, eggs, and milk the day you see John offering 14.59 for tomato soup. Also know that the whole economy, minus crop prices, are synced up, meaning when tomato soup is 14.59, the price for fields, machinery, and all items at the ag store, are also at their highest. Only buy at the low point. The market will be at its lowest when tomato soup sells for 9.73. You will save many thousands buying low and selling high. Eggs are very efficient at collecting and profitable. Buy all 10 chickens--they're cheap. When I was in the early stages of the game, I made sure to collect eggs, then slept to get to the next day if the fields didn't need tending to. You may find collecting milk isn't worth your time at some point. Geese, ducks and pigeons are worthless in the game, though something different to look at. You get virtually nothing for their eggs since you can't cook them at the present time. They're cheap, though, so why not add them to the farm.
3) I believe both drills are no-till, meaning they'll seed directly into a harvested field, however the highest yield requires plowing and cultivating. I can't stand plowing and always hire that out.
You didn't ask, but it's worth noting that the new combine (and a bigger trailer), should be one of the first machine purchases. Not only will harvest be much faster, but it saves considerably more grain than the old combine.
Strange... In all my games the yield of wheat was always more than canola. On the same field I got about 30% more wheat at harvest compared with canola. Are you sure about the better yield of canola?
This is right and that's exactly why I recommended to plant the greenhouse full with tomatoes as soon as possible. When you start a new game and when you're finished harvesting your field you won't get any new fruits from the fields until the next season which will be in april. But in the remaining time in the current season you can harvest your greenhouse twice which will give you a decent amount of money.
If you only count the profit from selling the milk you're right. But you should keep in mind that the wife needs milk for several recipes which she'll be cooking. I admit this is only a few items but over time they'll give you good extra money for doing literally nothing.
At some time it was said in the tipps which are showed during the game start sequence that you are safe to seed the winter grain until 20th of september. I myself succeded with that even at 26th september, other people in the forum complained about vanished grain in spring which had been seeded at a date when it should be safe... So - I'd suggest to seed about the middle of september. But don't shoot me if it doesn't work. ;)
Edit:
V2200 was a little faster than me. ;)
But it seems this should be right as both of us agree in general. :)