I subscribed after hearing you're a father to 6. I'm a mother to 6 too. Plus on top of that love Farming Simulator, 😂 Your videos are great and very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you sir. I purposely keep them short and to the point. I can't stand when I have to wait 8 minutes through and intro before a video starts. Makes me nuts.
very interesting and useful video, on the back of this I did a little test myself. I harvested a field of canola with then without fertilising. I used field 14 of sosnovka and used the start up equipment and bought the cheapest sprayer. without fertilising it filled the trailer to 28%, with fertiliser it increased the yield and filled the trailer to 55%. hope this is useful....
+Ant Kitch Very helpful. I think from what I have read that fertilizer gives you 1.8x you non-fert yield, so that would be right in line with those numbers.
I would imagine it's in litres because density would change the weight of each crop carried in the vehicle, but each vehicle needed a fixed unit across all the crops for volume, and litre is a unit of volume. If not, a 21000 tipper for example would have a different value of weight depending on each crop, making the game more confusing
Thanks for doing this research. Been looking for some actual documented information. All this time, I was sticking with Canola crops thinking that it was the highest profit! Keep up the great work! AND, you have my subscriptions now! :D
I almost exclusively farm wheat and barley. I recently tried canola for the first time in months. I was thinking it didn’t seem to produce much. My tippers filled much quicker with wheat and barley. He’s got a point though. You don’t have to keep driving back and forth emptying them over and over.
Fantastic video, and many thanks for the tip about potatoes, I'd never heard of that either. If I had to guess I'd have said canola was the most lucrative, what an eye opener.
+ceegnz Its all about volume - Even though canola has the best sell price, you have to find out how much you will get from your field. Its better to have 20x as many potatos, even though they are only worth 1/3rd the price. You still come out 3x ahead :).
Much respect for your content. Love farming sim 15, can't wait until farming sim 17 in October! Keep up the good work, I'll be watching for your content in the future!
I am hooked on the farm simulator drug!!! lol thanks for the help I am debt free just by feeding the biogas plant :) working on building my equipment up for farming. I've got cows milking sheep bees and green house s :) thanks for the help !
if they did without doubt that be awesome and fans and players surely love that. I have one big problem through I seen all your vids and now I'm lost without some. :) hurry my friend more vids your amazing commentator and funny if I can I add. keep it up :)
very helpful channel. you are a farming god! I'm going for the platinum trophy on ps4 and you have helped quite a bit. I spent 18 hours setting up organic cow farm to fertilize my potato fields . accedently discovered that potatoes are the most cost effective crop.
i saw your video on silage, didn't know when it was published (very observant i know XD) so sorry about that! However, after seeing it i didn't no how i hadn't heard of you before seen as you are the only CZcamsr that actually makes me laugh! its really awesome how you take time to look after your family and job before youtube! i really hope you get the subscribers you are looking for and good luck for the future! - Tom
+john straub at first I did too. Canola is strong in one situation. If you want to let the harvester go and not keep having to unload him every 2 minutes. Canola's lower yield is perfect, but at the end of the day, you make more with Wheat and Barely.
+Arthur Chapman great vid. guess I'll start saving up for some new equipment if sugar beats/potatos are really the best. when I first started listening to youtube vids on the game, always sounded like canola was the best, so never really put the calculations into it.
+James b ironically canola is the worst. it's easiest to harvest but gives you far less yield. people look at its high sell price but don't factor in actual yield.
it really helped me because all i every did was silage and now a do a mixture of potatoes sugar beets and canola and wheat for the cows:) i really love your channel and hope to hope you do some tutorials on fs 17
Potato seed is not free. You have to figure in the loss of not selling them. Using your math the seed from your harvest is $894 and change. Leaving your final profit for potatoes to be $6294. Since you said sweet beets was $6650 that means sweet beets are still #1.
+blackdragon46819 Your idea doesn't work when you plant the potatoes you don't get the crop plus the seed. You lose the seed when you plant and harvest the new crop. Each time you plant seed from the previous crop losing that profit you would get from selling it. Yes there is no cost for the seed upfront, the cost is in not selling it. It's like planting an acre but using an 8th of it to seed next time. You are not selling the full acre you are only selling 7/8ths of the acre losing that 1/8th of money each time. Any other crop you would be selling the whole acre and buying seed for the next harvest. So not selling the potato seed is the same as buying it for the other crops. Sorry I'm late to respond but I only came across this again today.
Potatoes may be the best crop aas far as profit goes, but due to the small header on the harvester also the most labor intensive crop. That's why I prefer canola. When you sell it at the freight yard don't forget to send off the train for the bonus! :)
Yeah, canola is the least labor intensive. I will say that wheat and straw can be better though, because the straw can add several thousand additional dollars.
for the discussion made about measuring - everything measured in Volume because the tippers and all the harvesters tanks etc measured by volume. as its not practical to use weight because every product has different density and hence different weights will appear. also thank god the game using the metric system i really don't understand why there is still use of imperial system in the US hope it was helpful for those who still don't understand why the measuring happening in Volume :) cheers for Arthur doing great work on the channel :)
Want an easy way to calculate how much you're going to get from your crops? take however many liters and divide by 1,000 then multiply the price /t of crop... as an example, when Arthur sells 4893L of Barley at 732/t, take 4.893x732=3580.212 Only a dollar off, this works on any difficulty btw.
And the winner is!!!..... Grass! it grows twice a day turn it into silage and big booming price (PS: its a lot of work require seeding only once, cutting the grass with a mower, Then windmill the grass then harvest with a silage harvester. Drop the grass in the silage storage area. Compact it then cover it with the tarp. Wait half a day. Use a scooper and then drop it at the bioplant company.)
Very good video, you found an original way to find out what is the most valuable crop in the game, i am sick and tired of looking online for spreadsheets and when i go in the game lonely behold i make less money.
Alin Alyn546 Glad I could be of service. Its so close between Sugar Beets and Potatoes that you could grow either and make almost the same amount. But both crops are the best for sure.
Arthur Chapman Yeah the potatoes and beets are the best but they are so tedious and expensive, and take a long time to harvest especially on West Bridge
Alin Alyn546 Yeah, that is true. If you want to speed things up with beets, you can always use the Eurotiger mod harvester. It gets about 3 more rows than the stock beet harvesters, and costs about 150k less. www.modhub.us/farming-simulator-2015-mods/ropa-euro-tiger-set-v1-0/
Arthur Chapman I think that the best starting crop is either barley or wheat, for canola you need loads of land and fertilizer just to have a decent amount.
Loved the video. The only thing is in the end you state you can use your leftover potatoes to use for your next harvest and that they are therefore free. Actually, they would have value if you sold them. So, unless the price of the potatoes purchased for planting is higher than the sale value of your crop, you are actually losing money by using the leftover potatoes that you left in the storage bins. Purchased seed cost (in this case potatoes) vs end crop cost consideration. Not having tried potato farming yet, but I venture a guess that the cost of the potatoes for planting to make the crop isn't higher than the sale value of the crop per potato. If that was the case why not simply buy the potatoes for planting and simply take to the buyers, why bother planting them at all.
A couple of interesting questions and see if anyone can answer. (1) How big is a hectare compared to an acre? As we know an acre is 16 ft by one half of a mile. (2) How does a liter of wheat compare to a bushel (60 pounds in wheat) or a metric tonne (if I'm correct 2200 pounds or 1000 kgs)? Great video and I learned a few things I didn't know before such as the potatoes. I've been throwing my virtual money away. Who knew?
hey great videos. really has helped me immensely. I have a small question tho. when making your wagon train. why did you use the green lil one at the front, and the rest are finkles? Thank you again for your hard work. I hope to see ya back in the field again soon.
+Arthur Chapman wow amazingly quick response too! wasn't sure cause I heard with trains you couldn't plug more than 2 of the same type together. I wasn't sure why, but its proven wrong right here.
Philip King No prob! As long as the hitches are compatible, there is no limit. I had friends get over 100 TMK bulls hooked together. It kept getting stuck on stuff though lol.
great video. would be interesting to figure out the best profit per hour per crop. taking into account the extra time needed to harvest potatoes and beets and also the higher cost for the harvesters
Enjoyed this info just Got the game. Waiting for it to come in the mail. Played it at Friends house why he tried to fix my PC. Have to get few upgrades so I can play FS17. been been watching all your stuff on this FS15,
As of writing this I am your newest subscriber! And this is my second comment to your channel. I was deeply shocked when I heard about your Monsanto GM story, I can't believe how a company can get away with screwing the small farmers like that, it makes me so angry - they have made a corporate blight disease which you can't stop, utterly shocking. I am pleased here in the UK GM crops are currently banned. Anyway back to the topic in hand I am finding your tutorials very useful and money saving in game, and I hope you will review farming sim '17 when it is released. All the best Arthur.
From a standpoint of taking all the factors in aside from just seed/harvest. Factor in the equipment. You have an excessive amount of equipment for beets, potatoes which means you would be loosing you're ass compared to corn and other combine harvested crops.
Here is a tip for backing up trailers that have that have a swivel on the front axel ( like the agroliner ) just hook them up to the front of the tractor or use something with rear wheel steering it makes it a lot easier to steer the trailer while reversing it or you could do what he did and nudge it into place
I know this is an old video, but the train station actually sells for more than it says. Sending the train gives you (i think) x0.5 price for the goods :) so it wins most of the time on the things that sell there :) same for the lumber yard. Unloading to the train and sending it yeilds more than the selling it in the water ;)
Yes. - actually the train station, even when its lower is still better because you get paid 2x, so you make DOUBLE. The changed that in FS17 though, and it no longer works.
can you please make the same video for FS17? Seems like lumber and silage don't pay as well as they did in 15, so crop MVP is even more important now. Thanks for all the great content!
Its a hard video to make, because the way they have the crops setup now, there is no clear winner. It depends on the day, and what you sold last. So one day its potatoes, and the next its wheat.
Monsanto doesn't actually sue farmers. They also didn't GM so they could find out if farmers are using their seed. They modified them to increase yields, and help farmers. Also, farmers using GE seeds don't save seeds, they buy new ones anyway. Food Inc. is a terrible documentary, and Monsanto is not a bad company.
after some more research, I found that when farmers purchase seeds from Monsanto, any seed, not just GMOs, they sign an agreement saying they won't save and regrow seeds. Monsanto does not sure for inadvertent crosspolination.
Multiple things here I have some ideas on. First off, 54:00 that fruit type is more than likely soybeans rather than peas unless you know the mod specifically adds peas. Second, I do have an issue with the fact you actually dropped off all the fruits at wildly varying prices rather than just finding the average price for each fruit and doing a little math. Also, doing something like leaving game, restarting, and using the threshed and seeded area stats in the session statistics to find the field size would help be more accurate. Not positive, but I believe there's another variable related to field size that's being missed somewhere( for instance, if fertilizer increases yield by a percentage). And yes I'm aware this is nearly a year old video lol.
qwertypresser It was definitely a close one! I actually had to go back and redo the end of the video when I found out that Potatoes could be refilled for free. In a way that was good because it made for a surprise winner.
Thanks for the videos Arthur I was using that same seeding machine that you are using for the video and it started turning my planting field back to the natural land scape any idea why I'm playing on Xbox one any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks
If that happens you are probably planting grass - grass will return the field to the way it was at the start. You will have to plow the grass up using the "create fields" option on the plow to recover the field.
You have to take into account the time to sow and harvest. At the highest level of technology in the game Canola, Wheat, Corn, and Barley have much wider tools and can be planted/harvested faster.
+Drew1231 This is a very good point. You also can't control the market. I recently had a situation where the price of sugar beets dropped so low, that the gain in volume earned me about 10 percent over what it would have been if I had grown wheat.
Hi new to your ch I'm going to be starting to play farm simulator 15 I just have a question what one do you recommend for me to start with this one and then work my way up or what can you please help me out
I would say silage is the best - I have several tutorails on silage in the tutorial playlist for 15 - that can be found here - czcams.com/play/PLHOIp7_VO933nRFG_mTb7H-1rPEA0ZoRO.html
I have the same Q. Arthur you go through your mod crops in the beginning of this video so as a newbie on FS15 I started looking for mods for cotton etc. From what I can find it seems like the mod crops or multifruit comes with different mod maps? Can you get just the crops and add to the existing farms? Do you have a video on mod crops or can you make one?
Well, it is not EXACTLY a zero cost for potato seeds because your yield goes down by the amount of potato you save for planting. So, you had a 600 difference between potato and sweet beets, if the potato you save for planting drop your yield by more than 600 then the sweet beets are actually better
Jim Jasutis yep, and the fact that IF you choose the smaller "tractor driven" harvester, the sugar beet harvester can top and harvest in one pass, but the potato setup requires a top pass and then a collecting pass because it doesn't line up right. The big expensive harvesters are the same though, so there is no difference there.
You make the most at the freight yard, but it only takes grains. Sending the train off after dumping crops there adds a *ridiculous* percentage to your total.
@@Vbluguitar I meant as far as crops. It makes the highest price, no matter as far as where you sell if you opt out of doing silage. My brother will only mow for me for so long, no matter how much I'm willing to pay him.😂
On each farm (or at least on most farms) you will have a potato storage area with a loading conveyor belt. You will drive the sower under the other end of the conveyor and the taters will load right in.
Yup, and I would, except for 90 percent of the maps I play on are in Europe, so I just leave it. There is no conversion in the game for the money system, so 1 dollar = 1 Euro. The only thing it changes is MPH and KPH
While I agree, this is more a look at direct value of the crops themselves, not including peripherals. If we followed your line of thinking we could also include chaffing the straw for silage and selling it, but that is also outside the bounds of this test.
Its been even harder since my wife ran off with someone else... but at least they are all nice kids. I am pretty strict, but also kind and involved, so as my kids grow up we have good relationships. My two oldest sons (18-20) are also my closest friends.
On the Monsanto rant, you know that it's actually impossible for Monsanto to sue heritage farmers for their fields getting accidentally seeded right? The company sues based on the contract, if a farmer doesn't have a contract, Monsanto cannot sue them.
A liter is a measure of volume, not weight. Sure, a liter of water is one kilo, but a liter of potatoes isn't necessarily a kilo. Knowing only the volume of something you can't say anything about it's mass. You'd need the density of the material too
either way it goes, I make more money on canola then any other crop. once I make enough, I go straight to silage and that's where I make the big bucks. works every time for me. want me to show ya, you can add country3000 ps4. don't get me wrong but everyone has there own way. good video though
Mathematically Canola is worth 2x wheat, but produces less than 1/2 yield per acre, so it may "feel" like you are making more because the market price is higher, but unless you have a great demand, you are making less money than you would with wheat and barley. If you don't believe me, plant your field with wheat, harvest and sell it. Keep exact track of your income from the sales. The next day, use the same exact field and plant Canola. Compare it to your wheat sale. from the previous day. Mostly likely you will find (like I did in this video) that Canola has given you less money. Sometimes the market shifts, so this may not always be the case, but in general, you will almost always make less. The nice thing about Canola is that its easier to collect and transport as it has way less yield, so that can be a benefit, but from a strict "dollar per acre" formula, barley and wheat beat canola. Also wheat and barley leave straw which can be chaffed for silage and sold, so you get even better yields, but I left silage out of this video because its "different". If I get a PS4 eventually I will definitely add you! Happy farming.
+Arthur Chapman I know what ya mean but I tried both ways and still make money quicker with canola and then I go straight to silage. I tried with weather and it took me longer to get to silage but like I say, every one has there own opinion, right 😉
Sigh, Now you are going to make me make a video called wheat vs canola :) - I will post you a link when its done :) I am pretty sure wheat will win by a long shot, but maybe we will find that canola is better, hehe.
Arthur i believe that you missed a note , you are losing a bunch of profit by replanting the crops that would normally be profit!! But anyways nice vid!!
ThisIsChris Now that is a good point. So there is still a minimal cost (about 2000 to 6000 liters per seeder full). So in the long run it may end up being a neck and neck with Sugar beets. LOL RATS, now I have to do the whole thing over again...
If you do decide to redo the math can you say which actually won? I am just curious and don't want to rewatch the entire video again and write it all down LOL but again nice vid!
Clown MoDz Yeah, but they charge you almost double for the seed wen you do it that way. In the end it's up to you, but it's not wise to pay more when you don't have to.
Good calculations, but I think you over-looked something. When plants have grown, they still have 3 stages they can be in, and i guess the last one yields the most, but i'm not completely sure.
No, that's not what i meant. If you look in the PDA, you'll see that there are 3 different colors for the fully grown stage. 3 different shades of green.
Dami Bang Ah! I don't believe the yield is any different, buy that is interesting... I think it is to let you know how close to a withered crop you are getting (a sort of warning system if you will). But I will look into it. Sadly it probably doesn't make a difference - just like the way the game handles different fertilizers as working exactly the same, I doubt they bothered putting that level of detail into the game.
@@Vbluguitar i like the way you talk to your child and dont ignore her.(its also cute) Most people when streaming or doing videos ignore there kids and to me there ignorant. Im glad we have parents like you who treat everyone equally.
Yes - you can only harvest once they are at the "ready for harvest stage" and the 3 levels of "ready for harvest" don't give different yields. It just gives you time before they wither.
I subscribed after hearing you're a father to 6. I'm a mother to 6 too. Plus on top of that love Farming Simulator, 😂 Your videos are great and very helpful. Thank you!
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This is by far the best info video I've seen! Thank you very much for taking time to do this!!
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Thanks once again for another great vid. I enjoy having your YT channel playing on my second monitor while I play FS15.
Bob Beerbower Very glad to hear that you are enjoying it.
I love your intros, they are seemingly so simple, yet, they are PERFECT imo
Thank you sir. I purposely keep them short and to the point. I can't stand when I have to wait 8 minutes through and intro before a video starts. Makes me nuts.
Subbed! I can watch your vids all day lol. Very relaxing. Keep up the good work!
very interesting and useful video, on the back of this I did a little test myself. I harvested a field of canola with then without fertilising. I used field 14 of sosnovka and used the start up equipment and bought the cheapest sprayer. without fertilising it filled the trailer to 28%, with fertiliser it increased the yield and filled the trailer to 55%. hope this is useful....
+Ant Kitch Very helpful. I think from what I have read that fertilizer gives you 1.8x you non-fert yield, so that would be right in line with those numbers.
I would imagine it's in litres because density would change the weight of each crop carried in the vehicle, but each vehicle needed a fixed unit across all the crops for volume, and litre is a unit of volume. If not, a 21000 tipper for example would have a different value of weight depending on each crop, making the game more confusing
Love your videos man, your tutorials have really helped me in Farming sim
Zeus Glad to hear it Zeus, that is why I am here :)
Love your videos!! Your silage video really helped on my farm. Thank You!!
hehe Keep Farming Jason!
Wow. Thanks for taking the time to figure all of this out! Subscribed!
You are welcome Josh, and welcome!
Thanks for doing this research. Been looking for some actual documented information. All this time, I was sticking with Canola crops thinking that it was the highest profit! Keep up the great work! AND, you have my subscriptions now! :D
+ThePersistentNoob Welcome aboard Mr. Noob :) Glad to have you!
I almost exclusively farm wheat and barley. I recently tried canola for the first time in months.
I was thinking it didn’t seem to produce much. My tippers filled much quicker with wheat and barley.
He’s got a point though. You don’t have to keep driving back and forth emptying them over and over.
Fantastic video, and many thanks for the tip about potatoes, I'd never heard of that either. If I had to guess I'd have said canola was the most lucrative, what an eye opener.
+ceegnz Its all about volume - Even though canola has the best sell price, you have to find out how much you will get from your field. Its better to have 20x as many potatos, even though they are only worth 1/3rd the price. You still come out 3x ahead :).
I really respect your dedication too your fans and also your family keep it up man
Thank you Flowy!
Much respect for your content. Love farming sim 15, can't wait until farming sim 17 in October! Keep up the good work, I'll be watching for your content in the future!
Thank you LaTech. Glad you are enjoying the channel!
+Arthur Chapman can u harvest your corn with the first haverst
Aron Riddle Yes - you will need to buy the smallest corn header from capella. (the quasar, I believe).
Thank u I while try it out I while. Let u now how it goes thank u very much
Thank you very much for giving me tips and good ways of making big $$ . Enjoy listening to your videos.
+Chantal Couturier Glad to be of service Chantal!
I am hooked on the farm simulator drug!!! lol thanks for the help I am debt free just by feeding the biogas plant :) working on building my equipment up for farming. I've got cows milking sheep bees and green house s :) thanks for the help !
+Justin La Porte Glad to be of service Justin!
haha you call them radishes, I keep calling them rutabagas. I don't know why sweetbeets is so hard to remember, but I'm glad I'm not the only one.
hehe - that is so true.
if they did without doubt that be awesome and fans and players surely love that. I have one big problem through I seen all your vids and now I'm lost without some. :) hurry my friend more vids your amazing commentator and funny if I can I add. keep it up :)
very helpful channel. you are a farming god! I'm going for the platinum trophy on ps4 and you have helped quite a bit.
I spent 18 hours setting up organic cow farm to fertilize my potato fields . accedently discovered that potatoes are the most cost effective crop.
+Shawn Wax Hehe - its takes a long time to get it set up, doesn't it :)
+Arthur Chapman it really does. this games platinum trophy is a true test in patients and dedication lol
i saw your video on silage, didn't know when it was published (very observant i know XD) so sorry about that! However, after seeing it i didn't no how i hadn't heard of you before seen as you are the only CZcamsr that actually makes me laugh! its really awesome how you take time to look after your family and job before youtube! i really hope you get the subscribers you are looking for and good luck for the future! - Tom
NewCombine Thank you so much Tom! Glad you are enjoying my little circus :)
hahah yes! :)
I appreciate your videos. Thank you.
Glad to help Jerod!
Thank's Arthur for doing this, it helps a lot :)
+DJVoyagerXue You are welcome DJVX!
You are really helping me so mutch, you won't believe it
Glad to help it!
Hi Arthur, loving your 2015 tutorials .Waiting for 2023 so i can upgrade everything. Re subbed
Glad to hear it! It might be 2024 at this point - they just announced another year season pass for 22.
Very nice! Keep up the great videos!
R B Thank you RB!
love how fs15 is about to be a freaking decade old and it still looks brand new (imo)
Another great video and also very interesting :-) Thanks
Peter H. Thank you sir!
brilliant video buddy :-)
Great vid. Great explanation on the yield of crops. I kept drilling canola when i needed money from crops.
+john straub at first I did too. Canola is strong in one situation. If you want to let the harvester go and not keep having to unload him every 2 minutes. Canola's lower yield is perfect, but at the end of the day, you make more with Wheat and Barely.
Lol I hear you on the unloading.
+Arthur Chapman great vid. guess I'll start saving up for some new equipment if sugar beats/potatos are really the best. when I first started listening to youtube vids on the game, always sounded like canola was the best, so never really put the calculations into it.
+James b ironically canola is the worst. it's easiest to harvest but gives you far less yield. people look at its high sell price but don't factor in actual yield.
Congratulations. 2k followers to over 60k today. Amazing
Great video helped me learn a lot although it was quite a long video
hehe. I try my best to keep it short, and fail miserably. anyway, glad to be of service.
Great video!
Blake Rogers Thank you Blake!
it really helped me because all i every did was silage and now a do a mixture of potatoes sugar beets and canola and wheat for the cows:) i really love your channel and hope to hope you do some tutorials on fs 17
Hi Black - I will be for sure :)
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Potato seed is not free. You have to figure in the loss of not selling them. Using your math the seed from your harvest is $894 and change. Leaving your final profit for potatoes to be $6294. Since you said sweet beets was $6650 that means sweet beets are still #1.
Omg listen.....
actually they are. just dont sell off the ones at the farm when you start
+blackdragon46819 Your idea doesn't work when you plant the potatoes you don't get the crop plus the seed. You lose the seed when you plant and harvest the new crop. Each time you plant seed from the previous crop losing that profit you would get from selling it. Yes there is no cost for the seed upfront, the cost is in not selling it. It's like planting an acre but using an 8th of it to seed next time. You are not selling the full acre you are only selling 7/8ths of the acre losing that 1/8th of money each time. Any other crop you would be selling the whole acre and buying seed for the next harvest. So not selling the potato seed is the same as buying it for the other crops. Sorry I'm late to respond but I only came across this again today.
yes me too... Arthur your doing a good job friend
Great video as always!! Was just wondering what mod you were using to advance time so quickly?
+aarong311 Glad you enjoyed it! Here you go www.modhub.us/farming-simulator-2015-mods/timefastforward-for-ls15-v1-0/
Potatoes may be the best crop aas far as profit goes, but due to the small header on the harvester also the most labor intensive crop. That's why I prefer canola. When you sell it at the freight yard don't forget to send off the train for the bonus! :)
Yeah, canola is the least labor intensive. I will say that wheat and straw can be better though, because the straw can add several thousand additional dollars.
for the discussion made about measuring - everything measured in Volume because the tippers and all the harvesters tanks etc measured by volume. as its not practical to use weight because every product has different density and hence different weights will appear.
also thank god the game using the metric system
i really don't understand why there is still use of imperial system in the US
hope it was helpful for those who still don't understand why the measuring happening in Volume :)
cheers for Arthur doing great work on the channel :)
+Миша Д That was very helpful, and it makes sense. Thank you sir!
Great Video!!
+unit11k9 Thank you sir!
keep it up
Want an easy way to calculate how much you're going to get from your crops? take however many liters and divide by 1,000 then multiply the price /t of crop... as an example, when Arthur sells 4893L of Barley at 732/t, take 4.893x732=3580.212
Only a dollar off, this works on any difficulty btw.
AH! Thank you Zach!
I like all your videos they're awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+LT.Walls awesome :) Glad you are enjoying them LT.
And the winner is!!!..... Grass! it grows twice a day turn it into silage and big booming price (PS: its a lot of work require seeding only once, cutting the grass with a mower, Then windmill the grass then harvest with a silage harvester. Drop the grass in the silage storage area. Compact it then cover it with the tarp. Wait half a day. Use a scooper and then drop it at the bioplant company.)
Very good video, you found an original way to find out what is the most valuable crop in the game, i am sick and tired of looking online for spreadsheets and when i go in the game lonely behold i make less money.
Alin Alyn546 Glad I could be of service. Its so close between Sugar Beets and Potatoes that you could grow either and make almost the same amount. But both crops are the best for sure.
Arthur Chapman Yeah the potatoes and beets are the best but they are so tedious and expensive, and take a long time to harvest especially on West Bridge
Alin Alyn546 Yeah, that is true. If you want to speed things up with beets, you can always use the Eurotiger mod harvester. It gets about 3 more rows than the stock beet harvesters, and costs about 150k less. www.modhub.us/farming-simulator-2015-mods/ropa-euro-tiger-set-v1-0/
Arthur Chapman I think that the best starting crop is either barley or wheat, for canola you need loads of land and fertilizer just to have a decent amount.
Alin Alyn546 haha, or silage :) - but yeah, if you use the in game starter equipment, wheat is your best yield.
Loved the video. The only thing is in the end you state you can use your leftover potatoes to use for your next harvest and that they are therefore free. Actually, they would have value if you sold them. So, unless the price of the potatoes purchased for planting is higher than the sale value of your crop, you are actually losing money by using the leftover potatoes that you left in the storage bins.
Purchased seed cost (in this case potatoes) vs end crop cost consideration. Not having tried potato farming yet, but I venture a guess that the cost of the potatoes for planting to make the crop isn't higher than the sale value of the crop per potato.
If that was the case why not simply buy the potatoes for planting and simply take to the buyers, why bother planting them at all.
Well, that is definitely true, so you lose that income.
Uh oh you dropped your sick beets!
lol
A couple of interesting questions and see if anyone can answer.
(1) How big is a hectare compared to an acre? As we know an acre is 16 ft by one half of a mile.
(2) How does a liter of wheat compare to a bushel (60 pounds in wheat) or a metric tonne (if I'm correct 2200 pounds or 1000 kgs)?
Great video and I learned a few things I didn't know before such as the potatoes. I've been throwing my virtual money away. Who knew?
Stuart Mackey lol - the worst is buying equipment that you can't use or is wrong - there goes 30 percent of you v-money, gone like smoke vapors, lol.
hey great videos. really has helped me immensely.
I have a small question tho.
when making your wagon train. why did you use the green lil one at the front, and the rest are finkles? Thank you again for your hard work. I hope to see ya back in the field again soon.
+Philip King Hi Philip! Just random chance - I happened to have one so I grabbed it. :) Glad that I was able to help you!
+Arthur Chapman wow amazingly quick response too! wasn't sure cause I heard with trains you couldn't plug more than 2 of the same type together. I wasn't sure why, but its proven wrong right here.
Philip King No prob! As long as the hitches are compatible, there is no limit. I had friends get over 100 TMK bulls hooked together. It kept getting stuck on stuff though lol.
great video. would be interesting to figure out the best profit per hour per crop. taking into account the extra time needed to harvest potatoes and beets and also the higher cost for the harvesters
+Alex Chapman Yeah, they definitely take longer to harvest.
Enjoyed this info just Got the game. Waiting for it to come in the mail. Played it at Friends house why he tried to fix my PC. Have to get few upgrades so I can play FS17. been been watching all your stuff on this FS15,
15 still has a lot of life - while 17 is better, there is nothing wrong with 15 while waiting for a better PC :)
Been playing your vids as I play and try to get the hang of things.
love his singing 😂😂😂
haha - Thanks!
As of writing this I am your newest subscriber! And this is my second comment to your channel. I was deeply shocked when I heard about your Monsanto GM story, I can't believe how a company can get away with screwing the small farmers like that, it makes me so angry - they have made a corporate blight disease which you can't stop, utterly shocking. I am pleased here in the UK GM crops are currently banned. Anyway back to the topic in hand I am finding your tutorials very useful and money saving in game, and I hope you will review farming sim '17 when it is released. All the best Arthur.
+Thomas Bellamy Thank you Thomas and welcome to my channel! I sure will be upgraded when it hits :) I am looking forward to it for sure!
Everything he said about Monsanto was false. He was just parroting the misinformation generated by the organic industry.
From a standpoint of taking all the factors in aside from just seed/harvest. Factor in the equipment. You have an excessive amount of equipment for beets, potatoes which means you would be loosing you're ass compared to corn and other combine harvested crops.
crops are measured in Kg, as they are sold per metric ton or 1000kg
NO Corn, Barley and so on... Are all Measured in Liters. Yes Liters are in the Metric system. but All Crops are Liters my friend
Here is a tip for backing up trailers that have that have a swivel on the front axel ( like the agroliner ) just hook them up to the front of the tractor or use something with rear wheel steering it makes it a lot easier to steer the trailer while reversing it or you could do what he did and nudge it into place
That is a good method!
1. Potatoes
2. Sweet beets
3. Wheat
4. Barley
5. Canola
6. Corn
I know this is an old video, but the train station actually sells for more than it says. Sending the train gives you (i think) x0.5 price for the goods :) so it wins most of the time on the things that sell there :) same for the lumber yard. Unloading to the train and sending it yeilds more than the selling it in the water ;)
Yes. - actually the train station, even when its lower is still better because you get paid 2x, so you make DOUBLE. The changed that in FS17 though, and it no longer works.
For all of the tractors that are to big to hook up to certain tippers. You can hook a weight on the back and then hook up to the tipper.
Very true. Just too lazy to run down to the shop, lol.
can you please make the same video for FS17? Seems like lumber and silage don't pay as well as they did in 15, so crop MVP is even more important now. Thanks for all the great content!
Its a hard video to make, because the way they have the crops setup now, there is no clear winner. It depends on the day, and what you sold last. So one day its potatoes, and the next its wheat.
oh thanks! =)
Glad to help Chuckwagon!
this game looks really good for its time
I agree
Monsanto doesn't actually sue farmers. They also didn't GM so they could find out if farmers are using their seed. They modified them to increase yields, and help farmers. Also, farmers using GE seeds don't save seeds, they buy new ones anyway. Food Inc. is a terrible documentary, and Monsanto is not a bad company.
after some more research, I found that when farmers purchase seeds from Monsanto, any seed, not just GMOs, they sign an agreement saying they won't save and regrow seeds. Monsanto does not sure for inadvertent crosspolination.
Well, thank you Chris. That is good to know. And yes, they don't allow heritage seeds (saving seeds from your crops).
Arthur Chapman it's a topic I find quite interesting, love yoi videos by the way, even though I don't actually own FS 15.
If you do decide to play FS, be sure to get the 17 version. Its much improved.
sounds great pal. but with all the mods you use lol 300 I think you said :) plus the downfall I have ps4 no PC! unless you would play a ps4 series :)
OHHHH, Yeah, I don't have a PS4. They don't cross platform for Multiplayer. Bummer.
Multiple things here I have some ideas on. First off, 54:00 that fruit type is more than likely soybeans rather than peas unless you know the mod specifically adds peas. Second, I do have an issue with the fact you actually dropped off all the fruits at wildly varying prices rather than just finding the average price for each fruit and doing a little math. Also, doing something like leaving game, restarting, and using the threshed and seeded area stats in the session statistics to find the field size would help be more accurate. Not positive, but I believe there's another variable related to field size that's being missed somewhere( for instance, if fertilizer increases yield by a percentage). And yes I'm aware this is nearly a year old video lol.
Sweet Beets had their victory robbed from them! I demand a recount!
qwertypresser It was definitely a close one! I actually had to go back and redo the end of the video when I found out that Potatoes could be refilled for free. In a way that was good because it made for a surprise winner.
How to get money fast: Collect all coins sell canola on frieght yard when you can buy truck and tipper buy that sell all stuff in silo for best prizes
Thanks for the videos Arthur I was using that same seeding machine that you are using for the video and it started turning my planting field back to the natural land scape any idea why I'm playing on Xbox one any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks
If that happens you are probably planting grass - grass will return the field to the way it was at the start. You will have to plow the grass up using the "create fields" option on the plow to recover the field.
You have to take into account the time to sow and harvest. At the highest level of technology in the game Canola, Wheat, Corn, and Barley have much wider tools and can be planted/harvested faster.
+Drew1231 This is a very good point. You also can't control the market. I recently had a situation where the price of sugar beets dropped so low, that the gain in volume earned me about 10 percent over what it would have been if I had grown wheat.
Hi new to your ch I'm going to be starting to play farm simulator 15 I just have a question what one do you recommend for me to start with this one and then work my way up or what can you please help me out
I would say silage is the best - I have several tutorails on silage in the tutorial playlist for 15 - that can be found here - czcams.com/play/PLHOIp7_VO933nRFG_mTb7H-1rPEA0ZoRO.html
Where do you get the other seeds, sunflower etc? I've looked through the dlc on the website. Please let me know. Thanks
Are you maybe thinking of FS 17?
I have the same Q. Arthur you go through your mod crops in the beginning of this video so as a newbie on FS15 I started looking for mods for cotton etc. From what I can find it seems like the mod crops or multifruit comes with different mod maps? Can you get just the crops and add to the existing farms? Do you have a video on mod crops or can you make one?
Well, it is not EXACTLY a zero cost for potato seeds because your yield goes down by the amount of potato you save for planting. So, you had a 600 difference between potato and sweet beets, if the potato you save for planting drop your yield by more than 600 then the sweet beets are actually better
+Jim Jasutis True that - there is a cost. Between the two they are REALLY close.
+Arthur Chapman So it comes down to which of them you can load onto a train on a particular map.
Jim Jasutis
yep, and the fact that IF you choose the smaller "tractor driven" harvester, the sugar beet harvester can top and harvest in one pass, but the potato setup requires a top pass and then a collecting pass because it doesn't line up right. The big expensive harvesters are the same though, so there is no difference there.
Which mod did you get the different crops in the Horsch Pronto 28:59?
What is that time mod you're using?
This is great news if I wouldn't have gone out purchased all the land and got all but 3 fields done
well, there is always next crop lol
You make the most at the freight yard, but it only takes grains. Sending the train off after dumping crops there adds a *ridiculous* percentage to your total.
Yup, it doubles your income - Silage still make way more though.
@@Vbluguitar
I meant as far as crops. It makes the highest price, no matter as far as where you sell if you opt out of doing silage. My brother will only mow for me for so long, no matter how much I'm willing to pay him.😂
crops are in the USA anyway measured in bushels . it's weird they use metric system for measuring crop yield lol :)
+Justin La Porte in Europe yield is measured in either cubic meters per hectare OR in tons of dry mass per hectare, depending on the crop.
Ah ok.
Perhaps a silly question, but how do you load stored potatoes into sower? I can only load from seed pallets.
On each farm (or at least on most farms) you will have a potato storage area with a loading conveyor belt. You will drive the sower under the other end of the conveyor and the taters will load right in.
+Arthur Chapman Thank you! The simple things are what get you lol
hehe - IKR.
in your settings , you can change values to pounds and dollar's
Yup, and I would, except for 90 percent of the maps I play on are in Europe, so I just leave it. There is no conversion in the game for the money system, so 1 dollar = 1 Euro. The only thing it changes is MPH and KPH
Not bad for potatoes
Thx for loving my comment
If you have an auger wagon can you put potatoes in the planter with it?
hi Alex - I haven't tried that, but I would assume you can since the conveyor works the same way.
You forgot to include part of the income that you can get from selling the straw from the cereal crops. That is part of the harvest too.
While I agree, this is more a look at direct value of the crops themselves, not including peripherals. If we followed your line of thinking we could also include chaffing the straw for silage and selling it, but that is also outside the bounds of this test.
Six kids? That must be hard
Its been even harder since my wife ran off with someone else... but at least they are all nice kids. I am pretty strict, but also kind and involved, so as my kids grow up we have good relationships. My two oldest sons (18-20) are also my closest friends.
Ohh, im so sorry :(
Maybe you cod do a vid with 3 fields one with fertilizer one without. Also what about crop rotation?
Regards
Mick
Papa Smurf lol - what would I do with the 3rd?
Arthur Chapman I meant 2 fields, my finger slipped. (said the Bishop to the actress)
Canola is the best automated category. Much better player time productivity.
On the Monsanto rant, you know that it's actually impossible for Monsanto to sue heritage farmers for their fields getting accidentally seeded right? The company sues based on the contract, if a farmer doesn't have a contract, Monsanto cannot sue them.
Yeah, I have been correct several times on this (just read the other comments). Thank you for the clarification.
A Litre is infact a unit based on the Weight of fluid that makes up one Kilo, so litre and Kilo can be classed as the same weight.
A liter is a measure of volume, not weight. Sure, a liter of water is one kilo, but a liter of potatoes isn't necessarily a kilo. Knowing only the volume of something you can't say anything about it's mass. You'd need the density of the material too
This comment is so stupid. A Liter is not a kilo and a liter has nothing to do with weight
Hank Hill Damn it Bobby, a kilo and a liter is _not_ the same thing!
***** lol
I see, so a cubic decimeter and the Greek world for 1000 are functionally the same thing huh? The more you know...
14k subs now wow
IKR - :)
either way it goes, I make more money on canola then any other crop. once I make enough, I go straight to silage and that's where I make the big bucks. works every time for me. want me to show ya, you can add country3000 ps4. don't get me wrong but everyone has there own way. good video though
Mathematically Canola is worth 2x wheat, but produces less than 1/2 yield per acre, so it may "feel" like you are making more because the market price is higher, but unless you have a great demand, you are making less money than you would with wheat and barley. If you don't believe me, plant your field with wheat, harvest and sell it. Keep exact track of your income from the sales. The next day, use the same exact field and plant Canola. Compare it to your wheat sale. from the previous day. Mostly likely you will find (like I did in this video) that Canola has given you less money. Sometimes the market shifts, so this may not always be the case, but in general, you will almost always make less. The nice thing about Canola is that its easier to collect and transport as it has way less yield, so that can be a benefit, but from a strict "dollar per acre" formula, barley and wheat beat canola. Also wheat and barley leave straw which can be chaffed for silage and sold, so you get even better yields, but I left silage out of this video because its "different". If I get a PS4 eventually I will definitely add you! Happy farming.
+Arthur Chapman I know what ya mean but I tried both ways and still make money quicker with canola and then I go straight to silage. I tried with weather and it took me longer to get to silage but like I say, every one has there own opinion, right 😉
Sigh, Now you are going to make me make a video called wheat vs canola :) - I will post you a link when its done :) I am pretty sure wheat will win by a long shot, but maybe we will find that canola is better, hehe.
+Arthur Chapman 😉
Your gonna laugh at the video I made :) - I think you will like the results.
Arthur i believe that you missed a note , you are losing a bunch of profit by replanting the crops that would normally be profit!! But anyways nice vid!!
ThisIsChris Now that is a good point. So there is still a minimal cost (about 2000 to 6000 liters per seeder full). So in the long run it may end up being a neck and neck with Sugar beets. LOL RATS, now I have to do the whole thing over again...
Haha well more math, everyone's favorite headache!
If you do decide to redo the math can you say which actually won? I am just curious and don't want to rewatch the entire video again and write it all down LOL but again nice vid!
if you dont want to buy seeds take a seeder to a field and hire a worker you dont need to buy seeds when the seeder is empty
Clown MoDz Yeah, but they charge you almost double for the seed wen you do it that way. In the end it's up to you, but it's not wise to pay more when you don't have to.
hello ist funny
Pretty sure poppies would be ur MVC
Canola. Half the time. You can then grow twice as much. You do the math
How do you figure half the time? It takes the same time to grow, it's just a few minutes faster to harvest.
Can you do a worst or best mod video XD
Finding the worst is hard because there are SOOO many bad ones lol.
Good calculations, but I think you over-looked something. When plants have grown, they still have 3 stages they can be in, and i guess the last one yields the most, but i'm not completely sure.
+Dami Bang You can only harvest them in the final stage - You cannot harvest during the growing stages.
No, that's not what i meant. If you look in the PDA, you'll see that there are 3 different colors for the fully grown stage. 3 different shades of green.
Dami Bang Ah! I don't believe the yield is any different, buy that is interesting... I think it is to let you know how close to a withered crop you are getting (a sort of warning system if you will). But I will look into it. Sadly it probably doesn't make a difference - just like the way the game handles different fertilizers as working exactly the same, I doubt they bothered putting that level of detail into the game.
its funny you talk about 3k subs when you have almost 13k
I know, its crazy!
i subed
43 k now lol😂😂😂
@@Vbluguitar i like the way you talk to your child and dont ignore her.(its also cute) Most people when streaming or doing videos ignore there kids and to me there ignorant. Im glad we have parents like you who treat everyone equally.
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I'm almost playing farming sim 15
Almost what... lol
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did you harvest them all on the same growth stage?
Yes - you can only harvest once they are at the "ready for harvest stage" and the 3 levels of "ready for harvest" don't give different yields. It just gives you time before they wither.
oh ok wasnt sure if it improved yield or not